Mauricio Pochettino admits he doesn’t know if he might be at Chelsea subsequent season and known as on the membership to supply some readability.
The Argentine is approaching the midpoint of his two-year deal at Stamford Bridge with the primary 12 months containing loads of highs and lows.
He has confronted anger from supporters – most not too long ago after a 5-0 thumping at Arsenal – however did information the Blues to the EFL Cup remaining whereas current wins over Everton and Tottenham have proven indicators of development from a gifted however inexperienced squad.
Pochettino indicated he had grown bored with the fixed hypothesis round his place and hoped for some backing from the boardroom.
Talking forward of Sunday’s residence sport with West Ham, he mentioned: “[The task] is to show in any case these circumstances [injuries] that we need to be right here subsequent season.
“Who’s going to evaluate me? We have to decide ourselves.
“Sufficient with some of these rumours. If I’ve one yr extra on my contract right here, and nobody says nothing, suppose I’m going to be right here. [Unless] we end the season and somebody says to me ‘ciao’.
“We don’t know in the mean time. I’ve one yr extra [on my] contract. However sufficient about silly rumours. You might want to ask the membership if they need me to maintain going or not, to not write issues that don’t have any sense.”
Chelsea have been glorious in final evening’s win over Spurs, secured by objectives from Trevoh Chalabah and Nicolas Jackson.
And Pochettino is hoping for extra of the identical on the weekend.
He added: “Now it’s about protecting the identical mentality for Sunday.
“We’re going to play a crew that’s so sturdy bodily. They’re having a unbelievable season additionally, competing in Europe.
“For us, we have to get better gamers, we don’t have too many choices. They [West Ham] have had the entire week to arrange the sport. Essentially the most harmful video games are coming.”