Chelsea hero John Obi Mikel has recalled when Jose Mourinho reduced former teammate Mohamed Salah to tears.

Mikel has revealed that Salah felt the full wrath of Mourinho during a "bad game" for Chelsea against Norwich in 2014, which left him visibly emotional in the dressing room.

The former Blues midfielder told Dubai Eye: "I think [Salah] was having a bad game and then obviously Mourinho came in and ripped into him, massively ripped into him."

When asked if he ever expected Liverpool star Salah to go on and become a top player, Mikel said: "No. He was in tears, and what happened is [Mourinho] didn't let him back onto the pitch in the second half. He took him off.

"It would have been easy to just take him off and say 'you're not playing well, off you go, sit down, you're not going back onto the pitch'. But he ripped into him and took him off."