The Conte Thread

[Henrique 9,133]

Bold question:

Is Antonio Conte the worst manager to ever win the Premier League? Its really hard to choose between Conte, Mancini and Pellegrini.

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

Conte has taken a massive hit on his reputation with this terrible coaching and running of Chelsea.

 

If you don't resign you are just going to ruin your chances of getting a better job somewhere else.

 

 

[Milan 17,956]

10 hours ago, Mana said:

I agree. While we played slightly better football this season and may finish 5th/6th, no match in 15/16 scarred me as bad as 17/18.

You know what is the worst? This season could still be even worse. We face Saints in the FA Cup semis. We may win or lose the tie, and in case of winning we face Man United or Spurs in their home basically. The thought of losing the final to Spurs or Mourinho is sickening. Not to mention Conte's poor cup record.

[Fernando 6,585]

Season was over some time. Players are not playing for anything. 

So no point in making a big fuss out of yesterday. 

[Special Juan 28,141]

Rumors doing the rounds he's gone.

[Costa19 858]

7 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Rumors doing the rounds he's gone.

Where? 

[!Hazard! 3,394]

7 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Rumors doing the rounds he's gone.

Elaborate on this?

[jernej93 569]

15 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Rumors doing the rounds he's gone.

I hope it's true He doesn't want to be around anymore and doesn't want to change or try something ... Put an interim manager (Joe Edwars or Jody Morris) that will try some players and formations for next season.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

The rumours were on twitter Nizaar Kinsella, and Darren Lewis from The Mirror shot it down

[Tomo 21,751]

16 hours ago, Azpinator said:

Revisionist history.

The 15-16 team couldn't build up to save their lives. As bad as we are right now, we still are capable of creating chances.

I know fans often like to romanticize the past and compare it favourably to the present, but they are really taking the piss doing that with the 15/16 season, jeez.

[El P. 1,354]

On 09. 04. 2018. at 0:25 AM, Mana said:

To me it is. Or maybe he doesn't know any other tactic apart from the damn 3-4-3 formation. Even dinosaur Wenger changes his tactics when he is under pressure, and tries to switch it up (even though he fails at times) but at least he was trying something different.

Well, I think he has made a lot of mistakes. His subs are always somewhat too late, also players like Emerson and Giroud should've been given more chances.

But, he tried 3-5-2. He tried 3-4-3 with false 9. He tried Cesc as CAM, he tried Cesc in 2-man midfield. He tried some things. Reverting to 4-man defense, with this squad which is really suited for 3/5 in defense, isn't really a problem. I mean, yes, we are desperate, but changing to 4 in defense with this squad would be just that - one desperate try, an empty shoot, so what happens happens. You all must be thinking - well, we cannot do any worse than this. Well, guess what - WE CAN.

No one can convince me that Azpi - Christy - Rudy - Alonso defense would bring us anything special.

We actually have the worst defense, by names, in top-5 now. There is a reason why we play with 5 defenders - to cover all their weaknesses. Even Liverpool have brought VVD and are looking solid and better than us now, no need to mention Spurs or City.

[Fulham Broadway 17,311]

He's definitely not content and probably con temporary.

I'll get my coat....

[Jase 43,479]

5 minutes ago, Mana said:

Fuck all of the posters who said/agree this season isn't as bad as 2015/16. It's almost the same, just higher league position.

We are freefalling and there's no sign of us stopping.

Terrible terrible season. Conte out now.

To be fair, we're just doing 2015/16 in reverse...

[Milan 17,956]

Well, in 2015/16 we also came back at Southampton when our main objectives were gone  

[Johnnyeye 7,501]

15 minutes ago, milan.cech said:

Well, in 2015/16 we also came back at Southampton when our main objectives were gone  

can they do the same in the FA Cup semi? we'll see what this lot is really made of

[manpe 10,861]

1 hour ago, Mana said:

Fuck all of the posters who said/agree this season isn't as bad as 2015/16.

Go fuck yourself perhaps.

[manpe 10,861]

Just now, Mana said:

No fuck you. Like, how dare you say I can't remember what happened in 2015/16. I do remember. You're talking as if we had no good games in 2015/16.

You're talking as if we had no good games in 2017/18. So fuck you.

[Fernando 6,585]

2 minutes ago, Mana said:

Eh, that's the point. Both seasons are almost as bad as each other. I said 'almost' as this season is narrowly beating 2015/16. I would have definitely equalled it if we had lost today.

Can't compare one was horrible from the beginning. So bad by November. There's was a lot of stuff to play for. 

This time we are bad when there's not much to play for. 

Guess everyone checked out for the world cup already. 

[manpe 10,861]

5 minutes ago, Mana said:

Eh, that's the point. Both seasons are almost as bad as each other. I said 'almost' as this season is narrowly beating 2015/16. I would have definitely equalled it if we had lost today.

Nah mate I'm just kidding. You have every right to have that opinion, but in my mind personally 15/16 was far worse. At least we never were 1 point above relegation at any time this season and it was clear we were out of CL by October that season. This season we started dropping from 2nd place to 5th (for now), in 15/16 we had to climb from 17th(!!!!) to 10th... that was just unbelievable for defending champions. For me, those seasons are comparable only in the slightest, 15/16 was an absolute disaster in terms of results, table positions and performances were also much worse.

[manpe 10,861]

2 minutes ago, Mana said:

Just to let you all know, I've calmed down...I said the "fuck you all" in rage because we were 2-0 down (at the time) and were playing like pussies. Chelsea were really knocking me down with the constant bad performances. I apologise.

However I think we have to agree to disagree on the performances this season v. 15/16. Everything else about 15/16 was worse, but the performances I really don't see any difference. If it wasn't for Giroud and his determination to get a goal back, we would have lost today. The same way I've been seeing in 15/16 and parts of this season.

Giroud was allowed to score those goals because we were attacking their box and creating chances. In 15/16 we wouldn't have been able to penetrate in any way even, 0 shots on goal would have been another day in the office.