Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes that FC Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa should keep faith with coach Julen Lopetegui.
Porto currently sit second in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, three points behind Benfica with three games left to play. With Benfica's remaining games coming against FC Penafiel (home), Vitoria Guimaraes (away) and Maritimo (home), they are strong favourites to lift the title.
But for Mourinho, whose Chelsea side won the Premier League yesterday, that does not necessarily mean Lopetegui should be axed as he will be in a better position to guide Porto in his second season in charge.
"Why not? If the coach picked the squad, the club believed in him if there were things that went well and others less well. Why not give him the possibility to do it a second time, which could be better?" Mourinho, a former Porto coach, told CMTV.
"The stability gives the club a better position to be stronger", he continued, before backing whatever the Porto president decides to do.
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"Knowing Mr Pinto da Costa well, someone who has changed coaches, but always with the conviction that he was doing what was best for the club, if he thinks it is best to keep the current coach, why not?"
Lopetegui, a former Barcelona goalkeeper, took charge at Porto last year after a spell coaching Spain's Under-21 side.
The 48-year-old guided Spain's Under-21 side to success at the UEFA European Under-21 Championship in 2013.
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