The Conte Thread

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People underrate our board. We have made some quality signings. If Luis, Lukaku, KDB stayed we would be a lot happier. Those players should never have been pushed out. 

[manpe 10,861]

2 hours ago, Unionjack said:

Antonio Conte denies wanting more control over Chelsea transfers

Really not liking this bit

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10804927/antonio-conte-denies-wanting-more-control-over-chelsea-transfers

Why? Nothing we didn't already know, by now it's been a pretty wide knowledge that Granovskaia and Emenalo are our main managers of transfers. Doesn't mean that they pick and choose every single player.

[Tomo 21,733]

59 minutes ago, BoyBlue96 said:

If they fuck up again like last 2 seasons, expect Conte to leave Chelsea much sooner than 2019/2020. 

He left Juventus for the exact same reason. Because their board also failed to deliver in his eyes. 

 

53 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

I'm afraid so would I mate.

Being manager of the supposed current best team in England and not being able to pick my own players would send me crazy.

But Shirley that would be an important term in the contract before ytou signed it. Specially if it was said to be a problem with the previous mnanger too.

But it seems Conte is calling BS on the problem so we shall see in the summer.

Why are people so defensive over the board having a say in transfers? If we left it totally to the manager's Drogba would have been shafted out for Adriano, just saying!!!!!

[Unionjack 7,531]

9 minutes ago, Tomo said:

 

Why are people so defensive over the board having a say in transfers? If we left it totally to the manager's Drogba would have been shafted out for Adriano, just saying!!!!!

 

18 minutes ago, manpe said:

Why? Nothing we didn't already know, by now it's been a pretty wide knowledge that Granovskaia and Emenalo are our main managers of transfers. Doesn't mean that they pick and choose every single player.

So youre happy with our manager not being in charge of or at least having a veto as far as transfers go?

It leads to spending £30 odd million on players that keep the bench warm because the manager has no faith in his playing ability.

He has at least earened the right to be given that chance to fuck up by himself.

Who knows, IF Mou was given the chance to bring in players the summer after we won (which is the sensible thing to do after a winning season) then things might just have turned out alot different

I am only surmising that Mou wasn't allowed transfers. It may have been his reasons we didn't do business that summer as I stated above.t

[the wes 7,212]

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/chelsea-conte-i-am-happy-i-want-to-stay-at-chelsea-for-many-years

Conte happy at chelsea 

[Henrique 9,133]

On 13/03/2017 at 8:39 PM, iceboy said:

I missed that. Priceless. 

[Unionjack 7,531]

14 minutes ago, Henrique said:

I missed that. Priceless. 

You can hear him if hes on form where I sit in in MH anf could just hear he was shouting.

I broke into a chorus of

"Hello Hello Conte Agro Conte Agro"

[Unionjack 7,531]

Tactical fouling of Eden Hazard is a matter of ‘respect’, insists Conte

The top 10 most fouled players in the Premier League this season

Eden Hazard – 75

Wilfried Zaha – 72

Diego Costa – 62

Paul Pogba – 58

Dele Alli – 52

Adam Smith – 50

Ashley Barnes – 50

Joe Allen – 49

Erik Pieters – 47

Raheem Sterling – 45

http://www.squawka.com/news/antonio-conte-not-worried-about-opposing-teams-targeting-chelsea-winger-eden-hazard/920727#h08q7YkRexKy7IJC.99

[Unionjack 7,531]

Interesting read

 

Where is the love and respect for Chelsea’s incredible resurgence?

http://www.footballfancast.com/opinion-2/where-is-the-love-and-respect-for-chelseas-incredible-resurgence

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

People need to realize that our managers actually have a big influence on our transfer targets. You just need to look at which players we 've been linked with since we signed Conte as our manager. 

The majority of them are either Italian or play in the Italian league. Clear examples are players like Koulibaly and Nainggolan. In the summer we made a number of bids for both these 2 players.

I mean yes sometimes the board themselves recommend a promising player (like Batshuayi) to the manager but i'm certain that they first discuss it with the manager before buying.

I don't get why people have such difficulty with the board having the final say on transfers. Whether it's a board or a manager both will have bad transfers and good ones.

 

Also i'd like to point out that we actually did go for Stones and Pogba in the summer after our PL title. It was reported that we made bids for both.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

 

 

 

[cfcs most wanted 657]

13 hours ago, Belgiannutt said:

 

 

Also i'd like to point out that we actually did go for Stones and Pogba in the summer after our PL title. It was reported that we made bids for both.

Thank god we missed both

 

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

 

I LOVE THIS MAN!

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Amazing :-D :-D love love his reaction and the passion he shows. As said before its nice having him have headlines for the right reasons..:-D 

[Fernando 6,453]

Yeah that made my day. 

We got the best coach.... Or second best because simeone is also great, but I'm so happy with him. 

Definitely the best coach we have had since Mourinho Mark 1.

[Unionjack 7,531]

His celebrations are getting longer. He wants to congratulate everyone and say ta to the fans,

(Video) Antonio Conte goes crazy after Chelsea defeat Stoke City to go 13 points clear at the Premier League summit

http://www.caughtoffside.com/2017/03/18/video-conte-goes-crazy-as-chelsea-go-13-points-clear/

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Sod the weird angle camera options you get need one on him! Not getting super ahead but unless we mess up big time his reaction when we win the league will be amazing :-)... 

Weird to think we had the month with no wins..

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

11 point gap at the 70th minute mark 1-1, bet Mourinho would have been happy with a point away from home and we'd have played a dull game until the end. 

Conte took a defender off, changed tactics, kept pushing at all costs and it payed off. Such a change in mentality, totally transforming the club from top to bottom and we're not even the finished article yet.

No more drama, controversy, silly mind games, negative tactics, no more bad press.

He's given this club a new identity and although Chelsea is hated from right to left, I bet there's a lot of neutrals saying "wow they really ditched negative tactics, they really are a fun team to watch."

Give the man a new contract and let him decide on transfers. Club's going into the right direction. Amazing time to be a Chelsea fan.