Jose Mourinho says he always felt Alexis Sanchez was a 'sad man' during his time at Manchester United.
Chilean international Sanchez arrived at United in the January transfer window of last year as Mourinho's side chased rivals Manchester City in their hunt for the Premier League title.
Sanchez's arrival did not have the desired impact and he departed Old Trafford on-loan this summer, eight months after Mourinho had himself been dismissed by the club.
Speaking about the high-profile transfer of Sanchez the former United manager says he never felt the forward was truly happy at the club, but admitted he might have been partly to blame for failing to utilise his talents properly.
“Sanchez… I felt him [to be] not a happy man," Mourinho told The Telegraph.
"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.”
