Nick Mashiter
BBC Sport football news reporter

Leicester boss Ruud Van Nistelrooy remains committed to Leicester’s and insisted he still views his long-term future at the club.

The Foxes manager has lost 10 of his last 11 games, including Friday’s damaging 4-0 home defeat to Brentford.

Leicester are second bottom of the Premier League and five points from safety. They will fall eight points behind 17th placed Wolves if Vitor Pereira’s men beat Fulham at Molineux on Tuesday.

Van Nistelrooy takes his side to West Ham on Thursday and, despite the threat of an immediate return to the Championship, the former Manchester United striker is looking beyond this season.

He said: “I know what contract I signed and it wasn’t a contract for five months, it was, 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 and committed to the future.

“I called it a mountain to climb [after Brentford] but life is about climbing mountains and mountains are there to be climbed. That challenge I take. We will keep climbing and we drop sometimes, we slip sometimes on the mountain but we get up and start again.”

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