The Conte Thread

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

10 hours ago, Cosmin said:

If you are a cook and you need to make a cake, but you do not really have ingredients of the best quality, you still need to try and make that cake.

Conte is saying he's not being given the dough and it's giving him the kneadle 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Fernando 6,585]

He really screw up with the Costa thing. 

But I will still give him next season. 

We need to give managers another chance to redeem themselves. It might change things with how we work.

 

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

11 hours ago, Tomo said:

He's basically replicating Wenger's tenure at Arsenal, only instead of doing it in twenty years he's doing it in two.

That's because we're better than them at everything.

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, Fernando said:

He really screw up with the Costa thing. 

Christ! People still going on about that? Let's just pretend as if Costa hadn't wanted to leave!

[Fernando 6,585]

19 minutes ago, Jason said:

Christ! People still going on about that? Let's just pretend as if Costa hadn't wanted to leave!

Nah he handle it very bad. 

Conte is too infuriated. 

That was the beginning of his demise. 

Nonetheless I would still give him a go next season. 

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

On 5.3.2018 at 6:15 PM, Amblève. said:

If the club has any dignity left Conte will get the boot after yesterday's post-game comments.

what he said?

[Jase 43,479]

8 minutes ago, Fernando said:

Nah he handle it very bad. 

Conte is too infuriated. 

That was the beginning of his demise. 

Nonetheless I would still give him a go next season. 

Handled it badly? If Conte had really done that, we would have likely gone off the rails from January onward and lost the title. People often overlook the fact that Conte managed to keep Costa on board and group dynamic good for the last few months of last season. Maybe sending the message to say he's no longer wanted wasn't the best of ideas but even if Conte hadn't done that, there's no guarantee Costa would have stayed on, given how much he wanted to go back to Madrid.

[DDA 9,934]

Conte handled the Costa situatiom exactly how he should have, like a boss.

Costa was acting like a child. He got put in his place and instead of acting like a man and taking it on the chin (like Luiz) he sulked until he got his move.

The sad thing is with this club is that it doesn't take much to lose the dressing room. At the first sign of a season going bad the players act like a bunch of girls and start throwing their toys out the pram. 

 

[Polo7 3,496]

12 hours ago, Tomo said:

Players don't get free passes because of the past, so why should managers? Conte has done a poor job this season no matter what way it's spun.

Loads of players have got free passes in the past. We are talking about a manager that pulled us up from midtable to winning the league. Everyone knows he needed some decent investments to build on. 

[Tomo 21,751]

9 hours ago, manpe said:

Yes they do. Torres got a free pass for quite some time only and only thanks to his past. If he was a random no-name he wouldn't have been afforded 4 weeks let alone 4 years.

Im responding to Polo's comment which means im talking about the eyes of the fans. Kalou, Malouda and Anelka were getting the piss taken out of them the season after they helped deliver the double while the same success protected Carlo from a lot of criticism.

3 hours ago, Polo7 said:

Loads of players have got free passes in the past. We are talking about a manager that pulled us up from midtable to winning the league. Everyone knows he needed some decent investments to build on. 

You can blame the recruitment on the fact we are not retaining the title but the fact we are odds on to dive into Europa next season is a lot to do with Conte and his tactics, man management and manchild like behavior. The fact we were comfortably in top 4 and even looked a good bet for second till his latest episode makes this all the more hard to take.

[Blusan Alamb 295]

I will give Conte another year if he can finish in the top four.  

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

21 minutes ago, Blusan Alamb said:

I will give Conte another year if he can finish in the top four.  

Thing is bud he don't want to stay.

And he's on borrowed time with the board.

And the players are never going to try for him, patently obvious Sunday.

[oldportblue 547]

13 hours ago, bigbluewillie said:

Thing is bud he don't want to stay.

And he's on borrowed time with the board.

And the players are never going to try for him, patently obvious Sunday.

That's the key thing for me. Everything else aside, if you lose the players, you're basically done as a manager at a top club and based on the city performance, I feel he has lost the dressing room...

[Jase 43,479]

13 hours ago, Blusan Alamb said:

I will give Conte another year if he can finish in the top four.  

Why? Why give Conte another year when it's blatantly obvious that he doesn't want to be here? Why persist with him when he's not getting through to the players anymore?

Honestly, I don't know what's more surprising - the fact that he's still in the job or there haven't been any stories about his job being under threat. I don't wish anything bad on others but it's a stark contrast to say 6-7 years ago.