Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho ready to look at long-term stay in order to develop squad and build Stamford Bridge dynasty
- Manager Jose Mourinho is poised to break his record for length of service
- Mourinho has never completed a fourth season at any of his seven clubs
- However, Mourinho wants to create a Chelsea dynasty with new deal
- Though, he admits he doesn't expect to match Sir Alex Ferguson's record
Jose Mourinho says he wants to stay at Chelsea to develop the current team and build a dynasty, even though he does not expect to match the managerial longevity of Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger.
Chelsea are ready to give Mourinho a two-year extension to his four-year deal, which runs outs in 2017, after he secured the Premier League title last weekend to add to the Capital One Cup.
And Mourinho's second spell at the club has been devoid of the political wrangles and infighting that sullied his first stint at Stamford Bridge, meaning that he is poised to break his record for length of service.
Jose Mourinho is set to sign a new two-year deal after guiding Chelsea to the Premier League title
Mourinho, 52, has never completed a fourth season at any of the seven clubs for which he has worked since 2000, the longest spell being his first employment at Chelsea which lasted three years and four months.
But the Portuguese, whose family are settled in London, is ready to look longer term at Chelsea, even if he concedes he will never match Sir Alex's 27 years at Manchester United or Wenger's 19 years and counting at Arsenal.
'It is impossible in modern football,' said Mourinho. 'I think Arsene Wenger will be the last. In modern football with everything that surrounds it, it's very difficult for that to happen.'
Mourinho returned to Chelsea in 2013 for a second spell in charge of the west London club
However, Mourinho is determined to stay longer this time to see this new team grow. 'That's what I want. I didn't say it at Inter because I didn't want to. I didn't stay at Real because I didn't want to. I want to stay here. That is why I say I am in Mr Abramovich's hands.
'He has no pressure. He doesn't need to give me a contract tomorrow, he doesn't need to give me more money. He doesn't need to be worried that some club is knocking on my door, he doesn't have to be worried with anything. When he wants me, I am staying. When he doesn't want me, I am going. So simple for him, so simple for me.
Mourinho feels he has unfinished business at the club after his abrupt departure in September 2007, after which Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Carlo Ancelotti, Andre Villas Boas, Roberto Di Matteo and Rafael Benitez all had stints at the helm.
'I want to develop this team,' said Mourinho. 'I developed the team before and after three years someone else came — in this case, it was not somebody else. It was one and one and another one another one another one. Now many? Four or five or six? They had my team.'
Mourinho believes he still has unfinished business at Chelsea following his first stint at Stamford Bridge boss
Rafa Benitez was one Chelsea manager that tried and failed to replace Mourinho when he first left
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