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17-01-2019 | 22:21 • Football
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Jose Mourinho explains why he sold Salah
Jose Mourinho says people don't understand the situation of Mohamed Salah in Chelsea several years ago. Egypt international has completed a move from Basel to London, but was sold to Fiorentina, as Portuguese manager was not satisfied with his performances.
Salah has returned to Premier League after several seasons in Serie A and became one of the best player in the world. He has scored 32 goals in EPL to set a new record last season.
Mourinho says he was the manager who bought Salah, not the manager, who sod him.
"Let me start with Salah, because lots of things have been told that are not true," Mourinho said on beIN SPORTS (via ESPN). "People try to identify me as the coach that sold Salah.
"I am the coach that bought Salah, so it is completely the wrong idea. I played against Basel in the Champions League and Salah was a kid in Basel. When I play against a certain team, I analyse the players for a long time and I fell in love with that kid.
"I bought the kid, I pushed the club to buy him and we already had fantastic attacking players like Hazard, Willian. Top talent, but I told them to buy that kid."
"He was just a lost kid in London, a lost kid in a new world," Mourinho said. "We wanted to work him to become better and better, but he wanted to play and not wait.
"So we put him on loan in Italy -- technical, physical football -- a good place to play. Fiorentina had no pressure to win a title, but when the club decided to sell him, it was not me.
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