Jose Mourinho reveals the truth behind the release of Mohamed Salah in Chelsea

Jose Mourinho insists that it was Chelsea, not him, who decided to sell Mohamed Salah after he could not give him the minutes he needed at Stamford Bridge.

The Portuguese signed Salah from Basel in January 2014 after the Egyptian was impressed in two Champions League group matches against Chelsea.

Salah felt the fierce competition of Eden Hazard and Willian for a starting point, but only participated in 19 participations under Mourinho before being loaned to Fiorentina and Roma.

The move to Rome became permanent in 2015 after Mourinho publicly declared that he saw Salah's future "elsewhere" and even went so far as to say that it was "better to do not have Salah back ".

Since he's been sacked by Chelsea, Mourinho has changed his tone and reminded the world that he's the one who bought Salah and that's the club that decided to sell him. .

"Many things have been said that are not true," he told beIN SPORTS. "People are trying to identify me with the coach who sold Salah, I'm the coach who bought Salah.It's completely a bad idea."

"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. from this kid.I bought the kid I pushed the club to buy it and, at the time, we already had fantastic attacking players – [Eden] Hazard, Willian – we had the best talent there. But I said to buy this kid.

"He was more of a winger than a striker like he is now, he was just a kid in London, he was a kid in a new world and we wanted to help him become a kid. better and better and was more in the idea that he wanted to play and not wait.

"So we decided to put it on loan.To put it on loan on a crop I knew well – Italy, tactical football, physical football, a good place to play.Fiorentina is a good team without Being a team with tremendous pressure playing for the title and we decided to move there.

"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 I think he does not regret this move because everything went well Everything went well for him and the progression went well for him, but at that moment, he was just a child who wanted to play every week, every minute and we could not give it to him. "