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'Shameful' Antonio Conte under attack over treatment of Chelsea ace
ANTONIO CONTE'S treatment of Michy Batshuayi has been branded as 'shameful' by a Belgian football expert.
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Batshuayi joined the Blues last summer in a deal worth over £30million from Marseille.
But he has struggled to establish himself at Stamford Bridge under Conte.
This season he's yet to start a single game in the Premier League as he has been forced to play second fiddle to Diego Costa.
The 23-year-old was linked with a move away in the January transfer window but Conte was reluctant to let him leave.
Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi
And analyst Jan Mulder has launched a scathing attack on the Italian coach.
Belgian outlet Walfoot quote him as saying: “What the manager is doing is shameful. To bring someone on for a second for nothing.
Michy Batshuayi with Antonio Conte
"Someone should go complain to the Association Footballers’ Union that what the employer is doing is humiliation.
"Really, I don’t accept that, and it’s not the first time either.”
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