Jose Mourinho is to be rewarded for guiding Chelsea to a first Premier League title in five years with a new contract, according to reports.
The 52-year-old Portuguese manager is halfway through a four-year contract signed on his return to Stamford Bridge in June 2013 and has reportedly verbally agreed a two-year extension.
Mourinho won two Premier League titles in his first spell – including in 2005 Chelsea’s first championship in 50 years – before departing after little more than three years as manager.
Since his return after a six-and-a-half-year absence, Mourinho has often spoken of his desire to stay as long as owner Roman Abramovich wishes to keep him.
The Blues boss repeated that after Sunday’s 1-0 defeat of Crystal Palace, which secured Chelsea’s first title since 2009-10 and the eighth of his prolific 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,” said Mourinho, who has led something of a nomadic existence since leaving Porto for London in June 2004.
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