Jose Mourinho says he never wanted to sell Mohamed Salah while he was manager of Chelsea.

The Egyptian has took the Premier League by storm since joining Liverpool from Roma in the summer of 2017, having bagged 44 goals in his debut campaign.

He was sold by Chelsea after fleeting appearances for the first-team. But Mourinho has revealed it was the club's decision to part with the pacy attacker.

"First of all let's start with Salah. Because lots of things have been told which are not true," he explained to BeIN Sports.

"For a start people try to identify me as 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 at Basel. When I play against a certain team I analyse a team and 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 - Hazard, Willian, we had top talent there. But I told them to buy that kid. He was more a winger coming inside than a striker."