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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah and Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne both benefited from leaving Chelsea(Image: PA Archive/PA Images)

Mohamed Salah and Kevin De Bruyne are today hailed as two of the Premier League's all-time greats thanks to their spectacular careers with Liverpool and Manchester City.

It's hard to fathom that they both once played for rivals Chelsea and could have been teammates, but the west London club would live to regret the fact that their talents only truly shone after they left Stamford Bridge.

Sky Sport Italia reported this week that the pair could finally unite this summer, with Liverpool said to have made an offer for De Bruyne, whose City contract expires at the end of the season.



Salah, much like City rival De Bruyne, would become increasingly frustrated under the Portuguese boss and finally left Chelsea in August 2016 for Roma after two loan spells in Serie A.

Mourinho, who now manages Fenerbahce, has come under scrutiny over the years for his failure to harness the potential of two generational talents.

Newton says both were “more than good enough” to make it at Chelsea, as shown by their incredible achievements in the Premier League since.

Mohamed Salah left Chelsea in search of game time (Image: GETTY)

“For me, I think Salah and De Bruyne wasn’t about talent,” Newton said in an interview with Goal.

But that’s the same for a lot of players.

Mourinho said De Bruyne was like a "kid who couldn't wait"(Image: Getty)

“I think it’s just because it’s the same manager and it’s both of us in the same season who are going well that people are talking about it, but I think every manager will have had a lot of players who were not suited with each other who went away and did well afterwards.

“Maybe a lot of people are picking up on it now, today, but I’m not really that type of person who thinks about that.

It’s just the way it goes, in life, in football.”

Two-time Premier League Player of the Season De Bruyne, who turns 34 in June, is still in high demand as he prepares to leave City with six league titles under his belt.
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