And at the same time make us even more of a laughing stock. Surely conte knows our history in the cup to not treat it as a ego trip and make sure we lose. I just wish he could actually coach us to play better football other than counter attack. Lots of people might give me stick but his supporters are the same as Jose’s who said he was a winner and we need to support him. Why? Lots of clubs have far less than us but can still play better football. Surely with his pedigree he can’t train, coach motivate an 11 to beat morecombe at home easily. If he can’t then is he really a top coach. I’m fed up with all the apologist making out we are shit. We are not that bad and I’m sure we could play better football than we currently do.
You a Jose fan? Football under him got far worse. No shots on target many a game. Under Conte we actually try most of the time, just fall short quality wise. Lots of effort and intent, but we need players. He joined mid season, didn't get a transfer window like Jose did, and in the space of months we've risen up the table and could be one win from top 4. The improvement from Nuno to him has been palpable, but he isn't a magician, he doesn't magic up world class players who fit his vision. Even Klopp struggled and had embarrassing results with Liverpool before he got what he needed.
Not his fault we struggle to play his system because we have one actual CF at the club, shit wing backs, and not a midfielder worth a damn apart from Skipp. Any formation we play we're gonna have issues, if it's 433 we don't have the wingers or midfielders, 4-2-3-1 we don't have a competent 10, 4-4-2? Outdated and again, we don't have the wide players. We play on the counter attack because none of our midfielders can be bothered to create, so we have to rely on turnovers, it's obvious! Watch GLC and Ndombele today, those are the creators. They don't want to play for this club, not even if we hired Pep tomorrow.
'Is he really a top coach' has an obvious answer and it's yes. He won the league comfortably last season, he re-built Juventus, he won the league with Chelsea. If you're already asking this question after months where we've objectively improved then damn, you have zero fucking patience. With Jose the signs of his decline were there before he joined us, and are even more obvious now he's left. I guarantee if we lose Conte he goes straight to another club and wins trophies, because his methods work, they fit the modern game and will function anywhere where he has a semblance of backing.