The Conte Thread

[Jase 43,479]

Some good stuff on Conte here...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/these-football-times/2017/feb/22/antonio-conte-trapattoni-lippi-ancelotti-sacchi-chelsea

http://www.chelseafc.com/fans/chelsea-pitch-owners/cpo-news/antonio--antonio--antonio-.html

[Unionjack 7,531]

3 hours ago, Jason said:

Some good stuff on Conte here...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/these-football-times/2017/feb/22/antonio-conte-trapattoni-lippi-ancelotti-sacchi-chelsea

http://www.chelseafc.com/fans/chelsea-pitch-owners/cpo-news/antonio--antonio--antonio-.html

Yeah just read those. He seems to be relaxing moreand finding his feet both at work and home.

Anyone know where he lives?

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.espnfc.com/chelsea/story/3067300/antonio-conte-visits-england-rugby-squad-for-inspiration-and-tactical-ideas

[Jase 43,479]

Have to say, for all the good things Conte is doing, he's quite questionable when it comes to making substitution. Could have been sitting here and talking about points dropped had it not been for Pedro and Fabianski.

[Laylabelle 9,381]

Yeah there has been some odd choices. He did have a habit of making late ones so least stopped doing that..just bit hmmm at the moment 

[the wes 7,212]

no manager has had more wins after their first 26 Premier League games than Antonio Conte, who now has 20 victories under his belt.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Chelsea equalled their club record of 12 consecutive home wins in all competitions by defeating Swansea City at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/8/main/2017/02/25/33060212/chelsea-equal-club-record-as-title-charge-continues-against

[Barbara 15,149]

some people should be banned from this thread... honestly.

Is the expectation for Conte to be perfect? He's already making something out of the this world with the players we have. Nobody could predict this team could have turned out to be this solid and that's down to Conte and how he works to maximize players' strengths and minimize their weaknesses. That's down to the manager, who has a great environment, deals the disgusting media with grace and class, set the players on fire, found a system that works with players such as Alonso, Matic, Moses, Pedro - that have their positives, but also many limitations.

He recovered players such as Hazard - who had the worst season of his life last year, Costa, Cahill, Luiz (even if he was out, he was the same as he was here). Gave solidness to our defense without compromising the attack. He basically made 3-4-3 a thing again, didn't invent it, but refreshed it.

Now we must nitpick on his faults. Ok, I don't like his fake hair (although better than bald, he wouldn't make baldness work), he looks really weird in some candid pictures, and worst of all, he doesn't sleep well because of football.

I have minor critics to some decisions, I just don't see the point of bringing them up when he's doing much better than expected, none of them compromise and there is no thing such as perfect people, perfect professionals.

[Fulham Broadway 16,920]

6 minutes ago, Barbara said:

Now we must nitpick on his faults. Ok, I don't like his fake hair

  We could be 20 points clear and there would still be mongs here moaning

[Pizy 18,418]

Give the man whichever targets he desires in the summer and keep hold of our key players and we'll be right in there with a chance for the CL trophy. Just imagine how good we'll be with slight upgrades in a few positions...

We'll have an insane amount of money to spend, a manager who gets the best out of even average players, and the lessons learned from the last time we won the title and didn't invest. He deserves to get whichever realistic targets he requests if he delivers a title in his first season, dramatically outperforming our target of a CL place.

[Jase 43,479]

Maybe we should just shut down the forum. I mean, what's the point of having one if people can't even mention a legit point.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

A team that came 10th last season and looked clueless and disinterested. 12 months later we have an eleven point lead and are playing some scintillating football and that's down to Conte and people still aren't happy well what the fuck sort of expectations do you have ?. It's just moaning for the sake of it and it makes us as Chelsea fans look spoilt and ungrateful. Did anyone honestly think in August that we'd be in this sort of position come the end of February no of course fucking not so stop whinging and get behind the team.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

26 minutes ago, Barbara said:

Now we must nitpick on his faults. Ok, I don't like his fake hair

He's very popular in Germany where he's known as Herr Piece.

[Spike 12,049]

35 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

  We could be 20 points clear and there would still be mongs here moaning

Gotta keep the trolls, mongs, nay-sayers and twats around to keep things interesting. If not I should've been banned after one post...

[Spike 12,049]

17 minutes ago, Iggy Doonican said:

He's very popular in Germany where he's known as Herr Piece.

'ken hell cunt 

[Leif 6,006]

What are these walls of text & lowkey comments aimed at? You read back the last 3 pages which includes posts from the same people and there's nothing but praise bar one valid comment on pg 185 that some of his decisions are 'odd', which they are, which is fine, because from some that would be a compliment. 

What the fuck is this mini outburst? Is it towards ghosts? Past demons? Find me 2 forum members not in love with Conte, because I'd struggle.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

On 21. 2. 2017 at 9:05 PM, 11Drogba said:

I am surprised that you don't think the world will collapse before 2018. You get more positive each day.

He is just pissed that Griezmann is not coming here

[manpe 10,861]

19 minutes ago, Leif said:

What are these walls of text & lowkey comments aimed at? You read back the last 3 pages which includes posts from the same people and there's nothing but praise bar one valid comment on pg 185 that some of his decisions are 'odd', which they are, which is fine, because from some that would be a compliment. 

What the fuck is this mini outburst? Is it towards ghosts? Past demons? Find me 2 forum members not in love with Conte, because I'd struggle.

Same here, can't make out who are those people who "should be banned" and for which comments. Barbara's and Iggy's outbursts look just so random to me.