Former Manchester United Coach Jose Mourinho has dismissed suggestions that it was his decision to sell Mohamed Salah while at Chelsea.

The Egyptian endured a tough campaign at Stamford Bridge, leaving the club on loan twice before being sold to AS Roma.

Salah returned to the Premier League with Liverpool in 2017 and has broken a number of records in his first season at the club.

He has also won the African Player Of The Year Award in 2017 and 2018 consecutively.

However, Jose Mourinho has said he did not want Salah to leave Chelsea but bought him for the club.

"Lots of things have been told that are not true," he told beIN SPORTS.

"People try to identify me with the coach that sold Salah; I am the coach that bought Salah. It's completely the wrong idea.

"I played against Basel in the Champions League. Salah was a kid in Basel. When I play against a certain team, I analyse the team and the players for quite a long time and I fell in love with that kid.

"I bought the kid. I pushed the club to buy him and, at the time, we already had fantastic attacking players - [Eden] Hazard, Willian - we had top talent there. But I told to buy that kid.

"He was more a winger coming inside more than a striker like he is now. He was just a lost kid in London.

"He was a lost kid in a new world and we wanted to work him to become better and better and better but he was more in the idea that he wanted to play and not to wait.

"So we decided to put him on loan. To put him on loan on a culture thatI knew well - Italy, tactical football, physical football, good place to play. Fiorentina is a good team without being a team with huge pressure playing for the title and wedecided that move there.

"When the club decided to sell him, it was not me. I bought him, I didn't sell him, and my relationship with him was good, is good."

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