Filipe Luis has ennobled his former teammates Eden Hazard and Mohamed Salah. The ex-Chelsea pros are still in his memory today.
The former Brazilian international Filipe Luis did an interview with the English newspaper The Guardian remembered his involvement with Chelsea and raved about his former teammates Eden Hazard (Real Madrid) and Mohamed Salah (Liverpool).
“Next to Neymar, Eden is the best I have ever played with. He is at eye level with Messi, wins games single-handedly,” said Luis, ennobling the Belgian international, who has scored over 100 goals in seven years at Chelsea and the 2015 together with Luis had won the English championship.
However, Hazard was not always the most professional player: “He didn’t run a lot to defend, didn’t train well, and five minutes before games he played Mario Kart in the dressing room. He trained and warmed up without looking at it Tying shoelaces, “revealed Luis.
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“But when he went out, nobody could take the ball away from him. Maybe he lacks the ambition to say: ‘I’ll be the best in the world’ because he could be,” said the 35-year-old, who after just one season at Chelsea returned to his old place of work, Atletico Madrid.
Ex-Chelsea player Luis raves about Salah: “He was like Messi in training”
That was also due to the then Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho. Luis said: “It may look like we fell out, but I admire Mourinho. I won the Premier League with him. But he didn’t get the best out of me, just like he didn’t do with Salah. “
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Luis holds great things on his former teammates to this day: “Nobody could see that Salah is that good, right? Wrong. I suffered against him in training,” said the central defender, who explained: “When he went to Fiorentina, I asked, ‘Why are you leaving Momo? This is Chelsea.’ And he said, ‘I have to play.’ “
Despite impressive performance in training, Salah did not get the chance to regularly present himself on the big stage: “He never went for the money or to win more. He went to show that he can play. He was in training like Messi. Really, like Messi. Ask anyone. “
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