The Conte Thread

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"Chelsea have no doubts Conte to be in charge next season"

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-transfer-news-club-downplays-reports-of-a-bustup-with-antonio-conte-over-transfers-a3566416.html

 

 

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This talk of Conte leaving would be much more believable if we are still experiencing same situation this time next month. Right now, there's still time to sort things out and a tad too early to press the panic button.

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20 minutes ago, Jason said:

This talk of Conte leaving would be much more believable if we are still experiencing same situation this time next month. Right now, there's still time to sort things out and a tad too early to press the panic button.

It's not time to panic. It's a concern that so many reporters are saying Conte isn't happy but when panic mode will set in is a week or two after the Nike deal kicks in and we haven't announced anything. 

Until July 10th, I'll still give our board the benefit of a doubt. 

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This shows how fans clutch at straws to have a dig at the board

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50 minutes ago, manpe said:

It's been widely reported that Chelsea has a ~£200 million transfer budget this summer, and it also has been widely reported that Conte wants ~5 new players. Divide 200 by 5 and we may understand why the board doesn't want to splash too much on one player, considering the average price for those 5 players must be 40 million. Put 90 mill on Lukaku alone and the rest must come at 27,5 million average, for which you can't even get decent squad players anymore. Add in our stadium expansion plans and this could very well be the reason why we have been penny pinching despite all the money being thrown at us. Either that, or we have incredibly shit negotiators.

I hope this situation will be resolved quickly. If not and Conte walks, then Marina Emenalo (widely reported to be the main people behind transfers) must be fired ASAP. They are replaceable, King 'Tonio isn't.

It would be interesting to know what this £200mill is made up from.

Does it include players sold? And will it include the plaers that we will sell?

When Conte said we needed 6 players that was pre Costa. And with it looking like Matic is off thats 2 more starters needs replacing. I think £200 mill is a drop in the ocean to what we NEED.

I'm worried. It seems no matter how we look at it we wont get enough players to upgrade the starters let alone add depth.

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BREAKING NEWS

Antonio Conte is committed to Chelsea and will return for pre-season in the first week of July, according to Sky sources.

There were reports this morning that he's not happy with Chelsea over a lack of singings. But we understand he is happy at the club and those reports are false.

Chelsea are calm over the speculation, which they consider to be unfounded, and sources at the club say it is business as usual.

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If we are to challenge on all fronts and that means everything then it has to be a 300M summer. Elite players need to be purchased, such as Alexis Sanchez. No point scraping the barrel because come next season we will be left high and dry because we did fuck all about it. Another shite summer of Papa Djiliboji's won't cut it, those transfers windows need to be a thing of the past and all this scrambling in the remaining minutes of a transfer window come because we simply won't pay the money and it's quite frankly stupid.

If you want to be part of the elite then you pay elite money for elite players, very simple.

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11 minutes ago, NiclasCFC said:

BREAKING NEWS

Antonio Conte is committed to Chelsea and will return for pre-season in the first week of July, according to Sky sources.

There were reports this morning that he's not happy with Chelsea over a lack of singings. But we understand he is happy at the club and those reports are false.

Chelsea are calm over the speculation, which they consider to be unfounded, and sources at the club say it is business as usual.

Is that quote from sky sports they spelled signings wrong lol

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Someone pointed this out on Twitter and it's a good spot - since 2008, we have made officially only 2 signings in June (Deco and Fabregas). Most of our transfer business are done in July or August (remember the 2012/13 season?).

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11 hours ago, Tautvix said:

I don't think we have seen much news about Chelsea working on singing players from RELIABLE English media.

That's true and it is somewhat concerning but I see no reason to panic just yet. If we are forced to still have this conversation this time next month, then yeah, we can press that panic button.

Also, why have our transfer interest leaked out if we can keep it quiet?

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17 minutes ago, the wes said:

Is that quote from sky sports they spelled signings wrong lol

Kinda ironic that you of all posters on this forum call them out for misspelling...

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1 hour ago, xPetrCechx said:

Antonio Conte unhappy with Chelsea over transfer strategy

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10917096/antonio-conte-unhappy-with-chelsea-over-transfer-strategy

Only posted an hour ago, yet the link has disappeared and a new story saying Conte is happy has come out. Goes to show Sky Sports sources are clueless

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Oh not spelling again.

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http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10917284/chelsea-insist-antonio-conte-is-happy-despite-exit-reports

Conte committed to Chelsea: Sky