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Antonio Conte has a hard job on his hands at Chelsea next season, and the club will be far less attractive to players without Champions League football, says Graeme Souness. Conte was named as Blues manager from next season on Monday, replacing interim Guus Hiddink was sacked in May.Chelseas form has improved since Jose Mourinhos departure, but the champions still sit 10 points off fourth place with just seven games remaining. Conte must first concentrate on Italy at Euro 2016 this summer Conte is currently building towards Italys Euro 2016 campaign in France, but Souness says the to-do list at Stamford Bridge will not be easy to tick off.Souness told Sky Sports: I think hes got a monster job on now, Chelsea this year have been disappointing to say the least. Will Conte fit Chelsea? With Antonio Conte taking over at Chelsea in the summer, what do we know about the Italy boss? They started as champions and never really got going. When Guus Hiddink come in you thought all their problems would be solved but they werent. Theyve been up and down all season, even with the lift a new manager gives you.I think Jose saw the writing on the wall, he knew he had been lucky to win the league last year, he must have driven them, cajoled them, bullied them, to get to that point to win it, and at the start of the season he wanted more players and better players, and for some reason he didnt get them. Chelsea are 10 points off the top four with seven games remaining That must have been the reason he fell out with whoever he ended up falling out with, and that would include the players. Looking back, Jose was right, because that group were not good enough to go and retain the title this year.Conte coming in, unless he can go out and buy some real quality, it will be another up and down season for Chelsea. Contes Chelsea to-do list Resolve John Terrys future, sort out transfer policy, rejuvenate Eden Hazard... Contes to-do list Chelsea won the league by eight points from Manchester City last season, but spent less in the summer of 2015 than they had the previous five seasons.Souness believes Conte will need substantial backing to improve the Chelsea side, but their potential absence from Europes elite club competition for the first time since 2002 will have a major impact. Jose Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea in December after a woeful start to the campaign for the champions Thats the dilemma [no Champions League], the attraction of Chelsea in recent years can be put to two main reasons, the wages plus the attraction of the Champions League. So there is no quick fix to Chelsea.Hes a different voice, has different thoughts. Does he have a magic wand? No coach has a magic wand, its all about players. Roman Abramovich (left) must back Conte substantially if Chelsea are to succeed next season, says Souness He has a hard job on his hands, so will need a lot of support from the owner, will have to buy well, and then Chelsea will be challenging again.Theyve still got the nucleus of a really good team, but the fact they really couldnt get going again when they replaced the so-called problem with Jose falling out with people, they didnt really go on from there. Also See: Contes Chelsea will win title Sidwell: Conte must keep Terry Conte sentence requested Will Conte fit Chelsea? Melvin Frazier Magic Jersey . - NASCAR announced a 33-race schedule for the 2014 Nationwide Series with virtually no changes from this years slate. Vince Carter Magic Jersey . Perhaps Carroll was so prepared for a break because he believes there is very little the Seattle Seahawks need heading into the off-season. "I dont see anything that we need to add. 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PHOENIX -- Welington Castillo took a week off to be with his wife and newborn son after there were complications with the boys birth.Everything is fine now, he said, and he celebrated his return with a big night at the plate in the Arizona Diamondbacks 10-6 victory over the New York Mets on Monday.Castillo matched his career high with four hits. He doubled twice, drove in two runs and scored twice for the last-place Diamondbacks, who swept three games from the Mets last week in New York.It felt good. My mind was free, Castillo said. Everything went fine. I have the baby at home, my wife, too. Theyre both really healthy so Im just here to do what I love to do.Bartolo Colon drew the first walk of his 19-year major league career but he lasted just four innings against Arizona. Colon said his left (non-pitching) wrist was sore when he was at bat and walked on a 3-2 pitch.That surprised me as well, Colon said through a translator. I dont know why that pitcher didnt strike me out. He could have. I really couldnt do much more at that point.Left-hander Robbie Ray (5-11), who threw seven scoreless innings in a no-decision against the Mets last Wednesday, allowed two runs and eight hits in five innings for his first victory in five starts. He struck out five and walked two.One of the walks went to the 43-year-old Colon on a 3-2 pitch in the fourth. It came in Colons 282nd career plate appearance.Thats really just unacceptable, to walk him like that, Ray said. There were two outs and, yeah, I walked him. But it wont happen again.According to ESPN Stats & Info, no other player in major league history had that many plate appearances without walking.It was the second first at the plate for Colon this season. On May 7, he became the oldest player in major league history to hit his first home run.Colon (10-7) allowed five runs, two earned, and nine hits.Castillo returned with his new baby in good health and the Diamondbacks, coming off a 16-2 loss at Boston on Sunday, welcomed him with a 16-hit performance, including seven doubles, a triple and a home run.Paul Goldschmidt had three hits, including a tripple and a double.dddddddddddd He scored three times. Yasmany Tomas hit a two-run homer off Hansel Robles in the eighth.Neil Walker had three hits for the Mets, including a solo home run in the ninth off Edwin Escobar, just called up from Triple-A Reno.Arizona scored three unearned runs in the first inning and led the rest of the way.Mets third baseman T.J. Rivera bobbled Jean Seguras grounder for an error to start the game.Michael Bourn, Jake Lamb and Castillo had RBI singles in the first, all on grounders up the middle.We didnt make a play, and after that they had four hits, Mets manager Terry Collins said. When you play behind Bartolo, you cant have many mistakes because they are going to put the ball in play against you.Trailing 8-2, the Mets scored three runs in the seventh. New York loaded the bases with no outs against lefty Steve Hathaway. Randall Delgado relieved Hathaway and walked in a run. Sacrifice flies by Rivera and Ty Kelly cut the lead to 8-5.Enrique Burgos, with a fastball hitting 97 mph, struck out the side for Arizona in the eighth.TRAINERS ROOMMets: OF Yoenis Cespedes (strained right quad) made his first rehab appearance since his injury, going 0 for 3 with a strikeout and an RBI groundout for Class A St. Lucie. He said in a statement released by the team that, If things go OK, I hope to be with the team in San Francisco. The Mets open a four-game series against the Giants on Thursday. Cespedes is eligible to come off the DL on Friday.Diamondbacks: OF A.J. Pollack (wrist surgery) has appeared in five rehab games for Class A Visalia. Hes batting .462 with two home runs, a double, four RBI and three walks.UP NEXTMets: RHP Noah Syndergaard (9-7, 2.75 ERA) gets the start Tuesday. He allowed three runs and eight hits, matching his most this season, during a 9-0 loss to the Diamondbacks in his last outing.Diamondbacks: RHP Braden Shipley (2-1, 2.96) makes his fifth major league start. He threw seven innings in that 9-0 win over the Mets last week. ' ' '