Antonio Conte (179 Viewers)

[pitbull]

The point that Mark is making, and it is the same one that I made a couple of weeks ago, is that if you put him in a position where all he needs to worry about is coaching his players, he's phoenomenal. One of the best out there.

Get the rest of the bullshit club politics out of the way, and give him a blank canvas to work with on the Azzurri.

he brings a WC or Euro championship to Italy, and his status will be legendary from here on out.

but that's true for all the coaches, put them in shitty environments with lots of obstacles and they'll do worse than they potentially can. if Simeone had great resources at Atletico, he'd probably be winning a lot more. if Conte at Chelsea had ManCity's or ManUtd's resources, he'd possibly be winning the league again and challenging for CL, but that's life, some have it better and some worse.

I think it's hard for any relevant coach to sacrifice two years to work with a national team for that one month long tournament that's so far away, I can totally understand Conte not wanting to do that, for 2 years you'll mostly get criticized for not picking that or that player, not relying on youth enough or not playing pretty enough. and it's not like you can win an important game to shut them up - there're no important games until that tournament.

if he and Chelsea parts ways after this season, I think he'll look around for a good project that can compete in CL in long term and I hope he finds one. PSG, Bayern, possibly United, Arsenal, Juve etc. will have positions open, so some shuffling of coaches will happen this summer.

 

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[Juliano13]

This guy will never learn when to shut up. Another embarassing interview. Clearly he'a gone into Sven Goran Eriksson mode, actively looking for the sack to pocket the compensation.

 

[icemaη]

Link?

 

[s4tch]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...s-Chelsea-face-season-defining-two-weeks.html

that's the most recent interview i could find. just usual manager talk, nothing special i guess.

 

[Juliano13]

http://www.espn.com/soccer/chelsea/...te-hints-that-chelsea-dont-match-his-ambition

 

[Vialli_92]

They have enough quality to at least score against Man City, looks like he has given up and is no longer interested in being Chelsea coach

 

[DAiDEViL]

Poor Antonio. Never has any money to spend

 

[Xperd]

5 pts off 4th spot

Looking likely they won't make CL next year

 

[s4tch]

5 pts off 4th spot

Looking likely they won't make CL next year

tick-tock, tick-tock

i wonder when he has that call from abramovich

 

[Stephan]

Wants to get sacked.

Azzurri waiting.

 

[Ventus]

Wants to get sacked.

Azzurri waiting.

I'm hearing that quite a lot actually.

 

[Stephan]

I'm hearing that quite a lot actually.

Well if he gets sacked he gets a nice payoff compensation.

 

[Ventus]

 

[Stephan]

Last summer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40765686

 

[Hist]

If he wins against City or Barca he effectively proves management right and himself wrong. Its almost by design that the team has a good performance then throws it away with a gift in the end. Once he is in the "give me more transfer money mode" he holds himself and the team back. If he makes top 4 and doesnt get the sack by some miracle, he should have the decency to quit just like he did with us.

 

[Vialli_92]

Their players are so average it's worrying how they can sell Costa and Matic and reinvest the money on mediocre players

Conte throwing his toys out the pram is not helping the situation and he should be much more professional than the way he has acted this season

No doubt he will not be Chelsea manager come August

Only question for him now is what's next for him?

 

[Pirlo's Beard]

If he wins against City or Barca he effectively proves management right and himself wrong. Its almost by design that the team has a good performance then throws it away with a gift in the end. Once he is in the "give me more transfer money mode" he holds himself and the team back. If he makes top 4 and doesnt get the sack by some miracle, he should have the decency to quit just like he did with us.

Disgusting attitude, and i'm not sure because if he just went full on attack mode they'd get smashed by several goals so it'd make more sense to do that without everybody criticising you for being negative

At any rate that Chelsea - City game was embarrassing, it's not even a 'defensive' tactic to literally let your opposition pass it for 90 minutes without so much as jogging towards them. It was like a fixed match.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

Poor Antonio. Never has any money to spend

And there’s people wanting him back here

Imagine the complaints with ’s austerity style mercati.

 

[ALC]

Disgusting attitude, and i'm not sure because if he just went full on attack mode they'd get smashed by several goals so it'd make more sense to do that without everybody criticising you for being negative

At any rate that Chelsea - City game was embarrassing, it's not even a 'defensive' tactic to literally let your opposition pass it for 90 minutes without so much as jogging towards them. It was like a fixed match.

well he does have a history of doing those...

 

[Cerval]

L'Equipe says he's the number one priority for PSG