Antonio Conte: 'It will be the most difficult season of my career'

Antonio Conte expects this season to be his most difficult in management.

The Chelsea boss made his prediction after the club publicly rebuffed “nonsense” claims over exiled striker Diego Costa.

Costa’s future has been a recurring theme at Chelsea since January, when he was linked with a move to the Chinese Super League and was left out of the squad at Leicester as rumours of tensions with Conte surfaced.