Mohamed Salah could not hold back the tears as he was on the receiving end of a vitriolic dressing-down from Jose Mourinho, former Chelsea teammate John Obi Mikel has recalled.
The Liverpool winger, 30, is regarded as one of the best forwards in the world thanks to his prolific five-and-a-half seasons at Anfield, but things were very different during his time with the Blues. Salah spent an ineffectual two-and-a-half years on the books at Stamford Bridge, scoring just twice in 19 appearances in all competitions.
He joined from Basel for £11million in January 2014 and a challenging first half-season at Chelsea was followed by loan spells at Fiorentina and Roma before he joined the latter permanently in 2016. Salah has made no secret of how hard he found it to adapt to life in the Premier League nearly a decade ago, and his task was made no easier by Mourinho's brutal approach to management.
