Mourinho Said To Have Extended Contract

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is understood to have verbally agreed a two-year extension to his contract.

The 52-year-old guided the Blues to their first Premier League title in five years following their 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace on Sunday and looks set to be rewarded with a bumper new deal which will keep him at the club until 2019.

Mourinho is halfway through a four-year contract which was signed on his return 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, the Portuguese has often spoken of his desire to stay as long as owner Roman Abramovich wishes to keep him.

Mourinho repeated that wish after the win over Palace, which secured Chelsea's first title since 2009-10 and the eighth of his career.

"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," he said.

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.

Prior to the Capital One Cup final victory over Tottenham on 1 March, Mourinho revealed he would consider moving to another English club if he left Chelsea, where he wishes to stay for the remainder of his career.

"I don't want to go away. I will stay here in this chair until Mr Abramovich tells me 'Jose, it's enough'," Mourinho said on 27 February.

"If one day he tells me 'Jose it's enough', I will go to my house in London and I 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. Until he wants me to stay, I will stay - and that is what I want. I am not thinking about leaving, I want to stay at Chelsea for the rest of my career."