Antonio Conte ask Chelsea board for support

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has called for public backing from Chelsea in order to silence speculation about his future as head coach.
The Italian won the Premier League title in his first year in England but Chelsea have won just one league game in 2018 and failed to reach the Carabao Cup final after defeat to Arsenal, leading to talk that Conte could be sacked.

Conte has expressed his desire to honour the remaining 18 months of his contract.

He said "Maybe I'd like that the club to prepare a statement for me to tell [the media], 'I trust in his job, I trust in his work, but at the same time I know that in the past it never happened, this, and for this reason why would I hope for something different? For sure, I think that I'd like to have a statement to support against this speculation."