Peter Kenyon has used the launch of Chelsea Football Club's Corporate Social Responsibility Report to reaffirm support for José Mourinho.

 

Speaking at the House of Commons where a new global charity partner, Right to Play, was announced in conjunction with the presentation of the first CSR report in the club's history, chief executive Kenyon said:

 

'The owner and the board are fully supportive of José - of that there is no question. And let me tell you that José is fully supportive of seeing the job out.

 

'I signed him up with a vision of where we wanted to take Chelsea and he wanted to be part of it, and we're two years into that.

 

'His contract runs to 2010 and we're very confident. We'd like everybody to get back to concentrating on what is a huge weekend.'

 

The need for all at Chelsea not to have their attention diverted away from what matters above all was key to the Kenyon message.

 

'We should be quite clear that Chelsea is not in crisis,' he stated.

 

'I know lots of clubs who would like to be six points off the top and probably the only club in contention for all four trophies this season.'

'We're calm and we're clear.

 

'The objectives of everybody - that's the board and José - is to concentrate on following up from what have been two fantastic seasons.

 

'José and his family love living in London and the job is not done yet, and quite bluntly where else is there that is better than where we are today?'

 

Mourinho, who was also in attendance at the event, appreciated the message of support.

 

'I like to hear that,' he said. 'It's important for a manager to know and to feel that the club wants him, likes him and supports him.

 

'If the club is supportive of me it means it is supportive of my team because my team is completely with me. We are together since the first day and that hasn't changed so if the club is supportive it's very important.

 

'I don't change my mind in relation to the love I have for Chelsea and the Premiership.

 

'My family is happy here. My kids are in a moment of their lives where a change year after year is not good for them.

 

'Everything is good for me,' he insisted, 'and the support Peter Kenyon is saying that the club has for me, if that support is real support - not about money - but is about real support and complete respect for your job in the club then I will be very happy to see out my contract until the end.'