The Conte Thread

[Italian fan 69]

27 minutes ago, petre.ispirescu said:

Thank you for your insight. I have a couple of questions for you.

1. It seems that Eden Hazard is a nailed on starter on the left wing, no doubt about that. But on the right wing Chelsea have Willian and Pedro who can play there and Cuadrado is coming back this summer. Wanted to ask you - what do you think Conte will do? Is Cuadrado one of his favourite players? Or at least he was when Conte was managing Juventus? Do you think he will prefer Cuadrado over Willian or Pedro?

2. How is Conte on the transfer market? You, asa a Juventus fan, looking over the current Chelsea squad, what do you think Conte will do? He will look to spend big in order to rebuild the squad, or try to do something with the players that are already here, maybe add one or two more?

3. And the last question - what tactics do you think Conte will use at Chelsea? 3-5-2 or 4-2-4?

 

Thank you.

I can try to answer 

1 Conte loves Cuadrado...he said it many times when he  was in Juventus... I don't think he changes his opinion...but i don't know who will play...

3 maybe I can make a mistake, but I think that he will not play with 3 defensemen...in Juventus there was Bonucci, you don't have a player like him....and I can nor find a similar defenseman...

 2 In Juventus Conte was not a manager...the key figures are Marotta, Paratici and Nedved...I don't know what power will Conte have in Chelsea...but I know one thing (like all the italians): the first thing to do is to fix the defence...

Edited May 30, 2016 by Italian fan

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start with transfers............!

[Italian fan 69]

Chelsea is very different from Conte's Juventus

1 There is no Bonucci (a defenseman that can make long pass like a top midfilder)

2 There is no Pirlo (one of the best midfilder in history)

I think that he will change his way to play. 

I will be very surprised if he doesn't buy a defenseman....and in Juventus he always wanted defensmen that can speak italian, so he can easily speak  with them...I think he will try to buy a defenseman that plays (or played) in Serie A 

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34 minutes ago, Italian fan said:

Chelsea is very different from Conte's Juventus

1 There is no Bonucci (a defenseman that can make long pass like a top midfilder)

2 There is no Pirlo (one of the best midfilder in history)

I think that he will change his way to play. 

I will be very surprised if he doesn't buy a defenseman....and in Juventus he always wanted defensmen that can speak italian, so he can easily speak  with them...I think he will try to buy a defenseman that plays (or played) in Serie A 

He's probably going to go with a 4-4-2 (4-2-4) We (Chelsea) have players most suited to that system, and he recently used it with the national team as well.
As you say, a 3-5-2/3-4-3 are not the most practical way to go as we (Chelsea) don't have any top defender at our disposal.
 

1 hour ago, Italian fan said:

but I know one thing (like all the italians): the first thing to do is to fix the defence...

This made my day  well said.
Welcome to the forum.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

47 minutes ago, Italian fan said:

I will be very surprised if he doesn't buy a defenseman....and in Juventus he always wanted defensmen that can speak italian, so he can easily speak  with them...I think he will try to buy a defenseman that plays (or played) in Serie A 

We're linked with Manolas and Rudiger these days, but frankly I'd prefer the club to transfer any other defender and put him on Italian lessons, rather than buy one of Manolas or Rudiger...

Bonucci is the only Italian defender I'd take here, but Juve will not sell unfortunately

[Italian fan 69]

1 hour ago, petre.ispirescu said:

We're linked with Manolas and Rudiger these days, but frankly I'd prefer the club to transfer any other defender and put him on Italian lessons, rather than buy one of Manolas or Rudiger...

Bonucci is the only Italian defender I'd take here, but Juve will not sell unfortunately

Sincerely, I think Manolas is a great player and probably better than all the defensemen in the Premier League.... if I were you, I will hope to see Manolas with my colours.

Rudiger, however, isn't good...Bonucci will not come to Chelsea, he will end his career with our colours. 

[Italian fan 69]

Season 2012-2013

In the first season in Juventus, Conte noticed 2 problems: left wing and strikers. So, the club bought Asamoah, Isla and Giovinco. There were also other operations, such Pogba, Bentner,….

The whole season we played with the 3-5-2, with this formation

Buffon

Barzagli-Bonucci-Chiellini

Lichtsteiner-Marchisio-Pirlo-Vidal-Asamoah

Giovinco-Vucinic

 

We won easily the Serie A and we went to the quarter-finals of Champions League.

If I should suggest you a match to see, I will say another time Juventus-Parma, the first of the season. In that match, the first goal was scored by Lichtsteiner, with a classical play of the Conte’s team: ball to the left, then cross and move of the other winger that scores.

In CL, very important were obviously the matches against Chelsea, but the most significant was against Bayern at the Allianz Arena…I think it was the first time Conte understood that there was teams that could win easily with us (fortunately today is not so)…

So, after the win of the Serie A, he tried to change the team, like against Torino when we played with 3-5-1-1 with Marchisio behind Vucinic, but it was not a good idea.

Conte understood two things: that team could play well only with 3-5-2 and needed new strikers.

That season was the first of Pogba in our team and at the beginning he hadn’t many chance, but Conte administrated him very well.

Tomorrow I will tell you the last Conte’s season in Juventus (2013-2014)

CIAO

[Italian fan 69]

Another 2 things about season 2012-2013:

1 Conte prefers a center midfilder that can make both long and short passes....when there wasn't Pirlo, he tried there Pogba, because he tought that he can do this...than he noticed that it was not his place and so there played Marchisio

2 he loves players like Giaccherini...when Emanuele went away, Conte was very angry...he likes him because he understood the movements that Conte wants...the best example was yesterday against Scotland: perfect pass of Bonucci, nice move by Giaccherini that miss alone against the GK...

 

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Nobody is expecting a first team XI of teenagers, but Conte has to somehow find a balance between a team that can challenge for the top honours without closing the door to those coming through the ranks.

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[Italian fan 69]

Season 2013 2014 (the last in Juventus)

To improve our results in CL, the club bought 2 top strikers: Carlitos Tevez and Fernando LLorente. Furthermore, arrived also Angelo Ogbonna (he played with us 2 season).

The tactic was always the same 3-5-2

Buffon

Barzagli-Bonucci-Chiellini

Lichtsteiner- Pogba -Pirlo- Vidal -Asamoah  (but Marchisio played many times)

Tevez-LLorente (at the beginning of the season played Vucinic with Tevez)

 

We were easily champions again, because the opponents couldn’t stop our new strikers: 102 points (record). We played some matches very well (like against Lazio in Juventus Stadium 4-1 (you should see the highlights, what a nice movements without the ball)), but that was not our best year: we were too strong, so we often we played very slowly, thus many matches were very boring (like Livorno-Juventus 0-2).

 

But the big delusion came from Europe…we went out against Galatasaray in the Group Stage of CL. In that situation, Conte received many critics: we played 4 horrible matches against Galatasaray and Copenaghen, because we were very slow to move the ball and very predictable…4 indecent matches…fortunately we received 2 penalties against Copenaghen in Torino, otherwise we will probably not defeat them.

But we played also 2 great matches against Real Madrid (2-1 in Madrid, 2-2 in Torino), with a different tactic: 4-3-3

Buffon

Caseres-Barzagli-Chiellini (in Torino Bonucci)-Ogbonna (in Torino Asamoah)

Vidal -Pirlo- Pogba

Marchisio -LLorente- Tevez

We deserved the victory in either the matches, but in Madrid Chiellini was expelled and in Torino we were very unluky….

Then, there was the Europa League…a tragedy…we knew that we were the best in that competition and we thought that we could win (the final was in Torino)…but we were defeated by Benfica…in that EL, we played 8 matches (2 Trabzonspor, 2 Fiorentina, 2 Lione and 2 Benfica), but only 1 good match (the second against Trabzonspor). If you want to see a terrible match, you should see the first against Lione (the most horrible Juventus’match I have ever seen).

That was the end of Conte’s adventure in Juventus…a fantastic Scudetto, but the delusion of Europe that was huge…

I hope that now you know Conte a little better….

CIAO

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

This was a good read. Grazie mille

[kellzfresh 7,229]

47 minutes ago, Italian fan said:

Season 2013 2014 (the last in Juventus)

 

To improve our results in CL, the club bought 2 top strikers: Carlitos Tevez and Fernando LLorente. Furthermore, arrived also Angelo Ogbonna (he played with us 2 season).

 

The tactic was always the same 3-5-2

 

Buffon

 

Barzagli-Bonucci-Chiellini

 

Lichtsteiner- Pogba -Pirlo- Vidal -Asamoah  (but Marchisio played many times)

 

Tevez-LLorente (at the beginning of the season played Vucinic with Tevez)

 

We were easily champions again, because the opponents couldn’t stop our new strikers: 102 points (record). We played some matches very well (like against Lazio in Juventus Stadium 4-1 (you should see the highlights, what a nice movements without the ball)), but that was not our best year: we were too strong, so we often we played very slowly, thus many matches were very boring (like Livorno-Juventus 0-2).

 

 

 

But the big delusion came from Europe…we went out against Galatasaray in the Group Stage of CL. In that situation, Conte received many critics: we played 4 horrible matches against Galatasaray and Copenaghen, because we were very slow to move the ball and very predictable…4 indecent matches…fortunately we received 2 penalties against Copenaghen in Torino, otherwise we will probably not defeat them.

 

But we played also 2 great matches against Real Madrid (2-1 in Madrid, 2-2 in Torino), with a different tactic: 4-3-3

 

Buffon

Caseres-Barzagli-Chiellini (in Torino Bonucci)-Ogbonna (in Torino Asamoah)

Vidal -Pirlo- Pogba

Marchisio -LLorente- Tevez

 

We deserved the victory in either the matches, but in Madrid Chiellini was expelled and in Torino we were very unluky….

 

Then, there was the Europa League…a tragedy…we knew that we were the best in that competition and we thought that we could win (the final was in Torino)…but we were defeated by Benfica…in that EL, we played 8 matches (2 Trabzonspor, 2 Fiorentina, 2 Lione and 2 Benfica), but only 1 good match (the second against Trabzonspor). If you want to see a terrible match, you should see the first against Lione (the most horrible Juventus’match I have ever seen).

 

That was the end of Conte’s adventure in Juventus…a fantastic Scudetto, but the delusion of Europe that was huge…

 

I hope that now you know Conte a little better….

 

CIAO

 

This shows he was very good in the league, but was poor in Europe without the wingers he wanted at Juve 

[Italian fan 69]

19 minutes ago, kellzfresh said:

This shows he was very good in the league, but was poor in Europe without the wingers he wanted at Juve 

The problem was that he hadn't a man that could dribble, that could make a decisive dribbling...we hadn't a man like that, the midfilders were raiders (I think this is the word, in Italian is "incursori",men that run without the ball in the space)and Tevez didn't make many dribbling....so we musted score with the long passes and the movements of Vidal, Pogba and Marchisio..for this reason Conte wanted Cuadrado, that can dribble the opponent and create numerical superiority...

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

56 minutes ago, Italian fan said:

The problem was that he hadn't a man that could dribble, that could make a decisive dribbling...we hadn't a man like that, the midfilders were raiders (I think this is the word, in Italian is "incursori",men that run without the ball in the space)and Tevez didn't make many dribbling....so we musted score with the long passes and the movements of Vidal, Pogba and Marchisio..for this reason Conte wanted Cuadrado, that can dribble the opponent and create numerical superiority...

Heard he left Juventus because he felt that 3-5-2 is not the best tactic for playing in Champions League and Conte wanted to switch to 4-3-3, but in order to do that he needed two top wingers (Alexis Sanchez and one of Cuadrado/Candreva/Nani). But Juve did not want to spend much money that summer, hence he resigned. Is it true?

[Italian fan 69]

6 minutes ago, petre.ispirescu said:

Heard he left Juventus because he felt that 3-5-2 is not the best tactic for playing in Champions League and Conte wanted to switch to 4-3-3, but in order to do that he needed two top wingers (Alexis Sanchez and one of Cuadrado/Candreva/Nani). But Juve did not want to spend much money that summer, hence he resigned. Is it true?

Sincerely, there were many problems between Conte and the leadership of the club...probably after the game with Benfica there was a big wrangle...I don't think that the money were the problem...thus in that summer we bought Morata (rumors said that he was a Conte's specific request)...probably he went away from Juve because he had problems with the managers (in particular Marotta)...

[Italian fan 69]

18 minutes ago, petre.ispirescu said:

Heard he left Juventus because he felt that 3-5-2 is not the best tactic for playing in Champions League and Conte wanted to switch to 4-3-3, but in order to do that he needed two top wingers (Alexis Sanchez and one of Cuadrado/Candreva/Nani). But Juve did not want to spend much money that summer, hence he resigned. Is it true?

Obviously Juve couldn't not spend much money like the top club (today the situation is different), but I don't think that money were at the centre of the problem...though he said (after the match with Bayern in 2012-2013): "Non si può mangiare in un ristorante da 100 euro con 10 euro" (you can't eat in a 100 euro's restaurant with 10 euro)...both fans and management remembered that words and I think that game was the beginning of the end of the experience of Conte in Juve...furthermore also in 2013' summer there were words about a possible resignement...

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5 hours ago, Italian fan said:

Season 2013 2014 (the last in Juventus)

 

To improve our results in CL, the club bought 2 top strikers: Carlitos Tevez and Fernando LLorente. Furthermore, arrived also Angelo Ogbonna (he played with us 2 season).

 

The tactic was always the same 3-5-2

 

Buffon

 

Barzagli-Bonucci-Chiellini

 

Lichtsteiner- Pogba -Pirlo- Vidal -Asamoah  (but Marchisio played many times)

 

Tevez-LLorente (at the beginning of the season played Vucinic with Tevez)

 

We were easily champions again, because the opponents couldn’t stop our new strikers: 102 points (record). We played some matches very well (like against Lazio in Juventus Stadium 4-1 (you should see the highlights, what a nice movements without the ball)), but that was not our best year: we were too strong, so we often we played very slowly, thus many matches were very boring (like Livorno-Juventus 0-2).

 

 

 

But the big delusion came from Europe…we went out against Galatasaray in the Group Stage of CL. In that situation, Conte received many critics: we played 4 horrible matches against Galatasaray and Copenaghen, because we were very slow to move the ball and very predictable…4 indecent matches…fortunately we received 2 penalties against Copenaghen in Torino, otherwise we will probably not defeat them.

 

But we played also 2 great matches against Real Madrid (2-1 in Madrid, 2-2 in Torino), with a different tactic: 4-3-3

 

Buffon

Caseres-Barzagli-Chiellini (in Torino Bonucci)-Ogbonna (in Torino Asamoah)

Vidal -Pirlo- Pogba

Marchisio -LLorente- Tevez

 

We deserved the victory in either the matches, but in Madrid Chiellini was expelled and in Torino we were very unluky….

 

Then, there was the Europa League…a tragedy…we knew that we were the best in that competition and we thought that we could win (the final was in Torino)…but we were defeated by Benfica…in that EL, we played 8 matches (2 Trabzonspor, 2 Fiorentina, 2 Lione and 2 Benfica), but only 1 good match (the second against Trabzonspor). If you want to see a terrible match, you should see the first against Lione (the most horrible Juventus’match I have ever seen).

 

That was the end of Conte’s adventure in Juventus…a fantastic Scudetto, but the delusion of Europe that was huge…

 

I hope that now you know Conte a little better….

 

CIAO

 

If you allow me I read a lot of exaggerations in your post.The third title was not easy roma made us work hard and is the reason why we reached the end of the season out of shape and with Vidal injured.With Copenhagen the problem was not having scored wasting more than 20 occasions .The best team is the one that wins on the field as any Juventus fan knows and not the one who thinks is stronger  Benfica at that time of the season was simply stronger than us and certainly much more smart did not steal anything.Speaking of disappointment in Europe in the two years of Conte is an exaggeration the group simply could not do more against Bayern in the first year and second year we missed a couple of games in CL for various reasons.One thing is to play with Morata, Dybala, Evra, Cuadrado, etc .. one thing to introduce you to the home of Bayern with Quagliarella,Matri,De Ceglie.We can speak of failure in Europe with the "second" Lippi and Capello certainly not under the guidance of Conte.