Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho aims to manage at top level for another 20 YEARS

Posted Saturday, November 01, 2014 by Dailystar.co.uk

JOSE MOURINHO has set his sights on another 20 years at the very top of the game.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho aims to manage at top level for another 20 YEARS
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The Chelsea boss says he will only take on the challenge of managing a smaller side if he finds himself unwanted by one of the big boys.

Since ending a brief spell at Portuguese minnows Uniao de Leiria in 2002, Mourinho has only known the biggest clubs and competed for the best trophies at Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid.

He said: "I don't think anyone likes to change from big to smaller, and from big expectations and projects to small ones.

"When you reach the top, you want to stay at the top. That's normal.

"For me the situation is clear - I want to work 15 or 20 more years in round numbers.

"If, during this time, I do well enough to stay in a top level club, I will.

"If I don't do well enough, and my market changes and I only have smaller clubs waiting for me, I will.

"Every club I went to was a big club, really. But not the best, not the one with most resources, not the one in the best conditions to win.

"Big clubs, big expectations, but not in that particular moment when I went to any one of these clubs, in the best conditions to win.

"Even at Inter. They had gone 50 years without winning a Champions League, and that was what we had to change.

"Not the Scudetto. We were there to win the Champions League.

"So big challenges. In a certain way more challenging than working in a small team.

"When I did work in a small team (Uniao de Leiria), I was third in January and, because of that, I went to a big club (Porto)."

Right now it is hard to see Mourinho being anywhere other than Chelsea with his league leaders unbeaten in all competitions and everything going to plan.

Ahead of today's west London derby with QPR, Mourinho said: "We are where we want to be. First in the Champions League, first in the league, quarter-final of the League Cup.

"But in terms of performance and the quality of the team, no team is perfect. We are not perfect, but I'm happy with what we are doing."

But Mourinho was giving away nothing about his side's weaknesses.

Asked where his side could improve, Mourinho said: "Not for me (to say). No, no, no."