Antonio Conte is taking further legal action against Chelsea despite having already been awarded £9 million in a breach of contract claim against his former employers earlier this summer. The Times has learned that Conte was the claimant in a preliminary hearing held at the Central London Employment Tribunal last Friday as the bitter row between the two parties continues 13 months after the manager left Stamford Bridge.

Conte was the victor at a private manager’s tribunal convened by the Premier League in April, with a three-person panel ruling that Chelsea should pay him one year’s salary in compensation after failing to agree a severance package following his sacking in 2018, but while that matter is settled the Italian has brought another case against his