Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has revealed Kevin De Bruyne left the club because he couldn't cope with the competitive nature of the Blues' squad.
The Belgian was sold after failing to make an impression, despite being marked as one of the sport's top developing talents. Speaking with regards to his Stamford Bridge tenure and after a successful season with Wolfsburg, De Bruyne claimed "it's difficult to prove yourself if nobody can watch you," per Sky Sports.
Mourinho thinks it's wrong of the player to indicate he wasn't given opportunities. De Bruyne accumulated two starts and one place on the bench across Chelsea's opening four games in 2013-14, before admitting he couldn't deal with rotation, according to Mourinho, per Rob Draper of the Daily Mail:
I wanted to keep him and he told me that it was not in his personality to be competing for a position in the team.