'I'm going home!' - Jose Mourinho breaks silence on Chelsea return

Cameron Smith

• Updated: 26 Sep 2025 16:18 CDT
• 3 min read

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Jose Mourinho has admitted that he will return “home” when his Benfica side face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League next week.

Mourinho, 62, spent seven years as Chelsea manager across two spells at the club and he won eight trophies with the Blues, including the Premier League on three occasions.

He is regarded as arguably the club’s greatest ever manager and he remains a legend at Stamford Bridge, despite two acrimonious exits from the club in 2007 and 2015.

Following his appointment as the new Benfica boss last week, Mourinho will return to west London on Tuesday evening as Chelsea host the Portuguese giants in their second fixture of the 2025-26 Champions League season.

Enzo Maresca’s side suffered a 2-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in their opening European fixture of the campaign on 17 September and they will host Benfica expecting to pick up their first Champions League victory since March 2023.

Jose Mourinho breaks silence on Chelsea return

“For you to have an idea, my son goes to the match and he works from home. He’s as close as we are. When we are at home, we understand the results just by the noise because the noise arrives at home,” Mourinho told Stan Sport Football ahead of his return to Stamford Bridge.

“I’m just, I’m just there. So it’s really, really, really to go home. Then it’s a stadium where I won three Premier Leagues. I made history with Chelsea. Chelsea belongs to my history and I belong to Chelsea history.

“But that’s football. They want to win and I want to win. And as I was saying before, I will realise where I am before the match. I will realise where I am after the match. During the match, I think I have the capacity to forget and just to compete.”

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