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Jose Mourinho jokes about poaching Steven Gerrard

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he鈥檚 鈥渘ot happy鈥 Liverpool player Steven Gerrard is leaving at the end of the season.

鈥淚鈥檓 not happy he leaves, I would love the Premier League to keep hold of the best players and I think he has more than those qualities to play in the Premier League.鈥

When 5 live鈥檚 Juliette Ferrington suggested 鈥渉aving a word鈥 with the Liverpool midfielder to get him to stay, 鈥淥r to get him on loan?鈥 replied Mourinho.

Liverpool fought from 1-0 down to draw 1-1 with Chelsea in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Capital One Cup and will face Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday 27th January.

Mourinho said 鈥淲e didn鈥檛 test because we lost lots of passes after recovering the ball. Because of that, we couldn鈥檛 be more dangerous.鈥

This clip is from 5 live Sport on Tuesday 20th January 2015.

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