FABIO CAPELLO is definitely going to leave Real Madrid and return to coach AC Milan at the end of the season, according to two rival Italian club presidents yesterday.
Lazio's Sergio Cragnotti, speaking after an unsuccessful bid to tempt Capello to take over from current interim coach Dino Zoff, told the Corriere dello Sport: "There was nothing to be done. I realised that Capello is going back to Milan."
Inter's Massimo Moralli, who needs someone to take over from Blackburn-bound Roy Hodgson at the end of the season, meanwhile answered claims by AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi that Capello "will never go to Inter."
Moratti told the Gazzetta dello Sport: "That means he will be coaching Milan. Berlusconi knows full well that anything can happen in football, even the impossible. So if he's talking like that, it means that he's already got a contract in his hands."
Capello, who guided Milan to four Italian league titles and one European Cup triumph in his five seasons in charge, is denying any return to Italy and insists he wants to win the European Cup with Real in 1998.