Alvaro Morata has boosted Chelsea fans hope by saying that he will ‘surely’ play for Blues boss Antonio Conte one day
The Madrid striker speaking to Sid Lowe from the Guardian said he is “indebted to him [Conte] because he’s the coach that most trusted in me, most wanted me, who made me feel I could perform at the highest level,”
“And yet I’ve never had the fortune to actually work with him. I’m sure sooner or later I will.”
Morata also said that he was once approached over a move to London last summer, a decision he may regret not taking only having made ten La Liga stats this season. He’s still managed to score 16 goals in all competitions, pushing some Real fans to ask that he play ahead of Karim Benzema.
“I said ‘yeah, I’d like to,’ that if I had to leave I would almost certainly go to London, but that I didn’t know what Madrid would do,”
“I knew they’d bring me back, but I didn’t know if it was to keep me or sell me. I spoke directly to Mauricio Pochettino and [Conte]”
Morata is more than grateful to Conte for recruiting him to Juventus:
“I’m very conscious of that: He bet on me for Juventus but left before I arrived; then he wanted me at Chelsea come what may,”
“He knows me better than I could imagine, I’m sure, and that’s important: it motivates you to work hard, train well.”
Now this story is one of the very few in the mainstream media that is true, Morata actually did say that.
