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Furious Jose Mourinho blames Chelsea for selling Mo Salah
Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists he is not blame for the Egyptian failing to make the grade at Stamford Bridge.
Salah has named the PFA Player of the Year after a stunning campaign at Liverpool having scored 43 goals in competitions.
Salah wasn’t the first player who was underestimated by Mourinho as Kevin De Bruyne also left the club for the same reason. However, current Manchester United boss blames the club’s hierarchy.
‘It is the first time that I am going to say this, but it is another injustice that has been talked about me. People say that I was the one that sold Salah and it is the opposite. I bought Salah,’ he told ESPN Brasil. ‘It is the opposite. I was the one that bought Salah. I was the one that told Chelsea to buy Salah. It was with me in charge that Salah came to Chelsea.
‘But he came as a young kid, physically he was not ready, mentally he was not ready, socially and culturally he was lost and everything was tough for him.
‘We decided to put him on loan and he asked for that as well. He wanted to play more minutes, to mature, he wanted to go and we sent him on loan to Fiorentina, and at Fiorentina he started to mature. Chelsea decided to sell him, OK? ‘And when they say that I was the one that sold him it is a lie. I bought him. I agreed to send him on loan, I thought it was necessary, I thought that Chelsea had wingers… Some of them are still there like Willian, [Eden] Hazard and all those players already in a different level.
‘So the decision to send him on loan was a decision we made collectively, but after that, the decision to sell him and to use that money to buy another player wasn’t mine.
‘But effectively I did buy Salah, I didn’t sell Salah, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is that he is a fantastic player, and I am really happy for everything that is happening for him and especially because he scores against everyone and he didn’t score against us in two games,’ Mourinho said.
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