Mourinho wants to stay put Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho

LOS ANGELES. – Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has said that he wants to stay at the club for 15 years and restore the stability of Sir Alex Ferguson’s reign as manager at Old Trafford.

Both David Moyes and Louis van Gaal failed to last more than two seasons as manager at Old Trafford, but Mourinho enters into his second year on the back of EFL Cup and Europa League victories – which also secured the club’s Champions League place for the new campaign.

Mourinho has never spent more than three seasons in stints at his previous clubs including Real Madrid and Chelsea, but has set his sights on bringing the same long-term success as former managerial rival Ferguson.

In fact, Mourinho goes into his second season as manager with the same line-up of rivals in the English Premier League following no managerial changes at any of last season’s top seven teams, but the 54-year-old says that he wants to be the manager who ends United’s post-Ferguson instability by delivering success over a long-term period.

“I am ready for this,” Mourinho said. “I am ready for the next 15, I would say. Here? Yes, why not? I have to admit that it is very difficult because of the pressure around our jobs, everybody putting pressure on managers and things that people say – that we have to win, but in reality only one can win and every year it is getting more difficult.

“But what I try to do in the club is show that my work goes further than the football results, that it goes to areas that people don’t think of as a manager’s job. In my vision, my job is much more than what I do on the pitch and the results that my team gets at the weekend.

“This club, for so many years, was Sir Alex,” Mourinho continued. “People got used to it; people understood the great consequences of that stability. After David (Moyes) and Mr (Louis) Van Gaal, I come to my second year and hopefully I can stay and give that stability that the club wants.

‘‘I will try, but again, I will have to try to deserve that, but that’s what I try every day that I work.” – ESPN.

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