Speculation over Jose Mourinho's future intensified on Thursday after he reportedly told youth team coaches he would not be manager of Real Madrid next season.
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Spanish sports daily As raised the prospect of the Portuguese's departure from the nine-time European champions in an interview with Manuel Alvarez, club president of Canillas, where the Real boss delivered a coaching master class on Monday.
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"Mourinho told us that next year he wouldn't be able to give the master class, that it would be impossible because he would no longer be here.
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"He said it half jokingly, half seriously," Alvarez was quoted as saying.
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"He didn't tell us where he was going because we didn't ask him any further questions," the president of Canillas, a club in the Madrid suburbs, added.
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On Sunday another Spanish paper, El Pais, linked Mourinho to a return to his former club Chelsea, who have also been linked to Malaga's Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini.
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Mourinho's contract with Real, who face Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League semifinal first leg next Tuesday, runs until 2016.
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He has always stated that he plans to sit down with Real president Florentino Perez at the end of the season to discuss his future.