Mourinho insists 'every player has a price' over Sterling's ongoing contract battle at Liverpool

With Raheem Sterling's ongoing contract wrangle at Liverpool, Chelsea football team manager Jose Mourinho has said that every player has a price.

Mourinho claimed that he understands Liverpool boss Brendon Rodgers' stance that Sterling would not be sold, but he insisted that he doesn't like players that do not want to play for him and his club.

Chelsea is among the clubs linked with the England forward after he rejected a 1,00,000 pounds-a-week contract, the BBC reported.

Mourinho said striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sold to Barcelona when he was Inter Milan boss after asking to join the Spanish club. He pointed out that every player has a price and it doesn't matter which player.

Mourinho said that for example, currently Eden Hazard has signed a new contract and he doesn't want him to leave Chelsea, but he pointed out that if the Belgian midfielder wants to leave, and if he doesn't want to work with him, then he does have a price.

Sterling has two years left on a contract worth 35,000 pounds-a-week and Mourinho added that he also understands the philosophy of managers and clubs who want to keep the players at any price, who want just to say that there is no price to sell and the player stays, whatever.

But, the Portuguese pointed out that his philosophy is not better than that, it's just different, adding that either way, when a player has a contract with a club, the club, the manager and the board have the power to decide what to do.