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Whereas Wenger is an old, stubborn fool who never seems to have plans in place in the transfer window, Conte has known for a while what's he's wanted to bring in and makes it sound like the club aren't able to. Wenger needs to be slapped in the face with a couple of poor results and a slow start each season before he realizes he needs to reinforce.
I feel like our club genuinely believe that Conte is a miracle worker and can simply reinvigorate the players we have and get top 4. Just like they did last summer with Mourinho.

Didn't watch the PC but I read the quotes and I got a lot of 'Wenger' vibes from them. I hope that he and the club aren't getting their excuses in early for us failing to get top 4 this season. 

Well that's not good news! Like I said expect another window like before where we were linked to top players and end up with merieles. Stop gaping will not work! Our defense is terrible and we won't keep clean sheets. 
I doubt we can make it until Jan being in a decent league position. Clubs don't even want to sell in Jan, this window was the best time to do business 

When you get managers like Mourinho and Conte who are not good for youth, then you will get little done....well to be fair Conte might a bit better then Mourinho in that situation. 
But you need to get managers like Pochetinno for that. 

Maybe because they waited one season and met the asking price of the selling club.
I am quite sure that Napoli will sell Koulibaly for 60 mio. next season

Well unrealistic targets became realistic for Man Utd and City... I just hope we don't become Arsenal because every class player is also unrealistic target for them.

Last year,Everton said that Stones in not for sale.After playing a shit year at Everton,Everton would of course sell Stones to the club that gives them the most money.City bought Stones for an big amount of money.Last year,Pogba did not want to leave.According to Pogba´s agent,Chelsea bid around 90 millions,but neither Juventus wanted to sell Pogba nor Pogba wanted to leave.That was a unrealistic target.
We could have gottenStones if we really wanted him,but Naingollan did not want to leave,Koulibaly and Romagnoli are not for sale,so that are targets that cannot be bought for any price.Don´t waste any time on unrealistic targets.
 

Meh, if this is how it's going to be done I hope he leaves soon. For his own sake.
Waste of a wonderful coach at this club.

We really must be brain damaged if we go for a Fiorentina player. As if they would even consider making business with us after the Salah fiasco.

He might resign after the end of season if the club continues with it's shenanigans. 
He left Juventus for this, why he should put up with something worse? 

Regardless of how much blame Antonio himself shares in this, he will be the one to bare most of the consequences. 

THIS is so true.If the board doesn't want to spend much money and what's us to develop players like Ajax,Psv,Porto,Benfica and others do then we shouldn't have appointed Conte don't get me wrong Conte can get the most out of his players and is much better with youth than Mourinho but he still needs signings.Look at Pochettino or Koeman they can't sign big players they will mostly use the youth and Evertoon and Tottenham don't have a really good youth but we probably have one of the best academy/youth and then someone like Pochettino/Koeman would be perfect for us.

Well we would never win anything by "developing players". But yh if we are going that way then the board must have got a coach who can develop young players.

We appear to be incapable of getting the defenders in that Conte wants so we go with what we have. I just hope the idiots on the board understand this (which I doubt) and cut Conte a bit of slack

I did not think there were more incapable managers of marotta I was wrong emenalo surpasses him even if only slightly.I feel sorry for Antonio is his destiny to be surrounded by incompetent people who do not want to spend and expect miracles from him.

Is it a really, really bad omen that the first thing I thought of reading that sentence was 'Arsenal'?

We need defenders, get them. Failure to employ them means heads should roll in the boardroom.
Every job at Chelsea seems cut throat bar for Roman's little army of yes men/women

Pathetic though isn't it, apparently as long as you're pals with Roman everything is going to be fine.

Yes and we attended before when we were shit, and will long after the Bucks stopped

FUCK OFF!

I would actually say full back is more important than centre back.
At least if we brought a full back it would free up Ivanovic to play at centre back when needed where he is a much better player and less exposed than out wide.
Also, if we only brought a centre back it would be a guarantee then that we would have Dave at LB and Ivanovic at RB for the rest of the season which is a lot worse than Terry and Cahill at CB.

Have you even watched Joao Mario outside of the Euros(which he was great at also)?
The Portuguese lads here you know, those who actually watch him on consistent basis, regard Joao Mario as one of the most talented mids in Europe. And before you say it's biased this viewpoint comes from the fans of sporting's rivals as well. 

Well there are some people who will probably say he also wasn't available  

Mario to Inter, surely means Brozovic to us.  Why aren't we the ones getting Mario?  Have we fallen that far without CL?

Doubt they did. There was quite a few targets, including Manolas and Bonucci that seems to have been true.
 
Still doesn't change that this is a huge failure of a transfer window, and absolutely pathetic. Even with Kante in, and Michy who seems very promising, not getting any proper defenders is such a huge failure. Now we will end up with trash similar to Papy and Miazga again.