Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has admitted he didn’t have the final say when it came to the signing of former Nantes defender Papy Djilobodji.
Speaking to the assembled press on Friday ahead of the Blues’ trip to Everton, Mourinho revealed that the defender was signed on the say-so of a figure he trusts, insisting he didn’t have time to run the rule over the Senegalese centre-back, per Jacob Murtagh of the Daily Mirror:
It was not my choice. It was the choice of someone I trust completely, which is the same.