One of the most recycled football stories in the past decade is Chelsea letting go massive talents of Romelu Lukaku, Mohamed Salah and Kevin De Bruyne and the never-ending ‘what if’ that follows the narrative.When it comes to the last mentioned, somewhere along the way a rumour settled that Mourinho didn’t want or didn’t need De Bruyne at Stamford Bridge and gladly let him go to Bundesliga in 2014.At the moment, Mourinho is waiting for the pre-season with Roma to start and until then he is working as a spokesman for talkSPORT. What a commodity for football lovers that is, because – as everyone already knows – Jose is full of interesting stories and his way of looking at things is all but mundane.Lukaku was young and had a lot to prove at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea legend remembersHis last one that caught the attention of all who follow the game is about Kevin De Bruyne and his departure from London.The Special One stated that is was not his decision for the Belgian to leave Chelsea for Wolfsburg – Mourinho reveals Belgium star ‘wanted to leave’ and ‘didn’t have the patience’ to wait for his chance with the Blues.In two years at Stamford Bridge, super-creative midfielder made nine appearances only for Chelsea and was sent on loan at German side Werder Bremen. Then in 2014, he was sold to Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg in a 25 million (2.7 billion KSH) deal. Just year later, he signed for Manchester City priced 72 million USD (almost 8 billion KSH).Rudiger hopes his romance with Chelsea will blossomChelsea fans never understood letting a player of De Bruyne’s caliber go and Mourinho, who managed Blues at the time, revealed that he did not want to see De Bruyne leave the club. Since then, the 29-year-old became one of the best players in the world – earlier this month, Belgian won the Premier League’s PFA Player of the Year for the second successive year. ‘He impressed me so much I made the decision I don’t want this kid to go on loan, I want him to stay, and in our first match of the Premier League season he started against Hull City,’ Mourinho told talkSPORT.’In the second match we got to Old Trafford and after this he come to me and said, “I want to play every match, I want to play every minute”. He put a lot of pressure on that.##EDITORS_CHOICE##’He wanted to leave, he wanted to go to Germany where he was previously on loan and so happy, and his decision was to go. He put big pressure on that and it worked very well for him.’The story is there and the quality of the player is absolute, he is top five in the world.’De Bruyne was not prepared to wait for his opportunity to make an impact at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho added.Apart from personal accomplishments, De Bruyne has won three Premier League trophies, five League Cups and the FA Cup in six years with Manchester City. ‘When he was supposed to leave on loan and I made the decision for him to stay, I saw those qualities. He did not have the experience and maturity he has now, but his feet and his vision was already there,’ he continued.Mourinho on Hazard – ‘Awful’ in training, would be far better if he was a ‘top professional”He knew very well what he wanted and he was not ready to have that season at Chelsea where a lot of good players were in the same team, he didn’t have the patience.’He was not ready for that, he was coming from a season in Germany where he was playing every minute of every match.’Sometimes us coaches make mistakes, but that was not the case. I saw he had the potential to do it, but he just knew perfectly well what he wanted.’Sure, all three players sharpened their current skill set elsewhere and there are no guarantees that they would perform at Chelsea as they are right now or as they did in the meantime.It remains for the supporters of the London Blues to wonder the goals, victories and trophies this trio would bring to Stamford Bridge, led by the Belgian midfielder.
