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Mourinho to Chelsea is a DONE DEAL! pens £10m-a-year contract

According to the Daily Mail, Jose Mourinho is understood to have agreed a deal to rejoin Chelsea and could officially return to Stamford Bridge on July 1. The Real Madrid manager is said to have dined with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich at the La Famiglia restaurant in west London where he is said to have accepted a £10million-a-year deal – although he still has to negotiate his release from Real. 

As Sportsmail exclusively revealed on Thursday, Abramovich will have to pay Real a £12m release clause. Chelsea are likely to announce the deal before leaving on their pre-season Far East tour.

This means that Mourinho’s first match back at the helm will be a friendly against a Singha All Stars XI in Thailand on July 17.

Mourinho’s former assistant, Andre Villas-Boas, on Thursday said he suspected a deal had already been struck to bring him back to the club where he enjoyed such success between 2004 and his dismissal in 2007.