pato became world class, nesta back from injury, nesta silva partnership, ronaldinho showing flashes of his former brilliance once in a while, and oh yeah, we sold ibra who was better than kaka at that time and still is
and what about juve? the only reason they suck now is because of injuries and because they are being compared to us
saying we didn't improve since mourinho came is just ignorant and shows how someone's judgement can be clouded by personal preference, compare inter - liverpool and inter - manchester a year later, we were by far the worse team against liverpool but against manchester ( who are a much better team btw ) nobody would have said that we didn't deserve to go through had those two shots gone in instead of hit the woodwork, and i'd also like to add that those were the same squads except mourinho's squad was a year older and had more dead weight