Faced with almost unanimous opposition from the Chelsea faithful, Benitez has not won in three games yet and saw his team lose to West Ham yesterday.

"No, I am not 100% certain (to stay until the summer), said Benitez afterwards. "But we didn't win and if we had won the game we would be happy now. We have to win games to change things.

"My concern is improving the team and if we do that and start winning games, we'll be able to turn things around. The main thing for me is to improve the team. I'm not thinking about anything else. And if we improve on the pitch, the fans will be happy."