Mourinho: I want to coach United for the next 15 years
José Mourinho wants to be Manchester United manager for “15 years” but he admits the pressures of the job would make such a lengthy tenure at Old Trafford difficult.
Mourinho is in his second term in charge, having led the club to the League Cup and Europa League successes in his first.
The longest Mourinho has stayed at a club was during his first tenure at Chelsea, when he entered a fourth season at the helm in 2007-08. But he plans to stay far longer at United.
“I am ready for this. 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.”
The great Sir Alex Ferguson was in charge from November 1986 until May 2013, when he retired.
“This club, for so many years, was Sir Alex,” Mourinho said. “People got used to it – people understood the great consequences of that stability.
After David [Moyes] and Mr [ 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.”