Jose Mourinho defends Chelsea's revolving door business

With Kevin De Bruyne set to enhance Manchester City’s forward line, there’s also an interesting line to be drawn from the Belgian attacker’s departure from Chelsea through to the present: Jose Mourinho initially sold De Bruyne to sign Mohamed Salah and complement Andre Schurrle, and then sold Schurrle and loaned out Salah to sign Juan Cuadrado.

Now, the likelihood is that Cuadrado will be moved on, as Pedro has been brought in to keep up with a City side that thrashed Chelsea 3-0 last week.

It doesn’t look like the best business from that perspective. Yet Mourinho insisted these moves do not represent mistakes in the transfer market — and that the initial De Bruyne decision was correct due to his situation when he was at Stamford Bridge.