Mourinho tells fans
he’s targeting a 15-year
stay at Old Trafford
Jose Mourinho has indicated he is prepared to retire
at Manchester United by telling supporters he is
targeting a 15-year stay at Old Trafford.
Sir Alex Ferguson spent 26 years at Old Trafford and
Mourinho has suggested that he too is ready to see
out the remainder of his career with the Red Devils.
The 54-year-old ex-Chelsea manager joined United
in the summer of 2016 and continued his success in
England by winning the FA Community Shield, the EFL
Cup and the Europa League in his debut season at the club.
‘I am ready for this. I am ready for the next 15, I would say.
Here? Yes, why not?’ Mourinho told ESPN.
‘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. 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.’
Mourinho believes what happened during his second stint
at Chelsea, when he was sacked midway through Chelsea’s
defence of their 2015-16 Premier League title, shows how
difficult carving out a career at one club has become.
He added: ‘You have huge success in one year, the next
year you don’t have success and you are out. It happened to
me at Chelsea, it happened to [Claudio] Ranieri at Leicester,
it will happen to many others.
‘Nowadays, people look much more on the short-term.
‘I think Sir Alex’s career is unique. I don’t think it is possible
to emulate. Nobody is going to be in the same club for so
many years, be in the same league for so many years.
‘I think [Arsene] Wenger will be the last with a similar story
in terms of staying at a club for so many years, but what
I try to do in modern football nowadays is to try to deserve
to stay in the club, because in this moment, it is about success.
‘You have success, you stay in the club. You don’t have
success, you don’t stay.’
(Metro, UK)
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