Daily Mirror

I’M FUL ON THINKING ABOUT FINAL

- BY MIKE WALTERS

FULHAM boss Slavisa Jokanovic is making no promises about his future after admitting: “I don’t know what I’m going to do on Sunday morning.”

Jokanovic, once an unheralded midfielder at Stamford Bridge, has appeared on Chelsea’s radar with the FA Cup winners looking certain to part company with manager Antonio Conte.

Fulham, the most stylish team in the Championsh­ip for the last two seasons, expect their Serbian (right) to stay if they clinch promotion in Saturday’s teatime shoot-out with Aston Villa.

But asked about the Chelsea link, he said: “I have an important enough job here at this moment.

“I am thinking only about the play-off final and I don’t have time for anything else. I have a contract with Fulham and that’s it. I am not going to think about the future – this game is so huge I don’t know what I am going to do on Sunday morning. “To be honest, I don’t care – I am only thinking about the job ahead of us. We want to bring Fulham to the place where we believe they belong.” Jokanovic won promotion to the Premier League with Watford in 2015, but left without taking charge of a top-flight game because he could not agree terms to extend his contract. He insists he has unfinished business in the Premier League – but hopes it will take two decades to complete it.

He added: “I don’t expect I am going to finish any time soon. I expect I am going to work for 20 years more – if I am lucky, I am going to finish my business like Arsene Wenger.”

Defeat would almost certainly mean the break-up of the current Fulham team, with stars Ryan Sessegnon, Tom Cairney and Ryan Fredericks the likeliest departures – along with the manager.

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