Lothar Matthaus believes Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho would be the perfect manager to replace Pep Guardiola as boss of the German champions.

Bayern Munich legend Lothar Matthaus believes Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho would be the perfect manager to replace Pep Guardiola as boss of the German champions.

According to ​Mail Online, Matthaus believes Guardiola will leave the club at the end of the season as he's yet to agree a new contract. The Spaniard's contract runs until the end of June next year and Matthaus believes the indecision over his future means he's more set on leaving than staying.

Matthaus likes Mourinho's style and has called for the Chelsea boss to succeed Guardiola when he does leave, saying: "Mourinho would be the right boss for Bayern. Mourinho is more straight, more clean.

"Mourinho tells players things straight to their faces, whether they are in the first 11 or on the bench. I only hear good things about Mourinho and I have that information directly from his players.

"Pep's contract expires in 2016. But if he was sure about what he wants, he would sign now. My feeling is that he will leave."

Mourinho - who has been in the public eye recently for his fall-out with Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro - has won the Champions League with two different clubs, while he's also lifted domestic titles in whichever country he's worked in.

He agreed a new contract with Chelsea earlier this month, though, and Matthaus thinks Bayern will have a tough task in convincing him to move to Germany: "I know Mourinho has just agreed a new contract with Chelsea and that he feels that the club is his living room.

"For many people there, he is a hero. Mourinho has been successful in Portugal, Spain, Italy and England, with clubs where he did not always have the same quality of players as Pep did at Barcelona and Bayern.

"Mourinho won the treble with Inter, he beat Barca and Bayern. This is why I think he is a great manager for Bayern."