MOURINHO WANTS TO STAY UP TO 15 YEARS AT OLD TRAFFORD.

Jose Mourinho says he wants to stay for up to 15 years at Manchester United.

Mourinho, who has managed Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, never stayed in club for more than three years. The Portuguese is however, entering his second season at United and sees himself staying at Old Trafford for many more years to come.

Mourinho is adamant he has found the club where he can remain for the rest of his managerial career.

"I'm ready for this," said Mourinho. "I'm ready for the next 15, I would say. Here? Yes, why not?

"I have to admit that it's 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's 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."

Despite his desire to stay at United long-term, Mourinho, sacked in his second spell at Chelsea just six months after winning the Premier League title, knows that once results become unfavourable, sack becomes inevitable.

"You have huge success in one year, the next year you don't have success and you're out," said Mourinho.

"It happened to me at Chelsea, it happened to 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 Wenger will be the last with a similar story in terms of staying at a club for so many years, but I what I try to do in modern football nowadays is to try to deserve to stay in the club, because in this moment, it's about success.

"You have success, you stay in the club. You don't have success, you don't stay."

Despite the precarious nature of modern football management, none of the Premier League's top seven teams from last season have changed bosses, with Antonio Conte, Mauricio Pochettino, Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Wenger, Mourinho and Ronald Koeman all still in their respective jobs.

"Where are these clubs going to get better managers than us?" Mourinho said. "It is not easy, with respect to others.

"There are other managers with quality, but where can you get more experience, curriculum, know-how of how to make the club better?"

"It is normal that we all stay and I think it is important especially for the stability of the teams," said Mourinho. "I think it's important that managers stay for more than a season."