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Game is up for Inter after Champions League journey ends in bitter humiliation

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Inter were thrashed 5 -0 by Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final.

Many of their fans were weeping uncontrollably in the stands, in the concourses, all along the road that leads back to the Métro station.

The age and weariness of this squad we knew about, this we knew too.

But rarely have any club, in a match of this magnitude, found their idea so violently shattered.

Inter did not just lose a final here; they lost a piece of themselves.

The rebuild will be long, painful and fitful. The investment fund owner, Oaktree Capital , is operating a trimmer, more sustainable youth-focused model. Inzaghi may well end up in Saudi Arabia before long. Inter are now a small fish, feeding in a pond of nation states and super-marques. And now they will have to reinvent themselves in the shadow of one of their greatest humiliations. If ever a night encapsulated their new, smaller place in the world, it was this..

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52

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49

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informal

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English

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33

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