Antonio Conte (80 Viewers)
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I could report you, and you might get banned, but I am not going to.
In any case, you don't get flack because you are outspoken. It has to do with your attitude. I sometimes respect and acknowledge your opinions, and you can be a good poster when you choose to. However, it is the manner in which you address other members as if you are some superior specimen and hold a personal grudge/vendetta against them in almost every single one of your posts. You don't need to berate or insult others for disagreeing with you. If you learned to control your anger/rage and objectively (and in a calm manner) expose what you perceive as logical flaws in what other members say, you'd come across as a far more reasonable and amicable individual which will eventually result in others respecting you regardless of whether they agree with you or not (think Buck Fuddy, Red, X, Swag, Juve Jay, and the like).
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I don't quite understand why you are face-palming my post when I am advocating sticking to the 3-5-2 in Serie A, essentially agreeing with you. In Europe however, we need to be far more adaptable, especially against superior opponents like Bayern, Barca, and Madrid.
In any case, you don't get flack because you are outspoken. It has to do with your attitude. I sometimes respect and acknowledge your opinions, and you can be a good poster when you choose to. However, it is the manner in which you address other members as if you are some superior specimen and hold a personal grudge/vendetta against them in almost every single one of your posts. You don't need to berate or insult others for disagreeing with you. If you learned to control your anger/rage and objectively (and in a calm manner) expose what you perceive as logical flaws in what other members say, you'd come across as a far more reasonable and amicable individual which will eventually result in others respecting you regardless of whether they agree with you or not (think Buck Fuddy, Red, X, Swag, Juve Jay, and the like).
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I don't quite understand why you are face-palming my post when I am advocating sticking to the 3-5-2 in Serie A, essentially agreeing with you. In Europe however, we need to be far more adaptable, especially against superior opponents like Bayern, Barca, and Madrid.
This is actually becoming more funny than pathetic.
How do you interpret President’s yesterday words, who told everyone to look in their eyes? Maybe he’s seen a bit of arrogance and lack of concentration in the team. It’s the continue of a signal you’ve been speaking about in last times?
I don’t think I’ve given a single signal, it’s since the first days of July that I’m repeating some statements, and if you want I’ll repeat you once again (smiles, ndr). I mean that this year it will be very difficult, because after you win for two consecutive years come in some factors at a psychologic level and you might consider everything easy and expected, and there are new great opponents this year even in the league. However, when I spoke I was referring to everyone. I think the President wanted to give a strong signal to everyone, nobody excluded, so I’m happy that I’ve been a “precursor” of what President said yesterday, and I’m sure that my exhortation to be on the lookout has helped the team to start the season very well, because the table says so, and if I didn’t so the team would’ve been quite unprepared… But we must work to avoid what President said”
President added “We have to choose if to play well or win the Champions League”, Chiellini said “We came back stronger from Madrid”. After a few days, I’d like to understand which feelings that match left. And then if in tomorrow’s game there will be turnover for goalkeepers (a way to ask about Buffon’s bad form, ndr).
Well, I think this statement of the President has been misunderstood, even because I can’t think of another way to win if not to play well. If you play bad, luck can help you for 2-3 matches, but when you play well, there’s organization, players play like with a copycat, the team looks like an orchestra, you play well and win, and this has been our philosophy for the last two years and even these two monts, and it will keep being it, it can’t be otherwise, cause we don’t aim to win just some single matches, we aim to the final victory, and to do that you have to play well. That’s what our fans got used to in last two years and we’re trying to do it even this year. For sure in an important match like the one against Madrid the President prefers to play bad and still win, instead of leaving the pitch in Bernabeu’s cheers but with a defeat. That was his meaning, and I can assure it because I have daily chats with him. However, I think the way to follow is the one of the good playing who gives you good results, and we have to keep on this road. About tomorrow’s match, we have to restart to do good things in the league, when we recently met the first defeat after six win and a draw. It’s an important match, we know that we’ll have to use a lot of physical and mental energies, but we’re ready, the guys in last two matches gathered much less than what they seed, but I’m sure they’ll react well, even because I’ve intelligent players, who are the first one to be self-critical (referrence to Buffon?, ndr), and I don’t often have to give tips to them from that point of view, cause they already know. About the turnover, we’ll do some choices tomorrow in regard of what I’ve seen in Madrid, but also based on following games, we’ll try to do reasoned rotations, we’ll see.”
Goalkeepers’ turnover?
You know, goalkeepers’ turnover is something particular, there’s gotta be good reasons and the necessity of that. If there’s the necessity and something is told me by the goalkeepers concerned, in that case there should be goalkeepers’ turnover.
You said President’s message is directed to everyone, so even to you. In what ambit do you think he wanted to invite you? Then you said that for tomorrow’s game you’ll decide even on what happened in Madrid. You were referring just to players or even to the playing system (4-man defence, ndr)?
Returning – and now I hope we’ll stop the questions about what President said – to this thread, of course when President talks he can’t say “X, Y, Z, you don’t have to do this, instead A, B, C, you’re doing it well”. When president talks, talks to everyone, and so do I. Then in the words you have to understand who’s directly involved, who isn’t and who’s doing his best to let this “machine” give his best even this year, as happened in the last two. So, honestly, if you ask me if I feel “touched” by that speech, I don’t. About the playing system, we have the luck, the ability, the possibility, to play with two different systems, with these footballers, even if Pepe’s absence doesn’t help us to start a match with 4-3-3, and we’ll try to use’em at their best, even changing in the middle of a match. It happened a year ago against Inter, we started the match with 4-3-3, then switched to 3-5-2 and won the match (March 25th 2012, Juventus-Inter 2-0, ndr). It can happen that we start with 3-5-2 and then switch to 4-3-3 and hope to win the match and get better. We always try to work to gain some improvements, and to be stronger and more propositive”.
How are the injured players doing? Is there the possibility to recover Vucinic and Lichtsteiner for Wednesday?
About injured players, both Vucinic and Lichtsteiner are following the recover program, those weren’t little injuries, and having an highly qualified medical staff, they’re working hard to make them reach their fit form again. I totally believe in them and I hope that quickly, even if not immediately, they will be available again. For sure it’s not a lucky period from this point of view, especially for the attacking players, as even Giovinco is having a problem at his feet since Milan match. The guy to be available is subject of anti-pain injection before every match, so I compliment him for this. We even hope to have soon at disposal Fabio Quagliarella. We have to grit our teeth especially in attack, because it’s a difficult moment, having to play always the same players there.
Marotta yesterday said that it would be crazy to think to search another trainer and leave a winning coach like you. In this case it’s better a handshake than a signature on the contract, I’d say. But are you prone to this handshake? With the board? Have you talked about it with the Pres? Or you’ll se how season goes and make your valutation at the end?
Look, I take this question to underline a very important and chatted argument. When I was talking about destabilization, there’s even this false story that I’d be at loggerheads with Marotta, with the board. That’s totally false. This is part of the destabilization that someone’s doing to don’t make us win even this year, they try to convince that there are problems in Juventus board, between us and that we’re trying to break everything. I think that in two years we created something really incredible, some kind of war machine who in two years won four trophies without spending money and everybody can see this, because yesterday we talked of our healthy financial situation, but what matters most are results you get on the pitch. The results tell that in two years of my management with these players we won almost every competition we’ve been playing in, because we won 2 Italian Leagues, 2 Italian Supercups, we lost a final and a semi-final in Coppa Italia with questionable refereeing, in the first Champions League partecipation we’ve arrived in last eight going out against the final Champions. I think that doing more than what we did was impossible and I have to say that if Juventus found a new international appeal it’s because of the great work we had on the pitch, mine and of my players, united to the board’s work, on the transfer market, we’ve done something unbelievable and extraordinary. But we know it’s not enough, in football you always have to think to tomorrow, what you’ve done yesterday doesn’t matter anymore, the important thing is that we know this. I said this on May, let’s work this “machine” if we wanna repeat last year’s success.”
I don’t think I’ve given a single signal, it’s since the first days of July that I’m repeating some statements, and if you want I’ll repeat you once again (smiles, ndr). I mean that this year it will be very difficult, because after you win for two consecutive years come in some factors at a psychologic level and you might consider everything easy and expected, and there are new great opponents this year even in the league. However, when I spoke I was referring to everyone. I think the President wanted to give a strong signal to everyone, nobody excluded, so I’m happy that I’ve been a “precursor” of what President said yesterday, and I’m sure that my exhortation to be on the lookout has helped the team to start the season very well, because the table says so, and if I didn’t so the team would’ve been quite unprepared… But we must work to avoid what President said”
President added “We have to choose if to play well or win the Champions League”, Chiellini said “We came back stronger from Madrid”. After a few days, I’d like to understand which feelings that match left. And then if in tomorrow’s game there will be turnover for goalkeepers (a way to ask about Buffon’s bad form, ndr).
Well, I think this statement of the President has been misunderstood, even because I can’t think of another way to win if not to play well. If you play bad, luck can help you for 2-3 matches, but when you play well, there’s organization, players play like with a copycat, the team looks like an orchestra, you play well and win, and this has been our philosophy for the last two years and even these two monts, and it will keep being it, it can’t be otherwise, cause we don’t aim to win just some single matches, we aim to the final victory, and to do that you have to play well. That’s what our fans got used to in last two years and we’re trying to do it even this year. For sure in an important match like the one against Madrid the President prefers to play bad and still win, instead of leaving the pitch in Bernabeu’s cheers but with a defeat. That was his meaning, and I can assure it because I have daily chats with him. However, I think the way to follow is the one of the good playing who gives you good results, and we have to keep on this road. About tomorrow’s match, we have to restart to do good things in the league, when we recently met the first defeat after six win and a draw. It’s an important match, we know that we’ll have to use a lot of physical and mental energies, but we’re ready, the guys in last two matches gathered much less than what they seed, but I’m sure they’ll react well, even because I’ve intelligent players, who are the first one to be self-critical (referrence to Buffon?, ndr), and I don’t often have to give tips to them from that point of view, cause they already know. About the turnover, we’ll do some choices tomorrow in regard of what I’ve seen in Madrid, but also based on following games, we’ll try to do reasoned rotations, we’ll see.”
Goalkeepers’ turnover?
You know, goalkeepers’ turnover is something particular, there’s gotta be good reasons and the necessity of that. If there’s the necessity and something is told me by the goalkeepers concerned, in that case there should be goalkeepers’ turnover.
You said President’s message is directed to everyone, so even to you. In what ambit do you think he wanted to invite you? Then you said that for tomorrow’s game you’ll decide even on what happened in Madrid. You were referring just to players or even to the playing system (4-man defence, ndr)?
Returning – and now I hope we’ll stop the questions about what President said – to this thread, of course when President talks he can’t say “X, Y, Z, you don’t have to do this, instead A, B, C, you’re doing it well”. When president talks, talks to everyone, and so do I. Then in the words you have to understand who’s directly involved, who isn’t and who’s doing his best to let this “machine” give his best even this year, as happened in the last two. So, honestly, if you ask me if I feel “touched” by that speech, I don’t. About the playing system, we have the luck, the ability, the possibility, to play with two different systems, with these footballers, even if Pepe’s absence doesn’t help us to start a match with 4-3-3, and we’ll try to use’em at their best, even changing in the middle of a match. It happened a year ago against Inter, we started the match with 4-3-3, then switched to 3-5-2 and won the match (March 25th 2012, Juventus-Inter 2-0, ndr). It can happen that we start with 3-5-2 and then switch to 4-3-3 and hope to win the match and get better. We always try to work to gain some improvements, and to be stronger and more propositive”.
How are the injured players doing? Is there the possibility to recover Vucinic and Lichtsteiner for Wednesday?
About injured players, both Vucinic and Lichtsteiner are following the recover program, those weren’t little injuries, and having an highly qualified medical staff, they’re working hard to make them reach their fit form again. I totally believe in them and I hope that quickly, even if not immediately, they will be available again. For sure it’s not a lucky period from this point of view, especially for the attacking players, as even Giovinco is having a problem at his feet since Milan match. The guy to be available is subject of anti-pain injection before every match, so I compliment him for this. We even hope to have soon at disposal Fabio Quagliarella. We have to grit our teeth especially in attack, because it’s a difficult moment, having to play always the same players there.
Marotta yesterday said that it would be crazy to think to search another trainer and leave a winning coach like you. In this case it’s better a handshake than a signature on the contract, I’d say. But are you prone to this handshake? With the board? Have you talked about it with the Pres? Or you’ll se how season goes and make your valutation at the end?
Look, I take this question to underline a very important and chatted argument. When I was talking about destabilization, there’s even this false story that I’d be at loggerheads with Marotta, with the board. That’s totally false. This is part of the destabilization that someone’s doing to don’t make us win even this year, they try to convince that there are problems in Juventus board, between us and that we’re trying to break everything. I think that in two years we created something really incredible, some kind of war machine who in two years won four trophies without spending money and everybody can see this, because yesterday we talked of our healthy financial situation, but what matters most are results you get on the pitch. The results tell that in two years of my management with these players we won almost every competition we’ve been playing in, because we won 2 Italian Leagues, 2 Italian Supercups, we lost a final and a semi-final in Coppa Italia with questionable refereeing, in the first Champions League partecipation we’ve arrived in last eight going out against the final Champions. I think that doing more than what we did was impossible and I have to say that if Juventus found a new international appeal it’s because of the great work we had on the pitch, mine and of my players, united to the board’s work, on the transfer market, we’ve done something unbelievable and extraordinary. But we know it’s not enough, in football you always have to think to tomorrow, what you’ve done yesterday doesn’t matter anymore, the important thing is that we know this. I said this on May, let’s work this “machine” if we wanna repeat last year’s success.”
Thats what i hope, and that all this is comments are faschade to weight off pressure from the media.... but on the inside when talking to the board and players he is like "fuk we can and we are so going to do this, its just that i have to shrug off those bastards from us".
Its just that is annoying we as fans just can see the "3rd scudeto too hard" or the "2 7th place finishes " yada yada...which seems pessimist. Or the "we are outsiders". That was th worst.
Even when wanting to invent excuses for the journalists.... saying practically "it was obvious we were going to lose because we cant compete and we are not worthy of this comp".... is jus too annoying to hear.
Even when we were playing with 11 molinaros.... we should go out there believeing we have 11 zidanes and able to win.
Its just that is annoying we as fans just can see the "3rd scudeto too hard" or the "2 7th place finishes " yada yada...which seems pessimist. Or the "we are outsiders". That was th worst.
Even when wanting to invent excuses for the journalists.... saying practically "it was obvious we were going to lose because we cant compete and we are not worthy of this comp".... is jus too annoying to hear.
Even when we were playing with 11 molinaros.... we should go out there believeing we have 11 zidanes and able to win.