Chelsea manager Antonio Conte should be keeping an eye out for another job, ex-Blues boss Ruud Gullit has claimed.
Speculation has been rife about Conte’s future at the club as the club are out of contention to retain the Premier League title. The Italian has been forthcoming with comments to the press and has publicly asked the club to refute the rumours of his imminent departure.
The Blues hierarchy have failed to do so, and Gullit, who won the 1997 FA Cup as Chelsea manager, believes that because of this, Conte should be broadening his options.
He told SunSport: “Hearing all these rumours all the time and nobody at the club ever says ‘no that’s not true’, there must be something.
“If I was Conte I would already be looking around, if there’s an alternative I would be interested. Nobody at the club is saying it’s not true.
“Obviously that’s not a guarantee [of him staying], they may say ‘we trust him’ – although that’s even worse!”
