The Conte Thread

[LAM09 6,547]

Steadily losing faith in him. His squad selections baffle me

[Milan 17,835]

As Tomo mentioned, he has some real problems against the British managers. Forget the results, even the performances are awful.

[Styles 9,790]

Gone by the end of the season

 

Can't wait.

Moses for Zappacosta ffs
 

[FabHazard 655]

His tactics are too conservative and defensive minded....But if there are quality players in attack that can be compensated....Conte is doing his  best he can with this squad....Board needs to  buckle up ...Conte should also improve in transfer market ...He should not target average players like barkley

[Jase 43,479]

18 minutes ago, milan.cech said:

As Tomo mentioned, he has some real problems against the British managers. Forget the results, even the performances are awful.

Don't think today's performance is down to British managers. It's just a simple case of a team parking the bus and we have no clue how to break it down.

[xPetrCechx 13,546]

Conte adds that it was a good performance and the defenders did well to guard against counter-attacks, but we must be more clinical with our chances.  #EVECHE

 

Really Sherlock? Our main problem, we cant finish.

Against Huddersfield too.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

His making a lot of fans fall out of love with the game 

[DDA 9,570]

13 hours ago, Vybz Kartel said:

His making a lot of fans fall out of love with the game 

A bit dramaric !

[Henrique 9,133]

Conte 2017 version is easily the most boring, unexcinting and infuriating manager ever. Only Barcelona clash can save his conservative ass and his last century tactics.

[Jase 43,479]

23 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Get Conte the hell outta here man. 

Losing/Drawing to Brexit manager after Brexit manager. 

Bring in Allegri or Tuchel in the summer. 

Do you want Conte out because you're not happy with his decisions or match results? I don't mean this as a criticism of your opinion but just a general response to this 'Conte OUT' talk. Have seen many fans calling Conte to go because they are not happy with his decisions. Sure, Conte has made dodgy decisions in/for some matches since he's been here and deserves to be criticized for them but it's rather contradicting that most of us, if not everyone, has craved for some managerial stability, for the manager to stay at least 3-4 years and build something good but want him gone ASAP because of some decisions, even when results - over the course of the reign - are generally good. Every manager in the world makes dodgy decisions and no will agree with them all the time and each of them has their some flaws that may annoy us all to death but are we seriously gonna call for him to be tossed aside solely based on them, even when he's delivering good results on the pitch?

It feels like we have been here many times before with previous managers. At this rate, we'll be just left with the Sean Dyches, Eddie Howes of this world to hire in the future. If Conte is making dodgy decisions and not delivering the results, then fine. You can seriously question his ability to lead this side to success and maybe sack him but he is delivering the results and given he won the title in his first season with a relatively average squad, would like to think that gives him some credibility/leeway when talking about sacking him. And I know this may sound cliche at this point but not sure if anyone else is capable squeezing out results with the current squad. All good talking about bringing someone like Tuchel in but we don't have the players to play his style and if we don't get players that's capable of implementing that, then we will just end with another AVB situation, especially when Tuchel doesn't do pragmatism and is not the best when it comes to organizing defences. His Dortmund side, for instance, tended to concede plenty of stupid goals and there's almost one every game.

This is probably a long shot given how we have operated in recent years but genuinely hoping that Man City's dominance this season has given the board the 'kick up the arse' treatment and back Conte in future transfer window (windows?) so that we can sustain our challenge for the major trophies season in season out. Conte must be cursing his luck when it comes to transfers. Wanted more at Juventus but didn't get it and now experiencing the same here. He's been managing average squads, filled with some quality here and there, and not able to show what he can do with an actual quality squad. Give Conte the players that HE wants and see how he does. If he does well, then yay. If not, then we can start looking elsewhere. No manager is gonna survive here if they aren't given sufficient backing by the board.

[Laylabelle 9,296]

That's the issue he ain't a miracle worker! Only so much can be done with this squad... It was obvious after the poor window its be a long window and whoever came in if he went would have the same issue. Some dodgy selection and sub choices but we don't have that player that can make a impact at the moment.. 

[the wes 7,212]

Chelsea have tasked head scout Scott McLachlan with filling the hole left by former technical director Michael Emenalo, according to reports

 

http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/24/chelsea-appoint-temporary-replacement-michael-emenalo-7183104/?ito=cbshare

[BlueLyon 9,359]

I check whats new about Conte and I see last few pages of this Conte out shit.

Unbelievable.

[the wes 7,212]

4 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

I check whats new about Conte and I see last few pages of this Conte out shit.

Unbelievable.

Nothing shocks me on this forum mate its been the board has let us down more than conte this season 

[Jase 43,479]

On 12/25/2017 at 2:48 AM, the wes said:

Nothing shocks me on this forum social media mate its been the board has let us down more than conte this season 

Fixed. The ones on Twitter are even worse!

[Reddish-Blue 2,223]

4 hours ago, BlueLyon said:

I check whats new about Conte and I see last few pages of this Conte out shit.

Unbelievable.

I honestly don't know what fans expect from him. 

He can't work miracles without any backing in the transfer window. 

We were clearly lacking in terms of fullbacks and wingers heading into the season.  The board do nothing about it apart from signing Zappacosta on deadline day (who has looked average at best).

You replace Conte with any other attainable manager and I doubt we would be in top-4. 

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

Do people know what they're even saying? Conte out? Fucking hell. I'm hearing a lot of complaining about not being fluid going forward and not threatening defensive teams like Everton enough etc etc. 

The fact of the matter is if you're watching the games with close eyes you'll notice that there are no problems in terms of movement, creating and finding half spaces, making triangles between players, etc. The 'only' thing missing right now is the end product. We would have won against Everton with two proper wing backs. The amount of space that was offered to Moses/Zappa/Alonso and the little they provided is absolutely scandalous. With a better winger than Willian, at least one of those flicks would have worked and we'd have probably scored against Everton. 

If you're looking for a team that looks absolutely clueless and void of any attacking movement then you should look back at Mourinho's 15/16 side. It's funny how people's minds forget things so easily. That team would barely score a goal that wasn't an opposition mistake or simply an individual moment of brilliance. We couldn't even pass the ball out from the back.

With this team, we're making the right movements, we're very good at building from the back, our pressing after losing the ball is quite good. What is missing is the little bit of quality from our players. We have great players in this team, but we also have bang average ones starting week in week out. 

With Alex Sandro Sandro, Sidibe (or any other very good rwb) and a better back-up striker than Batshuayi I bet we'd have at least 9 points more than we do at the moment. It's criminal how we have such poor wing backs in a Conte system - where wing-backs are supposed to play a huge role. None of our wing-backs are great at beating players 1v1 (Alonso is absolutely shocking). None of our wing-backs are good at beating the opponent's press and driving forward with athleticism. They also have terrible end product (Alonso is only good at shooting - given the right amount of space and time only). They alongside players like Willian absolutely no genuine quality from open-play in games where we need them. I'm not even talking about scoring an outrageous goal or making phenomenal passes, I'm talking about having the basic qualities like the ones I mentioned for wingbacks, and not fucking up passes at the end of great movements. This is the problem of lack of quality in the squad, and it was not addressed by the board in the summer. 

[Unionjack 7,531]

All this Conte out malarky is total bollox. Not what you were all saying last fuckin year.It was the coming of Christ almighty at the end of the season! But if he doesn't get the support he needs and obviously asked for (just as Mou did) then what do you expect when our closest rivals all upgraded their starters.Now we know how Gooners felt when they were/are sleeping in the transfer market.

And how many managers have we had with the bottle to play a 17 year old? You've all whined about not letting youth have a chance well he's doing it.

I want him to stay and just upgrade the squad.