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		</div><p>Antonio Conte insisted John Terry would stay with Chelsea this season as the head coach hailed the homecoming of one of the captain&#8217;s possible defensive successors.</p>
<p>Terry was this week linked with a move to Bournemouth, on loan until the end of the season, after Nathan Ake was recalled from the Cherries by Chelsea.</p>
<p>Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe on Friday morning said no negotiations over Terry had taken place and Conte was adamant the 36-year-old defender, suspended for Saturday&#8217;s trip to Premier League champions Leicester, was going nowhere.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;John is an important player for me, if he plays or he doesn&#8217;t play,&#8221;</i> Conte said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;This squad needs him. He&#8217;s a great player, but also a great man and for me it&#8217;s fantastic to have a person like him to help me in my first season at Chelsea.</p>
<p>&#8220;For this reason, I repeat, John stays with us, is our player, is in my squad. And when I see the situation and I want and he deserves to play, he&#8217;ll play.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Terry is potentially in the final months of his career-long association with Chelsea, for whom he has made more than 700 appearances since making his debut more than 18 years ago.</p>
<p>The Cherries speculation arose after Holland age-group international Ake returned this week to contest for a first-team place at Stamford Bridge.</p>
<figure id="attachment_93695" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-93695" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/image-85.jpeg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/image-85.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="333" class="size-full wp-image-93695" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-93695" class="wp-caption-text">Antonio Conte Chelsea FC manager.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Conte was quiet on transfer speculation, but believes the return of Ake, who can play in central defence, the left side, in midfield or left wing-back, is like having a new signing.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We &#8216;bought&#8217; Ake,&#8221;</i> Conte added.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;His situation makes me more calm, also in the market, in January.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you have a player who can play different roles, it&#8217;s good for me.</p>
<p>&#8220;The first impressions are a lot of positives. This player has a good personality, he&#8217;s mature to stay with us.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a gift. I don&#8217;t like to gift someone. He deserves to come back to Chelsea.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Charly Musonda and Kenedy are also training with the first-team squad, with Conte assessing whether they are ready to play for him or should go on loan for the second half of the season.</p>
<p>Chelsea resume Premier League duty after Tottenham ended their 13-game winning run and the Blues responded with a FA Cup third-round win over Peterborough.</p>
<p>Conte&#8217;s side are five points clear at the top of the table entering this weekend&#8217;s fixtures, while Leicester are 15th, six points clear of the relegation zone.</p>
<p>It is a role reversal from last season when Chelsea were holders and perilously close to the drop zone before Conte&#8217;s summer arrival prompted a transformation.<br />
Asked about the Foxes&#8217; struggles, Conte said: <i>&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised because this league is very tough.</p>
<p>&#8220;For sure I consider Leicester a really good team, with good players. A good mix. They have a great manager.</p>
<p>&#8220;But it can happen, this, in this league. Don&#8217;t forget, Chelsea last season.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Conte, the Premier League&#8217;s manager of the month for December, his third award in a row, added: <i>&#8220;I think (the) Leicester game is very important. It&#8217;s important for us to restart, to restart to win.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Leicester&#8217;s Claudio Ranieri has also received an award recently, named coach of the year by FIFA after his side&#8217;s remarkable title triumph.</p>
<p>The Italians spoke prior to Chelsea&#8217;s EFL Cup win at Leicester in September and Conte says Ranieri&#8217;s input has been valuable in his first season in England.</p>
<p>&#8220;His experience here is very important for me,&#8221; Conte said.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you have another opinion, above all if this person is someone you respect a lot, it&#8217;s important. This type of chat helped me a lot.&#8221;</p>
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