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Roberto Mancini is through coaching Inter Milan — 10 days after leading the club to its third consecutive Serie A title.

While neither Mancini nor Inter has announced an official move, Mancini’s agent Giorgio De Giorgis confirmed the coach’s departure. “Unfortunately it has happened,” De Giorgis told Italy’s Sky TV on Wednesday. “The president had this idea to change, I don’t know what the reason was, but it’s over now and there’s no going back. Did Mancini expect it? No, certainly not.”

Mancini and Inter president Massimo Moratti met for 25 minutes Tuesday afternoon, but neither one spoke to the press after the encounter.

Reached by telephone Wednesday afternoon, Inter’s press office said it had no official announcement to make — for now.

Former Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho is being tapped to replace Mancini, with rumors also swirling that Mancini could fill Chelsea’s coaching void, although De Giorgis denied that possibility.

“There has never been any [contact] between him and Chelsea,” De Giorgis said.

Mourinho left Chelsea suddenly in September, having led the club to two Premier League titles in a row after the Blues had gone without the domestic title for half a century.

The self-proclaimed “Special One” has reportedly been studying Italian for months.

“I can’t wait to start,” Mourinho was quoted as saying in Wednesday’s Gazzetta dello Sport, which speculated that the Portuguese coach could help Inter land Chelsea stars Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard, with Portugal players Deco and Ricardo Quaresma other market targets.

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