Jose Mourinho has pledged to break his own record as the longest serving Chelsea manager to have worked under owner Roman Abramovich after his contract was revised for another four years as a boss.
Mourinho revealed that he would not leave Chelsea unless he is forced to do so. And said he has worked hard to get up here.
Mourinho was offered to lead Inter Milan and Real Madrid but the Portuguese football manager insisted in joining Chelsea.
Mourinho may have had a reputation for being a short-term manager in his outstanding coaching career to date, but he thinks he has a longevity that will redifine both his own and Abramovich’s history.
Mourinho started:“The record for a Chelsea manager with this owner is three and a half years and I have four-year contract, so hopefully I beat the record”.
“I stay until they want me not to stay. No other club could move me from Chelsea. I think everything should start for a manager with a project of life, with a project of career and I had my career project since the beginning and this is for me.
“I want to do in Italy, I want to do it in Spain, I want to do it in England. I want to try to win all these competitions in these three big football countries. It’s something I want to do, something I want to do during the time my son and my daughter (are still living with him), so we can do it as a family.
“The ambitions I have are the same. I’m not here because I want to be stable, I’m not here because I don’t want to win. It is the opposite. I want even more, but it’s a different project of career and in this moment I know where I want to be and it’s so simple.
“This is why I change my management style at Chelsea. It is one thing is to have a relation with my players that I know are going to be my players for a couple of years and then you are more confrontational.
“Another thing is to educate players with a relation and with an empathy that I’m sure is going to be here for five, six, seven, eight years. It is a completely different profile and that is why I say I change in this job.”
Mourinho went on to say that the owner has altered the club’s ability to look at a game and has brought patience onto every player like never before.
“This club has changed now and this is why it was the right time for me to return,” believes Mourinho. “The club is more mature, the club is stable, the club knows what it really wants. It’s easy to say what the club wants. The club wants to win.
“I wouldn’t come just because I love Chelsea and want to come back. No, I come because I believe in the club, I believe in the project and I believe the owner has learned a lot in the last ten years.
“For me it was very, very clear since the first time I met the owner before I come back, that his ideals were very, very clear. He believes that I was the right person to work with the club, and I was very happy with that.”