Jose Mourinho wants to remain with Manchester United for 15 years.

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. 

“I am ready for this,” Mourinho told ESPN. “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.”

Alex Ferguson remained with United from November of 1986 through May of 2013.

“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 [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.”