Mauricio Pochettino has suggested he would walk away from Chelsea if he were unhappy and his end-of-season job review will not only be about whether the club’s owners want to keep him.
The manager, who takes his improving team to Nottingham Forest on Saturday in the hunt for a Europa League finish, moved to take control of a storyline that has developed in intensity over recent months and which he said had affected people at the club – albeit not the players.