Monaco have denied claims that Chelsea rejected a €50 million (£35m) bid from the Ligue 1 club for Jose Mourinho, calling on the media to ignore the "extravagant and unsubstantiated rumours" of shareholder Alessandro Proto.

Monaco minority shareholder Proto said in a statement from his company Proto Enterprises to Spanish news agency EFE on Tuesday that he met Roman Abramovich in London to try to tempt the Chelsea owner into letting Mourinho go, with the Premier League champions 15th after 11 games.

Proto says that Abramovich rejected the offer from Monaco's owner Dmitry Rybolovlev despite Mourinho's Stamford Bridge future being in doubt, but that the Chelsea owner would reportedly consider a €100m (£71m) fee.