It has been rumbling on for while, whether the Italian tactician, Antonio Conte who took the Premier League by the storm will sign a contract extension at Chelsea or walk away.

Having led the London-based club to their second title in three years and winning with a team left ‘for dead’ by Jose Mourinho it is natural that Chelsea management wants him staying at Stamford Bridge for many years.

The former Juventus and Italy manager signed a three-year contract when he joined Chelsea last summer and was expected to sign for more years and an improved contract but rather he signed an improved contract on his remaining two years deal.

There were rumours that the Italian was close to walking away from the Premier League champions amidst reports he wants full custody of operations at Chelsea a demand the management not willing to agree to.


It was also reported that apart of from Tiemoue Bakayoko, the signing of Antonio Rudiger and Willy Caballero weren’t his first choices as he requested for Leonardo Bonucci or Virgil van Dijk.

Chelsea have been having difficulties securing their transfer targets because of their unwillingness to match the selling club’s valuations for their targets.

They dragged Lukaku’s deal, United stepped in and took him. They are £3m short of Real Madrid’s valuation of Danilo and City could take him. They are not ready to go into a bidding war with Milan for the signature of Morata and are on the verge of losing him.

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