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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists that he is ready to stay for another ten years at the club if asked to. The Portuguese also raised concerns about the lack of British coaches in the English Premier League.
Mourinho’s job at the helm of the club has been under a lot of speculation as the defending champions have had a torrid season thus far in the league. They have faced defeat in more than half of the 15 matches they have played this term and lie just one point off the relegation zone. However, the flamboyant Blues manager reiterated his desire to continue with the club as long as the board and owner instruct him to.
“If Chelsea gives me a 10-year contract, I sign,” the Portuguese told reporters.
“I'm saying that the normal situation is when you have a contract, you wish to go to the end of the contract.”
The ex-Real Madrid coach was linked with a move back to the Santiago Bernabeu after reports emerged that Florentino Perez is still fond of the 52-year old’s managerial skills and wants to reinstate him as the club’s manager. However, after Chelsea’s champions league win against Porto, Mourinho himself failed to rule out a move but insisted that he will see out his contract with Chelsea.
“I imagine myself finishing my contract with Chelsea,” he told a news conference.
“I have three-and-a-half years left. After that I imagine myself coaching, I don't say every club, because there are some I would say always no, but I imagine myself coaching any club.”
Premier League too easy for foreign managers: Mourinho
The Portuguese showcased his concerns towards the lack of British managers in the Premier League and stated that the league is “too easy” for the foreign managers as of now. Gary Monk recently became another British manager to be sacked after he was asked to leave Swansea City on Thursday.
“I think [when he first arrived at Chelsea in 2004] the Premier League was quite a closed space for foreign managers and to come here was not easy,” Mourinho insisted.
“To come here you had to do something serious.”
“I remember I said something like that when I first came here, that I think I did enough to deserve to be here. You come to the No. 1 country in European football, to the No. 1 championship and you feel you have to deserve to be here. I think in this moment it's too easy.”
“In this moment the number of foreign coaches in the Premier League, even in the Championship and maybe in League One, I don't know, is too big compared with the number of British managers. Yes, I speak against myself but I think it's too easy.”
