Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has said he only twice spoke to Jose Mourinho during his six-month spell under the Portuguese at Chelsea.
In a revealing interview with The Premier League Show (viaChris Burtonfor Goal), De Bruyne described his relationship with the now-Manchester United manager as "distant," and that both of the times he spoke to Mourinho were requests to switch clubs.
"I only spoke with him twice," he said. "That's when I wanted to leave to [move to Borussia] Dortmund at the beginning of the summer, and the second meeting I just said: 'For me it's better to go.