'I felt Alexis was a sad man' - Mourinho lifts the lid on why Sanchez flopped

Jose Mourinho has described Alexis Sanchez as a 'sad man' as the former Manchester United boss discussed his relationship with the Chilean.


Mourinho bought Sanchez from Arsenal in January 2018, as part of a swap deal for Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but under-performed at Old Trafford, scoring just five goals in 45 appearances.

'Sanchez… I felt him [to be] not a happy man,' said Mourinho.

'And I think in every job you have when you are not happy it is not so easy to perform at every level. And maybe I am wrong. Maybe it was me who was not capable to get into him and to get the best out of him.

'As a manager sometimes you have the capacity to get the best out of the players and other times you are not successful in that approach.

'But the reality is that I always felt [of Sanchez], ‘a sad man’. So probably in Italy he will recover this. I hope he can. I always wish well to every player.'