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The left-back became the best-paid teenager in football after joining Manchester United in a £30 million deal, and the Portuguese suggests the sums would have disrupted his squad
Jose Mourinho has insisted signing Luke Shaw would have "killed" Chelsea's finances and prompted unrest in the squad.

The 19-year-old joined Manchester United for €37.5 million in June, with the club making him the highest-paid teenager in the world with a €200,000-a-week salary.

Goal understands Chelsea pulled out of the race to sign Shaw when they became aware of the wages on offer from United, with Mourinho adding that such a salary would have angered other squad members.

"To pay a 19-year-old boy what we were being asked for, for Luke Shaw, we are dead," he told reporters. "We would have killed our stability with financial fair play, and killed the stability in our dressing room.

"Because when you pay that much to a 19-year-old kid - a good player, fantastic player - but when you pay that amount of money, the next day we would have had players knocking on our door.

"They would have been saying 'How is it possible I play 200 games for this club, won this and that, yet a 19-year-old comes here and gets more money than I get?'

"It would've killed immediately our balance, and we couldn't allow that."

With Ashley Cole leaving the squad following the expiry of his contract, Chelsea moved quickly to sign Filipe Luis from Atletico Madrid for around €20m - a deal Mourinho feels represents better value for money.

He continued: "I don't criticise another club for paying it. They can pay what they want. I don't have any comment about it.

"But for my club we can say it would be very negative for us, especially when we can say Felipe is much less expensive.

"Filipe played for Brazil, won titles in Spain, won European competitions, played in the Champions League final. Yet this guy is much cheaper than an English young lad.

"And is he good for our average wages? Yes he is. Sometimes you have to make decisions."

The Ivory Coast international, who won ten trophies in his first spell at Chelsea from 2004 and 2012, was a free agent after leaving Galatsaray.

Reports had suggest the 36-year-old was weighing up his chances and opportunities, with manager Jose Mourinho saying the forward “belongs” at the club he left after scoring the winning penalty in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 2012.

“It was an easy decision – I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to work with Jose again,” he told the club’s website.

“Everyone knows the special relationship I have with this club and it has always felt like home to me.

“My desire to win is still the same and I look forward to the opportunity to help this team. I am excited for this next chapter of my career.”

Jose Mourinho said: “He’s coming because he’s one of the best strikers in Europe. I know his personality very well and I know if he comes back he’s not protected by history or what he’s done for this club previously. He is coming with the mentality to make more history.”

He scored a total of 157 goals in 342 appearances in his previous eight-year stay at Stamford Bridge and was voted Chelsea’s greatest ever player in a poll of fans in 2012.

His 34 goals in European competition remains a Chelsea record, as do his nine strikes in nine cup finals.

Having joined Chelsea from Olympique des Marseille for £24m in July 2004, and went on to win three Premier League titles, Four FA Cups, two League Cups and a Champions League.

After quitting the ‘Blues’, he had a brief spell at Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua, before joining Turkish League outfit Galatasaray in January 2013 and scored five goals in 13 league games as the Istanbul club won the title.

He netted 10 times in 32 matches as Gala reached the last 8 of the Champions League- where they were knocked out by Chelsea- and finished runners-up to Fenerbache in the league.

The former Caf Player of the Year has been named in Ivory Coast’s squad in all three of the nation’s World Cup appearances, taking his caps total to 104 with 64 goals scored.

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With the World Cup now well and truly over, our attention returns to the Premier League and the summer transfer window. There have been a number colossal deals so far - Cesc Fabregas, Alexis Sanchez and Luis Suarez to name but three - and there seems no sign of the elite clubs holding back in the market.

With the likes of Diego Costa, Filipe Luis, Arturo Vidal, Toni Kroos, Paul Pogba and Sami Khedira all supposedly available, it really is a race to see who can snap up which superstar the fastest.

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