Jose Mourinho wants Chelsea job for TWELVE years as he urges Blues to follow Arsenal's model of stability
Jose Mourinho wants Chelsea job for TWELVE years as he urges Blues to follow Arsenal's model of stability
The Stamford Bridge boss thinks it will be for the club AND the league if the hire-and-fire culture is abandoned
Stability: Jose thinks Chelsea will be better off staying with him
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Jose Mourinho has urged Chelsea to follow Arsenal’s model of managerial stability - and wants to stay at Stamford Bridge for another 12 years.
While
the Gunners have won nothing under Arsene Wenger since 2005, Roman Abramovich’s club have won the Champions League, the Europa League, the Premier League and two FA Cups since Mourinho left in 2007.
The hire-and-fire culture has proved more successful than steadiness and security.
But
Mourinho, who won two Premier League titles during his first Chelsea
reign, said: “It depends on the perspective. I think the best way to do
it is to do it with stability.”
Wenger,
who took over at Arsenal in 1996, is the only manager still at the same
club as in 2007 and Mourinho added: “It’s sad because I think a league
gets better if we keep the good things and we improve the bad things.
“The
league doesn’t get better if we kill the good things, even if we improve
some other things. One of the good things is that sense of stability,
to let people work without pressure or that sense of non-selfish job,
that you have to do it for ‘yourself’.
“That’s
something that’s going to finish, and is bad for this league. I hope
some of us, we can show good work that keeps us for many years in the
same club.
“This is something that, culturally, was a brand for the Premier
League. We should influence other countries in the same direction, not
let them influence us in the wrong way.
“How
long can I stay? Realistically I have four years contract remaining.
Realistically, I hope at the end of those four years we sit, analyse the
situation and that will be the point where we are both - club and me -
happy to carry on or happy to separate. Realistically, my desire and my
feeling is to work these four years and, after that, analyse the
situation.”
But while Mourinho admitted no manager is “untouchable”, he added he hopes to stay
at Stamford Bridge for the long-term to build a second dynasty.
“I
would say 12 years,” he said. “I’m 51 next month. I’d say 12 years, and
to go to a World Cup with a national team. I would prefer the Portuguese national team. England second, yes.”
While
Chelsea’s displays have often been frustrating, Mourinho has largely retained his relaxed off-field demeanour. He revealed he buried the hatchet with his former protege Andre Villas-Boas last week. Repeat performance: Jose is hoping to repeat this season's Capital One Cup win over the Gunners
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And
after famously accusing Wenger of being a “voyeur” back in 2005, the
Blues boss says relations have also improved with the Frenchman who he
has never lost to in nine meetings.
“He
was speaking about Chelsea all the time, always making criticisms and
jibes, and the money and this and that - it was too much,” Mourinho
said.
“At this moment he’s totally focused on his team and his club. He’s
not looking to us. Peacefully, we are living without any kind of
problems.
“I
don’t know why he stopped and I don’t regret what he said. I’m not
friends with him because, to be friends, you need to be close and time
to develop that relation, but we have a lot of respect.”
Keeping
with the theme of stability, Mourinho insisted he will not buy a new
striker in January - or allow Ashley Cole to go out on loan. Even before
the England star’s visit to the Arsenal Christmas party, the Chelsea
boss was picking Cesar Azpilicueta as left-back - and will continue tonight.
“In this moment he’s playing better,” Mourinho insisted. “Azpi is
showing me he’s physically better, very strong. I don’t remember one
defensive positional mistake from Azpi.
“When
we’re going to face people like Mesut coming from the right or Theo
Walcott making diagonal runs, or Rosicky attacking defenders with the
ball at his feet, I’d want Azpi to go.”
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