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Jose Mourinho rejected the idea that he would have made a mistake selling Mohamed Salah to Chelsea, claiming that it was not him who sanctioned the transfer.
Salah joined the Blues in January 2014 but was unable to settle in London at age 21, while he was struggling to join the team within the US. usual team at Stamford Bridge.
After borrowing from Fiorentina and Roma, Salah finally joined the Giallorossi permanently in 2016, after just 19 matches for Chelsea.
He returned to the Premier League with Liverpool in 2017 and became one of the best strikers in the world with a breathtaking season that allowed him to score 44 times in all competitions.
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Thirty-two of those 44 were cashed in the Premier League to see Salah become the record scorer for a 38-game season in the high-flying silhouette and the Egyptian goals also helped the Reds qualify for the final of the Champions League.
Salah continued this season with 17 points to help the Reds reach the top of the Premier League with a four-point lead.
Mourinho, who was sacked from the Manchester United manager position last month, dismissed Salah 's remarks, whose lack of adaptation was due to his leadership, saying he was keen to keep the job. Egyptian International.
"When the club decided to sell it, it was not me, I bought it, I did not sell it, and my relationship with it was good, it was well, "Mourinho told beIN SPORTS.
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"I think he does not regret it because everything went well." Everything went well for him and the progression went well for him, but at that moment there he was more than a kid with a huge desire to play every week, every minute. " and we could not give it to him.
"I played against Basel in the Champions League." Salah was a kid in Basel. "When I play against a certain team, I badyze the team and the players for quite a long time and I fell in love with it. of this kid.I bought the kid.
"I pushed the club to buy it and, at the time, we already had some fantastic attacking players – [Eden] Hazard, Willian – we had the best talent there. But I said [Chelsea] to buy this kid.
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"It was more of a wingman coming in than a striker like he is now.
"He was just a lost kid in London, he was a lost child in a new world and we wanted to help him get better and better, but he was more concerned with playing and not waiting.
"So we decided to put it on loan, to do it in a culture I knew well – Italy, tactical football, physical football, good place to play, Fiorentina is a good team, without being a team with enormous pressure. for the title and we decided to move there. "
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