Kevin de Bruyne barely spoke to Jose Mourinho during their time together with Chelsea.

De Bruyne made just three Premier League appearances in two years with Chelsea and spent a season on loan with Werder Bremen.

"I would say distant," De Bruyne told The Premier League Show when asked about his relationship with Mourinho.

"I'm not really somebody who speaks a lot with coaches if a coach wants to speak with you, then you just you do it. He is the boss, you can be good with each other but still there's a distance between a coach and a player.

"I only spoke with him twice -- when I wanted to leave to [Borussia] Dortmund at the beginning of the summer and the second meeting I just said for me it's better to go, I want to play football."

De Bruyne joined Wolfsburg in 2014 and was sold to Manchester City for £55 million after Chelsea sold him for only £18 million.

De Bruyne chose City over Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.

"I felt the way City were chasing after me, the plan with all the people coming in, I thought for me, the probability of the type of football I can play, it would suit me the best," he added.