Conte has repeatedly complained this season about his lack of input into the club's recruitment policy as tensions have risen with the Chelsea hierarchy. "When you have this period with such poor results, you have to divide the responsibility between me, the players and the club," said Conte. "As you know very well, because we are talking about football, a lot of times - I don't agree with this - the coach depends on the results. They are last in the Premier League and Saturday's result left them five points from safety. Moreover, forward Jay Rodriguez was charged by the FA on Thursday of using racist language towards Brighton's Gaetan Bong.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 11, 2018 00:11 UTC