The Conte Thread

[Antonio8 736]

11 hours ago, Styles said:

I just read a Conte quote which tells me everything I need to know about him.

When discussing Juventus' Champions League chances, Conte replied: "You can't go to a €100 restaurant with €10." Since Conte left, Juventus have been to the Champions League final twice.

He is Mourinho lite.

 

and lose both of them 

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Before I start, I genuinely STILL don't want him to go.

However, 

I think it's painfully obvious he's fallen out of love with the job and wants out himself. That makes me incredibly sad, we have turned one of the most passionate, articulate, and decent guy managers into a shell of his last season persona. I know it's easy to just throw the blame at the board but for me this one is a no-brainer. He's been massively let down. I think if this was the ruthless Roman of years ago, he would have gone a month or so ago. 

The way I see it playing out is like Ancelotti, where we see it through until the end of the season( hopefully get top four) - Can't see it. And then let him go once the final game is over. I can literally see it happening minutes after the final whistle. I think he wants to go and the board won't hesitate to be shot of him.

I also think the players know he's going. I can't speak for last night because I couldnt watch but there's an underlying feeling that theyre just playing out the season to see who's next. 

In terms of replacements, thats a depressing list of options. I saw an Arsenal Fan on Arsenal Fan Tv ,make a surprisingly excellent point, it's all good wanting a manager out but you need to see who is realistically around or available, otherwise be careful what you wish for, 

Enrique fills me with zero confidence, Simeone is too much like Conte and Jose to last long. Allegri won't leave Juve for us. Next season is looking pretty bleak, I don't mind if Tibo goes, I'm sick and tired of his constant flirting with Madrid despite so-so performances for months. Hazard on the other hand would be a disaster,

Looks like we're set for another rebuild in the summer. Deja vu anyone??

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

He will walk into a top job next season for sure where as we will appoint Luis Enrique or some second rate manager. Exciting times ahead. Pity that it looks so clear that he will go because I think if we could show that sort of performances like the two v Barca and first half of United without individual errors then we would secure top 4 no problem.  

[Azpinator 2,325]

Who's in charge of TC's Facebook page? 👀

 

[oldportblue 547]

3 hours ago, Azpinator said:

Who's in charge of TC's Facebook page? 👀

 

when it's not stuff like this, it's clickbait BS like "find out which chelsea star wants conte out" and when you click on it it's a don balon article about morata with no quotes... TC social media posts are an utter embarrassment to be honest

[oldportblue 547]

regarding conte, i love his passion, love the way his teams are usually defensively solid, love his character... but let's not act like he doesn't have his flaws. He never, ever won a single cup as manager, not even a coppa italia when he had by far the best team in italy for 3 years, not even a league cup or fa cup when we were better than all the other top english teams. We lost to an embarrassing arse side in the final ffs... Also, he seems to expect to get *exactly* what he wants from the board in terms of signings or else he sulks, and keeps bringing it up literally every single press conference. I understand he expected to be backed more after his first year success, and arguably should have been, but when that hasn't happened, you should just get on with rather than sulking for months on end. It rubs off badly on the players, the fans, everyone and isn't conducive to success.. the atmosphere among the players for the city game was rock bottom in regards to delivering the most uninspired performance i'd ever seen (or one of) and tbh, i put the blame for that on conte and his constant sulking/emo attitude.

Having said all that, the board has undoubtedly also been at fault as there are rumors conte wanted lukaku and the board twiddled its thumbs towards the end of last season and beginning of summer rather than aggressively going in for him (MU were already talking to him and eventually got him). However the fact that the board didn't want to spend 80M on alex sandro is fully understandably imo.... and conte reportedly wanted players like carroll, crouch, llorente, barnes so he's not exactly the ultimate undisputed transfer market talent identifier either.

All in all, happy we had him, happy for the great joy he gave us last season but will also be happy when we move on from this saga as it seems conte's relationship with the board, the club, the fans, the players will never be the same as last year after all his sulking, emo attitude and uber negative football (v. city especially)

[the wes 7,212]

Antonio Conte accuses Chelsea board of failing him after missing out on key targets: 'Last season, we won the title... and you saw our transfer market

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5511139/Antonio-Conte-Chelsea-failed-transfer-market.html

[Henrique 9,133]

10 minutes ago, the wes said:

Antonio Conte accuses Chelsea board of failing him after missing out on key targets: 'Last season, we won the title... and you saw our transfer market

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5511139/Antonio-Conte-Chelsea-failed-transfer-market.html

Again...

[Amblève. 4,995]

On 15.3.2018 at 6:59 PM, oldportblue said:

when it's not stuff like this, it's clickbait BS like "find out which chelsea star wants conte out" and when you click on it it's a don balon article about morata with no quotes... TC social media posts are an utter embarrassment to be honest

If that's the way to keep site alive I'm totally okay with it.

[DDA 9,690]

8 minutes ago, Amblève. said:

If that's the way to keep site alive I'm totally okay with it.

It feels like this site doesn't hsve half the users actively posting like it use too.

[Tomo 21,733]

18 minutes ago, DDA said:

It feels like this site doesn't hsve half the users actively posting like it use too.

Doesn't even have a quarter. There was an influx of trolls around 2013 time who were left free to cause havoc on here for months, it frightened away numerous quality posters, most of whom haven't returned to this day and the trolls most likely frightened away potential new members too. 

This place when i joined was genuinely the best forum i have ever visited, today it's unrecognizable to those days.

[DDA 9,690]

1 hour ago, Tomo said:

Doesn't even have a quarter. There was an influx of trolls around 2013 time who were left free to cause havoc on here for months, it frightened away numerous quality posters, most of whom haven't returned to this day and the trolls most likely frightened away potential new members too. 

This place when i joined was genuinely the best forum i have ever visited, today it's unrecognizable to those days.

It's a real shame. I have always liked the way this forum is run. I honestly do think that when the Admins abolished the 'member of the month award', there was a decline in the quality and number of posts from many memebers.

[BlueSunshine 672]

3 hours ago, DDA said:

It's a real shame. I have always liked the way this forum is run. I honestly do think that when the Admins abolished the 'member of the month award', there was a decline in the quality and number of posts from many memebers.

I respectfully disagree, quality has nothing to do with popularity. Actually, most of the times those two things are opposite, popularity is being determined by how the masses perceive something and masses rarely take into account (or are even aware of) the actual quality of that thing. Especially in our days with the use of the social media, this has become even more evident than ever before, people say/act solely with the purpose of being accepted or liked by as many others as possible without even caring if they are true to themselves.

That "member of the month award" was meaningless imo and if people stopped posting entirely because it was abolished, then we are better off without them for sure. I can show you a million examples of posts made by "unpopular" members being entirely neglected, only to be followed by a post made by a "popular" member some time after, saying exactly the same thing and receiving 10 likes. This of course is always going to happen, with or without an award, but there is no need to turn a football forum into a popularity contest and that is what was happening back then.

 

[Jase 43,479]

5 hours ago, DDA said:

It's a real shame. I have always liked the way this forum is run. I honestly do think that when the Admins abolished the 'member of the month award', there was a decline in the quality and number of posts from many memebers.

One of the reasons or if not, the main reason why it got abolished because people constantly made a big fuss over the winner. If 'Person A' won it, then some members would moan why he/she won it when 'Person B' should have gotten it instead, every single time. Was meant to be a fun thing but it became something people constantly argued over with.

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

8 hours ago, Tomo said:

Doesn't even have a quarter. There was an influx of trolls around 2013 time who were left free to cause havoc on here for months, it frightened away numerous quality posters, most of whom haven't returned to this day and the trolls most likely frightened away potential new members too. 

This place when i joined was genuinely the best forum i have ever visited, today it's unrecognizable to those days.

Wasn't there also an incident a while back where an administrator (or a mod) banned a long term member for being "too controversial" which several moderators disagreed with and ended up quiting as a moderator ? I think Choulo was one of them.  Probably didn't help either.

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, Belgiannutt said:

Wasn't there also an incident a while back where an administrator (or a mod) banned a long term member for being "too controversial" which several moderators disagreed with and ended up quiting as a moderator ? I think Choulo was one of them.  Probably didn't help either.

Nah. @CHOULO19 "chickened" out of the forum for other reason. 

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

10 minutes ago, Jason said:

Nah. @CHOULO19 "chickened" out of the forum for other reason. 

Memories a bit fuzzy but i do remember there was a lot do to about it when "Lionsden" was banned. 

[Jase 43,479]

6 minutes ago, Belgiannutt said:

Memories a bit fuzzy but i do remember there was a lot do to about it when "Lionsden" was banned. 

I need to go clean my brain dust because I can't remember who Lionsden is.