Jose Mourinho claimed Arsenal star was an all-time great and nearly signed him for Barcelona

Jose Mourinho, Chelsea director and former Manchester United, admitted that he was “inch” away from the signature of a player who will become “great” in Arsenal.

Mourinho is already one of the best presidents who was there ever, as he has a lot of success and winning a major prize with FC Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Man UTD and ROMA.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo described Mourinho as the best work manager with him ever in 2015, saying: “I would like to put it at the top, and I always say it. He is a good coach, he has done a lot of good things and won many other clubs’ prizes.”

During his career, the Portuguese tactic benefited from the world of football with some wonderful quotes and moments of touch, and gold has also hit many players in the transportation market.

The best signatures of Jose Mourinho in the pictures

From the defensive stars in Chelsea in Ashley Cole and Peter Check to attack the symbols in Samuel Ito and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, there were many prominent names that Mourinho convinced to join him in the years.

However, one of Mourinho’s employees was close in the first days of his training career with Thierry Henry, who would have become the icon of Arsenal.

Mourinho and Robson signed Henry on Barcelona almost

Now Arsenal top scorer after an unforgettable talisman for eight years in northern London, Henry was signed from Juventus in 1999.

He won the HighBury Premier League title and raised the FA Cup on three occasions, as he decreased as one of the best players who saw the journey ever.

Juventus did not only have the French striker for months before selling it to the defenders, and they signed it from Monaco.

It was possible that it was very different, with Mourinho’s disclosure in 2014, during his period as an assistant director of Barcelona to Sir Bobby Robson, the Catalan giants were “inch” away from Henry’s signature from Monaco.

Henry would face Mourinho on many occasions but never worked during the era of the Portuguese president, who described Henry as “one of the greats at all.”