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”I’ll never quit again” Mourinho promises Chelsea Fans

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says he will never walk away from Stamford Bridge, as long as the club want him to stay.

The Portuguese, 50, is in his second spell at the club – having left Stamfod Bridge after winning two Premier League titles, he returned in 2013following spells at Inter Milan and Real Madrid.

“I stay until they want me not to stay,” he told BBC Football Focus.

“No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.”

Mourinho first arrived at Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2004, weeks after guiding Porto to Champions League success.

As well as two league titles, he also won the FA Cup and two League Cups but could not steer the Blues to European glory.

Mourinho claimed the Champions League for a second time at Inter, as well as securing two Serie A titles, before winning La Liga with Madrid.

But he says his long-term future is at Chelsea, as long as club owner Roman Abramovich is keen for him to stay beyond his four-year contract.

“I want to think about the contract I have now, which is a four-year contract – and I have three and a half years left,” he said.

Mourinho’s side have scored the fewest goals among the Premier League’s top four and his strikers have only contributed 20% of Chelsea’s goals this season – the lowest by any strikers in the Premier League.

“After that, the club knows I don’t want to leave. I don’t want to think about the next move because I don’t have ambition of a next move.

“I don’t need a new contract. I don’t need more money because I get enough and the club knows because I told them, ‘I stay until you want’, so when one day Mr Abramovich decides that I am not the man, he tells me and I go.

“But if in three years’ time, he says they want me to sign a new contract, then I sign a new contract because I don’t want to leave. Simple as that.”

Mourinho’s Chelsea are third in the Premier League, nine points ahead ofSunday’s opponents Manchester United, who are seventh.

Champions United are 11 points adrift of leaders Arsenal and out of the FA Cup in manager David Moyes’s first season after succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson.

But Mourinho has backed Moyes to deliver success to Old Trafford despite an indifferent start.

“He is not in trouble,” the Chelsea manager said. “He is just going through a moment of frustration because results are not going their way.

bbc,com