Chelsea
manager Jose Mourinho has verbally agreed a two-year extension to his
contract, according to reports in Wednesday's newspapers.
The 52-year-old guided the Blues to a first Premier League title in five
years following their 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace on Sunday and looks
set to be rewarded with a bumper new deal which will keep him at the club
until 2019.
Mourinho is halfway through a four-year contract which was signed on his
return to Stamford Bridge in June 2013 having won two Premier League titles
in his first spell as manager - including in 2005, Chelsea's first
championship in 50 years - before departing after little more than three
years.
Since his return to west London after a six-and-a-half-year absence, the
Portuguese has often spoken of his desire to stay as long as owner Roman
Abramovich wishes to keep him.
Mourinho repeated that after the win over Palace, which secured Chelsea's
first title since 2009-10 and the eighth of his career.
"As I was saying since the beginning of the season, I stay here until Mr
Abramovich wants me to stay. The day he tells me to go, I go," he said.
Mourinho left Chelsea in September 2007 and spent two seasons as Inter Milan
boss, before moving to Real Madrid for three seasons in 2010 and then
rejoining the Blues.
Prior to the Capital One Cup final victory over Tottenham on March 1,
Mourinho revealed he would consider moving to another English club if he
left Chelsea, where he wishes to stay for the remainder of his career.
"I don't want to go away. I will stay here in this chair until Mr Abramovich
tells me 'Jose, it's enough'," Mourinho said on February 27.
"If one day he tells me 'Jose it's enough', I will go to my house in London
and I wait for another English club.
"When I left the first time, I had lots of countries to go to and lots of
clubs to go to.
"In this moment when I leave, I have another 19 clubs in the Premier League
and 22 clubs in the Championship. So the options are not so much.
"But I repeat I am in Mr Abramovich's hands. Until he wants me to stay, I
will stay - and that is what I want.
"I am not thinking about leaving, I want to stay at Chelsea for the rest of
my career."
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