Mourinho on Salah future-'he can't leave'

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho
has dismissed talk that
Mohamed Salah is set to leave
the club during the January
transfer window.
Salah was signed from Basel in
the corresponding window last year, but has found regular
first-team opportunities hard to come by with the likes of
Eden Hazard, Willian and Oscar all ahead of him in the
pecking order at Stamford Bridge.
In almost a year in west London, Salah has made just 13
Premier League appearances and Besiktas are understood
to be keen on acquiring the Egypt international, with the
Turkish club's president Fikret Orman recently confirming
he was in talks with Chelsea chiefs over a possible deal for
a mystery player, understood to be Salah.
"I was in England and held talks with Chelsea but it would
be wrong to disclose who the negotiations were
regarding," he is quoted as saying by the Daily Star .
Salah was an unused substitute for Chelsea's 5-0
hammering of Swansea City on Saturday, but Mourinho
later refuted any suggestions that Salah would be allowed
to move on.
"He can't leave, I have 20 players today with Didier
[Drogba] a bit ill and [Cesar] Azpilicueta injured," the
manager said.
"I had all my players here today, just [Nathan] Ake in the
stands.
"I have a very short squad, I need everybody. For Salah to
leave someone has to come, and I don't think we are going
to let Salah go on loan and then spend some money to
bring somebody else in.
"So I don't think so, unless my club comes to me and says
Salah goes on loan and we are going to buy a €65 million
player."
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