José Mourinho said Chelsea's player will not receive a team bonus unless they win the Champions League.

The Premier League leaders play Paris Saint-Germain at Stamford Bridge with the knockout tie poised at 1-1 and the visitors on €250,000 (£180,000) per man if they progress into the last eight. PSG’s Qatari owners have implemented a sliding scale of bonuses that would lead each of their players to be paid €1 million (£740,000) should they lift their first European Cup.

“You know, for a long time, I don’t have bonuses,” he said. “I just have bonuses to win competitions. So I forgot that feeling. The last time was at Porto. Win bonuses for matches or win bonuses to get through some rounds ... I never had a bonus [like that] again and I don’t think we should. The club pay us a very good salary to do our job the best we can.

“If we take the club into quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals but we don’t win the competition, we are doing a very good job for the club financially but I don’t think we should get extra money if we don’t win the last prize. Every player at the high level has enough money in salaries and I think everyone plays to win.”

Asked if players should receive bonuses for progressing through the knockout stages, he said: “No. If somebody puts on the table €250,000 to win a certain match it’s nice but I think professionalism goes beyond that. Don’t take this the wrong way but, for me, what’s more important is the happiness and pride of success, more than the money.

“Football is about our passion for the game, the happiness and the pride of victories. They have no price.”