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10th January 2018
07:49am GMT

"He said he was on a pilgrimage in Africa or somewhere and he had a voodoo and he got the message that he needs to go to Chelsea."
"The issue with Romelu was not financial. As long as I am major shareholder financial issues are irrelevant. I wasted two summers to keep him: first summer with his agent, him and his family we managed to keep him. Last summer we offered him a better deal than Chelsea, whatever they offered we matched but he just didn't want to stay. If I tell you what we offered him you wouldn't believe it but they offered him a better deal."
"Ultimately we lost money. To buy Rom now would be 120-million. The issue was his brain had gone. He was in LA (with Pogba) and he wouldn't come back. It happens. Alex Ferguson got another year out of (Cristiano) Ronaldo but then he was off. (Luis) Suarez had to bite a few players to get off."
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