Jose Mourinho has sensationally revealed that he turned down the chance to become PSG manager twice before his return to Chelsea.
Mourinho claims that he was at Real Madrid when the French giants approached him first, and was returning to his beloved Chelsea when he turned them down for the second time.
He went on to say that he would only consider taking the PSG job in the future if Chelsea decided for whatever reason to sack him from his current job at Stamford Bridge.
The Chelsea boss revealed:
I turned down Paris twice. I think I can say I was the first option for Leonardo.
“Before Carlo Ancelotti? Yes. Before Laurent Blanc? Yes”, Mourinho added.
“I really thought about it, but I was at Real Madrid the first time and the second time I returned to Chelsea.”
When asked whether Mourinho would consider PSG in the future, he said that his appointment in Paris would only be possible if Chelsea were to end his services in West London.
If Chelsea sack me? Yes. But, otherwise, I am unmovable. I do not want to leave.
“Paris is not an option,” he said. “I will not get fired because results are good”, he stressed.
“I am now at a club I want to be at. But football is football. There will come a day when I’m told ‘Jose, it’s over”, Mourinho finished.
Chelsea defeated PSG in the quarter finals of last season’s Champions League before going out to eventual runners up Atlético Madrid.
