Jose Mourinho targets 15-year stay at Manchester United and eyes legacy off the pitch at Old Trafford as well as on it

Mourinho is not known for his longevity at clubs and heads into his second season at Old Trafford under pressure to deliver in the Premier League

Jose Mourinho is in it for the long haul at United (Getty)

Jose Mourinho is in it for the long haul at Manchester United and says he's ready to stay at the club for the next 15 years.

Mourinho is not known for his longevity at clubs and heads into his second season at Old Trafford under pressure to deliver in the Premier League after a disappointing campaign last term.

But the 54-year-old Portuguese says success on the pitch isn't his only target and that he has a vision for the club off it too.

"I am ready for this," he told ESPN. "I am ready for the next 15, I would say. Here? Yes, why not? I have to admit that it is very difficult because of the pressure around our jobs, everybody putting pressure on managers and things that people say - that we have to win - but in reality only one can win and every year it is getting more difficult.

"But what I try to do in the club is show that my work goes further than the football results, that it goes to areas that people don't think of as a manager's job. In my vision, my job is much more than what I do on the pitch and the results that my team gets at the weekend.

"This club, for so many years, was Sir Alex (Ferguson). People got used to it; people understood the great consequences of that stability. After David [Moyes] and Mr. [Louis] Van Gaal, I come to my second year and hopefully I can stay and give that stability that the club wants.

"I will try, but again, I will have to try to deserve that, but that's what I try every day that I work."

Mourinho knows better than most that bringing silverware does not make him fireproof as he found out when he was sacked just months after delivering the Premier League to Chelsea.

"You have huge success in one year, the next year you don't have success and you are out," he added. "It happened to me at Chelsea, it happened to [Claudio] Ranieri at Leicester, it will happen to many others. Nowadays, people look much more on the short term."