“[Jose] Mourinho is a great manager. All the players would like to work with him, and if it happened to me I’d love it. But it’s on my club I need to keep focused. I have to give everything here for things to happen. If I don’t, they won’t happen.

“The English league is where every player wants to play. I think it would be a good league for me.

“But, as I said, it’s here in Turkey, at Galatasaray, where I have to show the quality if I want to get to the other side.”