Mourinho: 'I would like things to go well and be here many years'

Manchester United is where Jose Mourinho wants to be for the foreseeable future.

In an interview with SIC that was published in a number of Portuguese newspapers, Mourinho spoke of his desire to stay at Old Trafford for "many years" but admitted he isn't the type of manager to spend a decade at one club.

"(A minimum of) three years, I think I will be here, I think the club understood the necessity to give stability to all levels," Mourinho said, according to the Press Association. "I believe if we do that, even without a massive success, which is harder in football, even more so in England, but with some type of success, I see myself here if they want me to stay.

"If they want me to stay I will stay, but like I say, we both need to be happy. I'm not a type of person to be at a club 10, 15 years, without real success. I need to have true success, my life is like that, I need that pride and happiness. In all honesty, I would like things to go well and be here many years."

Sir Alex Ferguson spent 27 years at United before retiring from management, joining the Red Devils from Aberdeen in 1986, when Mourinho was still putting on a pair of cleats and representing Comercio e Industria.