Mourinho expects to be at Fenerbahce next season

Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho has said helium expects to stay astatine the nine adjacent season.

The Portuguese coach, who joined the Turkish nine connected a two-year declaration past summer, had remained coy astir his aboriginal successful caller weeks.

But, speaking aft his side's 4-2 league nonaccomplishment astatine Hatayspor connected Monday, Mourinho said: "If you inquire maine if I'm going to beryllium present adjacent season, I notation to the past [Fenerbahce] president's quality connected TV a mates of weeks ago, wherever the president said that helium wants maine to enactment and helium is counting connected maine to enactment for the adjacent season.

"That is public. That's it. I deliberation helium was clear. If thing changes from that day, I was not told. I tin corroborate that these words were precisely the aforesaid words that I was told erstwhile we met. So that for maine is simply a precise wide situation."

Fenerbahce president Ali Koç said he wanted Mourinho to proceed "for stability" portion besides revealing that the erstwhile Chelsea and Real Madrid manager had received a €36 cardinal ($40.6m) connection to permission the nine successful the mediate of the season, but had turned it down.

Mourinho, who has been precise captious of Turkish referees passim the season, has travel nether occurrence from fans implicit the team's caller performances.

"The disappointment regarding these past performances, it's achy for everybody," Mourinho said.

"It's lone radical that don't recognize what radical are like, what the extremity of play is like. The information is not the aforesaid but I don't judge that radical deliberation that players don't care."

Fenerbahce, who decorativeness their the Super Lig run connected Saturday astatine location to Konyaspor, secured a 2nd spot decorativeness down champions Galatasaray earlier this month.

Mourinho, meanwhile, expects different challenging summertime arsenic his squad volition person to spell done the qualifying rounds to play successful the Champions League radical stages.

"I've coached successful 2 European finals," Mourinho said.

"In the past 7 years, I person coached much European finals than the past of Turkish shot together. We tried to suffice for Champions League with Fenerbahce past summer. We mislaid that anticipation with a punishment from Lille successful the 120th minute.

"You inquire maine if I similar to play the Champions League alternatively than the Europa League, Conference League, yes, but not conscionable me, each club, each coach, each player. Next summertime we person again qualification for Champions League.

"We person to hole ourselves the champion we can."