Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho wants a fortune to return to Chelsea. The Daily Express says Mourinho will hold Roman Abramovich to ransom if he is asked to return as Chelsea's saviour by insisting he remains the world's best-paid manager on £12million a year.

His relationship with Abramovich has improved since his Stamford Bridge sacking in 2007 but Mourinho will not make it easy for his former employers if he is asked to return.

He is the highest-paid manager in world football, earning £11.2m a year at Madrid - more than double what Villas-Boas was paid at Chelsea - and would want that figure bettered.