Jose Mourinho is keen for Branislav Ivanovic to remain at Chelsea
The 31 year old has been offered a new £90,000 a week one-year extension to his contract, which runs out in 2016.
That is in line with Chelsea's club policy, which is that players over 30 only get one-year deals.
Mourinho, however, feels that Ivanovic is such an important player that he is lobbying the Stamford Bridge board to break with policy and give the Serb a longer deal – possibly one-year with an option for a second.
Express Sport revealed on Saturday that the Serb international is to follow Nemanja Matic, John Terry and Eden Hazard in getting new contracts at Chelsea.
Mourinho has described Ivanovic, who joined from Lokomotiv Moscow in January 2008 for just £9million, as one of the club's best ever signings, calling the defender: "A competitive animal with a big heart."
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Ivanovic has scored 31 goals in eight seasons at Stamford Bridge.
In their final match before heading to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie, with the score 1-1, Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Lens 4-1.
Former Chelsea defender David Luiz scored the opened the scoring and Zlatan Ibrahimovic also found the net from the penalty spot, on his return from suspension.
Yoann Touzghar reduced the deficit, before Blaise Matuidi and Javier Pastore made it a comfortable win.
"We will create fewer chances at Stamford Bridge than today, so we will need to be more clinical," said manager Laurent Blanc.
"They are a top level team so we can't compare this game today with that one. Even although we got four goals we were not clinical enough."
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