"I fell in love with this kid" – Jose Mourinho rejects the idea that Mohamed Salah would have failed in Chelsea



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Jose Mourinho talked about Mohamed Salah's time in Chelsea.

Salah has impressed Liverpool since arriving in June 2017, scoring 61 goals in 82 games.

But his stint in English football has not always been easy. Salah was signed by Mourinho in Chelsea in January 2014, but experienced difficulties at Stamford Bridge before being loaned in February a year later.

Salah would leave London in August 2016, making only 19 appearances for Chelsea.

And Mourinho explained why it did not work for the Egyptian, who is the top scorer in the Premier League this season with 14 goals in Chelsea.

"When the club decided to sell it, it was not me, I bought it, I did not sell it and my relations with it were good, good," he said. he entrusted to BEIN SPORTS.

"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. "

"Many things have been said that are not true.Men try to identify me to the coach who sold Salah, I am the coach who bought Salah." completely a bad idea.



Mohamed Salah during his days in Chelsea

"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.

"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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