During the 1961–62 season Football Club Internazionale Milano competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
Summary
During summer oil tycoon and President Angelo Moratti[1] in his 7th campaign as chairman transferred in several players to reinforce the club such as: Welsh forward Gerry Hitchens from Aston Villa[2][3] and Spanish midfielder Luis Suarez from FC Barcelona after paid 25 million Spanish pesetas (£152,000).[4]
Hitchens arrived to the team after a failed bid on Scottish Forward Denis Law who moved to Torino for a fee of £110,000,[note 1] (a record fee for a transfer involving a British player)[5][6] included claims by Internazionale that he had signed a pre-contract agreement with them, although they dropped this claim before the season started.
The club finished in 2nd place just 5 points below of league Champions AC Milan. In Coppa Italia the team was early eliminated by Novara in Eightfinals. In the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup the squad advanced to the quarterfinals and lost the series to Valencia CF.
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Note: Internazionale goalkeeper Lorenzo Buffon complained of an injury at halftime and was replaced by Ottavio Bugatti, substitutions were not officially allowed at the time.
^This was roughly equivalent to £1.65 million at 2004 values, according to the retail price conversion utilityArchived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine at measuringworth.com.
