Was Jose Mourinho wrong to offload Kevin De Bruyne from Chelsea? Most Blues fans would say yes but the Portuguese tactician believes selling Kevin to Wolfsburg was the right thing to do.
When first rumours of Man City being interested in De Bruyne appeared, Mourinho said, as cited by Sky Sports: "With De Bruyne, if you have a player knocking on your door and crying every day he wants to leave, you have to make a decision.
"At that time, Chelsea did well. If De Bruyne stayed here, not happy and not motivated, and we'd sold him after a year, we'd have got less - 50 per cent less than we sold him for.
"But, if he was at Chelsea and not at Wolfsburg, he wouldn't have reached this level. It was like a wall, a block. He was not ready to compete. He was an upset kid, training very badly."
The Blues sold De Bruyne to Wolfsburg for £18m in 2014. The Belgian returned to the Premier League a season and a half to join Man City and is still considered one of the best midfielders in Europe.
