Ranieri wants to stay blue

Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri today did something of a U-turn and expressed the hope that he will be given the chance to finish the job he has started at Stamford Bridge.

He believes owner Roman Abramovich needs to add just a couple more pieces to his expensively-assembled jigsaw to put the club in a position to end Arsenal and Manchester United’s supremacy of English football – and would dearly love to be part of it.