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Jose Mourinho says Real Madrid should get good fee for Nuri Sahin after Liverpool loan

Image: Nuri Sahin: Set to be sold by Real Madrid at the end of his loan spell with Liverpool

Jose Mourinho believes Nuri Sahin's loan spell at Liverpool will help Real Madrid get a larger transfer fee when the Spanish club go on to sell him.

Mourinho then launched another attack on old foe Jorge Valdano claiming that the former Real Madrid director had no idea who he was signing while at the club. "If we are going to do some analysis then the president and the director general will confirm it and agree," the Portuguese continued. "Nobody here knew who Khedira was. The person charged, hypothetically, with this [Valdano] did not know who Khedira was. I can say that for sure.

Didn't know

"They did not know that Khedira was in the last year of his contract and could have joined us very cheaply. "Neither was it known that Ozil had problems with Werder Bremen. We paid €15million." When Mourinho took over at Madrid he wanted Valdano to be ousted and won that battle early on in order to be given unprecedented control over the ins and outs of his squad. One player that Mourinho did flop on was Turkish star Hamit Altintop, but he is still proud of a deal that saw the player arrive for free and move on for €3.5million after a year and four appearances to Galatasaray. "Then there is Altintop. Was a failure in sporting terms but he was an economic success. We signed him for nothing and he came here with an injury. That is not my fault," he added. "I do not do the medical exams, but he was then sold for a good fee."