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Chelsea boss Mourinho: I will go into my seventies

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has plans to work into his seventies.

He was 52 in January – and reckons he will be around for the next TWENTY years.

Asked if he would be in management as long as his arch-rival Wenger who is 65 and other managers like 61-year­-old Manuel Pellegrini at Manchester City and 63­-year-­old Claudio Ranieri at Leicester, Mourinho responded : “ I see myself going into the seventies. Not for ever and ever but while my health is good."

Mourinho believes he is getting better with age.

“It is a job where experience is very, very important. With players there is a moment when their experience has a fight with their physical condition.

“With managers, no. Unless you lose your appetite then that is a different story. But I see myself now better than I was ten years ago. I am in evolution, not even in stability."

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