Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

[Rout-Ledge]

He’s never seemed like he really wants to be here to me. Right now it seems like he’d rather be anywhere else (but still taking our money of course).

 

[soup]

He was terrible because Son was back in the team and they have no chemistry (yet).

It was also his first start as CF for us.

I feel for the lad.

He only got limited game time at RWF, where he can't play.

Then when he scored vs Marseille he soon found himself on the bench, then he got injured.

Since he returned hes been getting minutes here and there despite Son being woeful.

He gets hos chance, the team lool better.

One bad performance and he's back out the team again.

And Conte called him to come!!

He's also had far fewer trainings sessions but played far better in just a few weeks with Brazil at the WC.

 

[rossdapep]

I don't really agree that he's a defensive coach as such.

I mean he wants his side CBs to be ball players and find passes into the AMs and WBs to get really high.

Last season at the end I thought we were very enjoyable and had attacks in waves for periods. Never did that under Jose.

Jose was a disaster for coaching anything other than the low block.

I think the biggest issue is that its far too rigid and one dimensional. So we may have more of the ball but we struggle to really do anything other than work the ball into Kane with runners of him or have the WBs overlap when the AM comes inside.

Outside of that, there's not much else there.

A bit like under AVB. He's an attacking coach but his system was too rigid and needed Bale/Hulk to rifle one in to work or have a CF that was deadly from crosses.

Once it is either worked out by the opposition or they lose key players it falls apart and looks defensive because it's so dull to watch.

 

[rossdapep]

He's also had far fewer trainings sessions but played far better in just a few weeks with Brazil at the WC.

Yeah cause he knows his role and the players he plays with there. He isnt shifted all over the place

 

[Nerine]

Nah.

Fuck this guy.

Seems to me that he’s just trying to point score against the board at this point. All of it is political bollocks.

Totally petty and really reckless given the finances involved in all of this.

Like, Danjuma on loan. May as well have literally javelined 2.5m out of the window because Conte refuses to play him in order to prove some kind of principled point.

It stupid and actively hurts the club.

 

[bbunc]

Worst week of coaching the club has ever seen. Completely inexcusable management of rotation and subs. Managed to not play the best lineup one time and then has the temerity to keep whining about being here. Get out now.

 

[rossdapep]

Worst week of coaching the club has ever seen. Completely inexcusable management of rotation and subs. Managed to not play the best lineup one time and then has the temerity to keep whining about being here. Get out now.

It really has been that bad.

Even Nuno had a win before the United destruction

 

[anydange]

Richy is exactly the sort of character we need

He is desperate to play and desperate to win, that's why he gets involved in all the rubbish.

He probably shouldn't say that in public but right now maybe we need that attitude.

I think he has more the right to criticize the manager and him saying it has made me have so much more appreciation for him. He’s been patient as fuck since coming here.

The manager is allowed to shit all over players with no consequences so it should be fair for it to go both ways.

Conte is a fraud and Levy fell for it.

 

[rossdapep]

16 points from 11 games since the WC break - 29 from the 15 prior to that.

The opening 10 games massively skew that too.

Threw the FA Cup
Whimpered out of the CL.

 

[Albertbarich]

16 points from 11 games since the WC break - 29 from the 15 prior to that.

The opening 10 games massively skew that too.

Threw the FA Cup
Whimpered out of the CL.

These past few years it's felt like the club has tried to scrub any tiny bit of fun from football we could possibly find.

Mourinho was the worst. I hated him being here, the football was anti football, the division, the arguments. Just awful. Nuno was a clown and if course a massively defensive one and now Conte who has seemed to begrudge being here from the moment he arrived. We had a great two month spell but apart from that just more misery.

I've had enough. Not that I can do anything about it if the incompetency and lack of care from the top and all the way down is disgusting.

 

[dtxspurs]

 

[RuskyM]

Milan have been in the Champions League Quarter finals once in the last 15 years (same as Leicester City) and they are 5th in Serie A and would have been 6th would it not for Juventus getting a points deduction.

Okay fuck this dickhead. Can’t wait for us to have a manager who doesn’t despise us. If he’s in charge for another day it’s an embarrassment.

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

And just like Jose he’s won more trophies in the last 20 years alone than we will in the next 20. It’s easy to cherry pick numbers and stats. Not defending him cause he’s bang out of order just pointing it out.

His final sentence will be very interesting in 12 months time. We get in a new manager and if they manage to get us playing well consistently then Conte looks the mug. But if the manager doesn’t then we will know once and for all where the rot is stemming from.

Either way, he’s gone and hopefully sooner than later. I literally couldn’t give a fuck about the club or players at this point in time but I want to see the fans unified again. This is the second time we’ve been divided by a manager. It’s ruining this forum.

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

Okay fuck this dickhead. Can’t wait for us to have a manager who doesn’t despise us. If he’s in charge for another day it’s an embarrassment.

Yeah honestly if speaking like that doesn’t get him the sack then it just goes to show how useless Levy is. That’s a direct stab at the club.

 

[Pistols At Dawn]

Conte disrespects us. Arrivederci.

 

[HedgieSpur]

we need this in the stands - not on the concourse, for as much of the game as possible.

Let both Levy and Conte know exactly who is wanted at this club, and who isn’t.

Completely disagree. I found it very cringe tbh. Thankfully it was a minority of fans….. I was there last night and I get the frustration but thought it was embarrassing.

Oh and Poch is the manager who SOME fans want….

 

[midoshairband]

Are you actually serious? You saw his playing before the world cup right? Remember we were so bad that people came up with that ridiculous theory that we were saving ourselves for after the world cup

i'd forgotten about that pearler. like it was some sort of masterplan.

what a crock of shite.

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

If the players have any guts they’ll give him some back. It’s his turgid football that’s the problem far more than the players.

Well we said the same about Jose, so whilst I hope that you’re right I have zero faith in the players showing us any different under a new manager.

Until we get rid of some true deadwood, and it’s not that bad but it only takes one apple to rot the bunch, we will probably be here in a few months time anyway.

I genuinely hope whoever comes in next doesn’t have the wool pulled over their eyes, just be ruthless and fuck off any player who doesn’t have the heart. There’s a few of them.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

Well we said the same about Jose, so whilst I hope that you’re right I have zero faith in the players showing us any different under a new manager.

Until we get rid of some true deadwood, and it’s not that bad but it only takes one apple to rot the bunch, we will probably be here in a few months time anyway.

I genuinely hope whoever comes in next doesn’t have the wool pulled over their eyes, just be ruthless and fuck off any player who doesn’t have the heart. There’s a few of them.

the whole club is rotten from branches to the roots

 

[Liamyid28]

Get him out today!! From day 1 he’s thought he was bigger than the club. Some of the worst football I’ve been unlucky enough to watch and it’s pretty clear the players can’t stand this boring shite anymore either.