Jose Mourinho set to hold talks over his future at the champions

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2015 by skysports.com

Jose Mourinho: Set for talks over new contract

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is expected to hold further contract talks with the club after he secured a third Premier League trophy.

Sky Sports News HQ understands that a verbal agreement has yet to be reached between Mourinho and Chelsea.

Our sources say the club are keen to extend Mourinho’s contract, but no formal proceedings have yet taken place.

Mourinho is halfway through a four-year deal, and Chelsea have declined to comment on whether he is close to agreeing new terms.

The 52-year-old led the Blues to a first Premier League title in five years after their 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace at the weekend opened up an unassailable lead at the top of the table.

The Portuguese returned to Stamford Bridge in June 2013 having won two Premier League titles in his first spell as manager - including in 2005, Chelsea's first championship in 50 years - before departing after little more than three years.

Since his return to west London after a six-and-a-half-year absence, he has often spoken of his desire to stay as long as owner Roman Abramovich wishes to keep him.

'Consider moving'

And following the narrow win over Palace, which secured the eighth league title of Mourinho's career, he said: "As I was saying since the beginning of the season, I stay here until Mr Abramovich wants me to stay. The day he tells me to go, I go."

Mourinho left Chelsea in September 2007 and spent two seasons as Inter Milan boss, before moving to Real Madrid for three seasons in 2010 and then rejoining the Blues.

But prior to the Capital One Cup final victory over Tottenham on March 1, Mourinho revealed he would consider moving to another English club if he left Chelsea.

"I don't want to go away. I will stay here in this chair until Mr Abramovich tells me 'Jose, it's enough'," he said.

"If one day he tells me 'Jose it's enough', I will go to my house in London and I'll wait for another English club. When I left the first time, I had lots of countries to go to and lots of clubs to go to."

"In this moment when I leave, I have another 19 clubs in the Premier League and 22 clubs in the Championship. So the options are not so much. But I repeat I am in Mr Abramovich's hands."

"But I am not thinking about leaving, I want to stay at Chelsea for the rest of my career."