Udinese coach Andrea Stramaccioni is pleased to count on No2 Dejan Stankovic.

Stankovic joined Stramaccioni's backroom team last year.

He has been linked with a return to Inter Milan, but Stramaccioni says: "I trained and I know him as a man, even when I was with Inter, I told them I wanted him as an assistant.

"When I was proposed the idea of joining Udinese I immediately thought of him.

"We have an excellent relationship."