Marouane Fellaini has admitted he is still mulling over his future at Manchester United but believes manager Jose Mourinho will respect his decision if he opts to quit Old Trafford.

United will offer Fellaini an improved deal worth up to £150,000-a-week after the Belgium midfielder rejected the club’s initial contract offer in September.

Fellaini is free to talk to foreign suitors from Monday and could leave United for nothing when his existing contract expires at the end of the season.

Mourinho is eager to keep Fellaini but the pair have talked through the situation and the player is convinced his manager will understand if he rebuffs a new deal and moves elsewhere.

“If Manchester did not want me anymore, they would have said that for a long time,” Fellaini told Belgian website HUMO. “They made a proposal, probably another will follow. Whether I will accept it, I do not know. We will see. You can not arrange something like that in a jiffy.”