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Conte is a dead man walking, but Mike Dean isn't making things easier. One unfair red car and one penalty after a dive.

Whats the point of the whole video thing. That was a stupid dive.

AAAHAHAHA. What a dive!!!

Conte has been as disaster this season. His selection is shocking. The team buy two new players and he starts the game with Zappacosta out of position and Hazard as a false 9. He is asking for the axe.

Bakayoko has been awful, but that wasn't even a foul, let alone a yellow card.

WTF? That was not even a foul!

The best player hidden between the opponents' CB playing as a false 9...great.

What a horror show. lol

Bakayoko shocking.

"Willian, Hazard, Pedro." Heaven help us.

My point is: what benefit would come from Conte openly expressing his feelings in the press? I don't agree he made effort to silence his critics, its more like he is sending dubious messages than anything. Off course the transfer window was pretty poor, and Conte is not the one to blame, but I'm talking about feeding the press with vibes. When someone ask him about the lack of transfers, instead of sending a positive message for the fans, he did exactly the opposite, making the squad look worst than it really is. For example, instead of saying: "Well, we just won the league, we are thinking about long term in this transfer window. Our goal is to be strong in every competition, but if we can't win everything, the fans must stay positive because I'm sure we are building something really big for the future." Instead he come with stuff like this: "We have to buy more players, because we will play in Europe this season, we will have a busy schedule, to fight in all competitions we have to buy players, the squad is small, and we can't challenge with clubs like City if we don't buy more player. We need more players....one last thing: we definitely need more players". As you can see here, as soon as he arrived he was complaining about lack of new players: https://www.balls.ie/football/antonio-conte-laments-chelseas-lack-of-activity-in-the-transfer-market-344202

I don't agree with some parts. -Conte is pretty one dimensional. He does not have a plan B, and no one can say otherwise, and at this point its clear that even if the squad had more depth he would be playing with 3 CB. Playing with 3 CB is something really bold, that I don't think you can even say going from 3-4-3 to 3-5-2 is moving from Plan A to Plan B. He just rely on the idea of playing with 3CB. If the team is playing against the worst team of the league, and one of the CB receive a red card, he would drop any player of the team to introduce another CB, because his idea of football is built around a team with 3CB. Thats obvious a this point. -He isn't joking. In this forum people say Chelsea don't have the same ambition as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or PSG. Those teams are doing exactly what you said can't be done: going after a manager every 2 years. Long term vision is not hiring a manager and then letting this manager stay for 10 years. Long term vision is basically building a core squad that will last for years, despite the managers that are in charge. This is how those "ambitious" clubs work. Managers are seen as "coachs". They are in charge now, and might have a say in some transfers if they are on pair with the club transfer policy, but if the coach leaves next month, the squad will be there for another one do the job. Alex Ferguson aside, you won't find any club of biggest european leagues in past 20 years that were successful for many years with a long term manager. Usually the successful managers stays for 2 or 3 years, then leave for another job or get fired as soon as the bad results appear, despite the past success. Its not something usual in Premier League, because for many years United pretty much represented the idea of a successful team in England. So there is this myth that a team must let the manager do the job in order to achieve success during many years. The same United already fired 2 managers after SAF retired. Arsenal to his side have been mediocre for years, and they will continue to be as long as Wenger is on charge. Arsenal is the perfect example that having the same manager for years is not a magical formula for success. What Chelsea is doing since Abramovich bought the club is not different from what other big clubs are doing in other big european clubs. Those clubs have always been ruthless with managers. Conte will leave soon, and another one will follow. Then this new manager will stay for 2 or 3 years if he is successful (or will get axed after months if things go wrong), then another one will follow, but some people will still be waiting for the Chelsea's Alex Ferguson. People should make peace with the idea that managers come and go and the river roll.

This. Chelsea managed to be the first club to win the Premier League and then start the following season in a crisis, and it was all down to Conte: 1- He created the Diego Costa situation. 2- He never made any effort to stop those news saying he was unhappy with the lack of transfer activity and wanted to go back to Italy. 3- When Matic was sold he made it clear that he was unhappy to see the Serbian leave. In the beginning of the season I said he was probably the most stupid Chelsea manager ever in terms of his relation with the press, because he is feeding them with sources to create negative headlines week after week. One example was Luiz not even making the bench in the game against United. After the match he came with the bullshit of "it was tactical decision", It was pretty obvious it wasn't, specially he said in the same interview that he didn't know if Luiz had a future in the club and when even a kid like Apadu made it to the bench. It was clear something was wrong. So in the same day the press discovered there was a major burst-up between Conte and Luiz. So Conte had to answer questions about Luiz for weeks. In one of those press conferences was annoyed cause he was asking the same questions week after week. I just thought: well, thats what happen when you gives ammunition to the media. Even if some burst up happened between Luiz and Conte, leaving Luiz on the bench would send the message that he was being dropped due to poor performance. Nobody would see a big deal in that, and nobody would be writing negative stuff about Chelsea right after a big win against United, and he would not be receiving questions about his relationship with Luiz. But instead he wanted to play the big badass guy in the town, and didn't think about the consequences. Now week after week we read about Conte complaining, complaining and complaining. Seriously, not even Mourinho created so many bad vibes around the team as Conte. Mourinho never had full control on the transfer market, sometimes he gave us hints here and there, but he never came up with things like "I have few influence on the transfer market". Now he is even asking the club to release an official vote of confidence. Geez.

What a clown. Scoring in his debut.

At this point I can't understand people that don't realize Conte is limited as fuck. For me its pretty clear its not a question of not getting enough players. If we had better players we would still be playing with the same strategy, and with the same system that is created around the 3CB idea. Conte is a manager coming directly from he past century. There us circlejerk around that Conte is the victim of "the board" because he is not getting the players he want. Pretty funny, because none of the players the wanted would really improve the team. He wanted Lukaku, Sandro and Van Dijki. Lukaku is a downgrade on Diego Costa (and so is Morata). The last thing this squad need is another ultra expensive CB, and while many people here talk about Sandro as he was Roberto Carlos or Cafu, he is not the kind of player that would avoid the team losing 3-0 for Bornemouth. Conte is also showing a character that is even more annoying than Mourinho's worst side. To be honest I can't wait to see he leaving.

Before Conte was appointed he was far from an exciting name. Nobody here was saying "OMG, we are getting Conte!!! That guy is dope as fuck!!!". People got on board the hype train after Italy good run in 2016 Euro. If Conte is sacked and a new manager achieve some success, everybody will forget Conte, and will say the same things people are saying now about Conte: -How can we sack Luis Enrique after what he achieved in the past, specially when people are saying we replace him with Tom, Dick or Harry? I remember 8 years ago I was the only member here asking Carlo Ancelotti to get fired, while people was saying he had to say 10 years. Weeks ago there was a rumor that the board was considering his name to replace Conte, and the consensus here was it was going to be a pretty stupid thing to do.

i can't believe he still is in charge after yesterday result.

Atlético is shite this season. That result was not as big as we thought.

With this result the team is now in 4th place, and with Spurs only 2 points behind...

Thats bullshit. The team play with 3CB, and because 1 player is out you concedes 3 against Burnemouth. This is the result of a team with no command at all.

Conte must be fired ASAP if we want to save the season and play UCL next season. You just can't accept this result.

I think its the other way: he is probably being vocal about transfers because he does not have a future here, so he probably don't give a damn anymore and and is not afraid to express his feelings.

Lets be honest: Bat is shite. The man makes Kalou look a world beater.

I will miss those classic new player+Emenalo pics, but I have to admit new players + Marina is sooo much better:

Conte's fate was sealed when he created Diego Costa's situation. He is no more than a okay one-trick manager at the end of the day.