‘I won’t spend another year in London on my own’: Conte throws Chelsea future into doubt
“We have to build the basis for a solid future here at Chelsea”, Conte said.
“This is a big club but they have only won the Champions League once and one year later they were eliminated in the group stage [against his Juventus side]. Then they won the Premier League and ended up in tenth position the following year. They need stability to stay at a top level every year.”
“This season has not been easy. The beginning was hard but if I manage to reach the top of the table, I usually manage to stay there. If we beat Sunderland we’d make 30 Premier League wins this season. Nobody has ever achieve that.”
“At the beginning I didn’t know how the team would have played which is the worst thing ever. A defeat lasts two days for me, a win lasts one hour. I thought: ‘If I will die, I will do it following my ideas. I don’t like compromises.”
“My players have always respected me, also for my past as a footballer. We were all very united and we all wanted to have a great season after the 10th place. The lads have accepted a new way of living: from their diet to video analysis to the importance of details. It was exciting to hear the first chants for me. That’s when I understood I had conquered Stamford Brdige.”
“My wife and I decided in January that my daughter Vittoria would have finished the school in Turin even if she was already enrolled in a school here in London. If I will stay here in London, I want them to be with me. My daughter could have a big opportunity to leave in a foreign country. I am not going to stay here on my own for another year.”
“I am proud Italy fans love me. Speculations over my future are normal. I am in love with Italy, I feel my country in my heart, whatever I am doing even if I had to win the Premier League to make my dad return here. At the beginning of the season he promised he’d have visited my if I had won the Premier League.”