I Didn’t Push Salah And De Bruyne Out Of Chelsea – Mourinho

Roma manager, Jose Mourinho has come out to share why Mohamed Salah and Kevin De Bruyne were sold when he was Chelsea manager. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he sanctioned their sale at the time because they were acting like kids and refusing to wait until they got their chances to regularly play for Chelsea football club.

Mourinho added that history has proven that they were right to leave, but it does not mean players shouldn’t be more patient in situations like that.

His words, “To be honest, they left because they wanted to leave. They left because they didn’t want to wait. History proves that their option was good because they’ve had the careers they have and reached a high standard, but sometimes kids make decisions like that because they can’t wait, or they don’t have the patience to be calm and to wait for the right moment. Sometimes their career goes in the wrong direction.

With Kevin, it was very similar. We went to pre-season in Asia. We went to Indonesia, Thailand, and Kevin was due to go on loan to a German side. I told the club ‘no, I don’t want him out on loan, I want him with me’. He stayed with me, and he began the Premier League season playing in the starting XI. After that, we played the European Super Cup in Prague against Bayern and he didn’t play that game. Then, the next day, he wants to leave. We played the second Premier League game of the season against Manchester United at Old Trafford and we drew 0-0. He was on the bench and he played some minutes, but it wasn’t enough for him, so he wanted to leave. When you are at Chelsea and you want to leave, go and another one comes. They were just kids who couldn’t wait, and their careers say they were right, but it wasn’t down to me. Probably other guys will say I pushed them out, but not them.”