Ruud van Nistelrooy is committed to his Leicester City contract and suggested he would remain in charge should the club be relegated to the Championship.
City are in a fight for their Premier League future after a run of 10 losses in 11. They’re now five points from safety, and a Wolves win over Fulham on Tuesday night will take the gap to eight points.
While there are still three months of action for City’s fortunes to change, they increasingly look likely to drop back into the second tier.
Should they do so, van Nistelrooy has suggested he would honour his contract, which runs until the summer of 2027.
“I know what contract I signed,” he said at his press conference on Tuesday afternoon. “It wasn’t a contract for five months or six months.
“It was a contract, after this, for two more seasons. I was aware when I arrived what the challenge was and how difficult it could be. I was aware of that and committed to that future.”
In an emotional post-match press conference following Friday’s 4-0 thrashing by Brentford, van Nistelrooy said “with the squad we have, it's a huge mountain to climb to stay in this league”.
But on Tuesday, he put a more positive spin on matters, and suggested the mountain is scalable.
“We know every game we’re playing is difficult and everything needs to be right for us to get results,” he said. “We’ve noticed how hard it is to get results in the Premier League.
“We’ve managed to get some results where everything worked, where we had a bit of luck, where we changed the momentum of the game, we stayed in the game for long periods.
“Those moments are something we cling on to. We feel like we can do it. There were some performances where we deserved more, and there were some very poor performances where we didn’t deserve any more. That was Brentford and for example Everton as well.
“It’s a mixture. It’s consistency, within games and in a sequence of games. We can only keep working and keep believing and start again.
“I called it a mountain to climb but life is about climbing mountains and mountains are there to be climbed. That challenge I take.
“I’m in that process together with the team and we’ll keep climbing. We drop sometimes, we slip sometimes on the mountain but we get up and start again.”
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