Mohamed Salah on the substitute bench for José Mourinho (Getty Images)

Few remember Mohammad Salah there Kevin De Bruyne they played in chelsea. Two of the best footballers of recent years arrived at the blue team as promising youngsters, but they could never adapt to the team’s coach at the time, José Mourinho, and for this reason, they quickly left the institution. Now a footballer from this team has told what happened between these two current Premier League figures and the Portuguese.

Nigerian former footballer Jean Obi Mikel talked to the program Eye of Dubai and recalled an episode that forever marked the Egyptian footballer who now shines in Liverpool. It was during a duel against Norwich during the 2014 season that the coach got angry with him for his performance: “I think (Salah) was having a bad game and obviously Mourinho came in and attacked him. I was crying, and what happened was that (Mourinho) didn’t let him back on the pitch in the second half. It would have been easy to take him out and say ‘you’re not playing well, go ahead, sit down, you’re not going back on the pitch’. But he tore it up and took it off”.

salah was only a year chelsea in 2014 and was part of the team that won the Premier League, despite only playing 10 games. Coming from Basel in Switzerland, the African was unable to adapt to Mourinho’s game and after 19 games and two goals he went to Fiorentina.

Something similar happened with Kevin De Bruyne, who landed at Stamford Bridge in 2013 and barely played nine games before heading to Wolfsburg. “Kevin was always a mischievous guy, he was always lonely, he was always in a bad mood, he was always in a bad mood. You could never get anything out of him. But now when I see him play…what a joy . What a joy to see,” he said. Obi Mikel.

In this second period of Mourinho In chelseaAfter his brilliant first spell in which he was a double Premier League champion, the Portuguese coach was unable to sign young talents such as Salah, De Bruyne and Lukaku, who went on to become stars even in this same league. . Obi Mikel He is still surprised: “What they have become now, the best players in the world, it’s incredible to see. They became physically stronger, they became faster. I don’t know what happened to them!”

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