Internazionale coach Roberto Mancini has announced he will leave the club at the end of the season.

Mancini made his plans public on Tuesday evening after watching his team crash out of the Champions League at the hands of Liverpool.

Fernando Torres' goal saw the Serie A leaders go down 1-0 to Rafael Benitez's team at the San Siro to seal a 3-0 aggregate defeat.

The 43-year-old, who joined Inter in 2004 and led the club to back-to-back Serie A titles in 2006 and 2007, announced his news at the post-match press conference before a question had been asked.

"The next two and a half months will be my last as the coach of the squad," he said.

"I have already told the players and it is only natural now to announce it to everybody. It's a decision that I had already made and it is not due to tonight's defeat."

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