Jose Mourinho makes shock announcement 'Rui Faria will take over as Chelsea boss'

Jose Mourinho admits Rui Faria would be a good successor at Stamford Bridge

JOSE MOURINHO has admitted his current right-hand man Rui Faria would be the best successor as Chelsea boss.

 

The Special One has worked with a number of big names that have now gone into management including Brendan Rodgers, Andre Villas-Boas and Steve Clarke.

However, the Portuguese believes his assistant Faria is the best he's worked with and most suited to taking the helm at Stamford Bridge.

 

He told BT Sport: "If one day I have to choose my successor, if you want to use that, the one that I really feel thinks like.

"Is adapted to my way of leading, he’s adapted to my way of coaching, he’s the one with more similarities with me even in some traces of personality, is my assistant, Rui Faria."

 

The 40-year-old has been with Mourinho since he the was manager of U.D. Leiria in 2001, initially taken on as a fitness coach.

And his rise through the ranks is not too dissimilar to Mourinho's own beginnings where he worked as a translator for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting Lisbon in the early 1990s, before launching his own managerial career.