Then add in the aggregators who only want to spread bad news as it gets more clicks and you have negativity across the online fanbase, who the media focus on. I’m glad actually that this week they have noted the away fans as a barometer of the ill feeling towards the owners and the love towards Conte. It’s a much more balanced approach.
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Manager Antonio Conte
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Then add in the aggregators who only want to spread bad news as it gets more clicks and you have negativity across the online fanbase, who the media focus on. I’m glad actually that this week they have noted the away fans as a barometer of the ill feeling towards the owners and the love towards Conte. It’s a much more balanced approach.
The quotes are what he said to sky and the paragraph I have highlighted, which all the internet has run with for drama, was something Di Marzio never said to sky sport news. It’s utter bullshit.
The final paragraph is what he actually said when asked about conte’s future. He hasn’t asked to leave. They aren’t discussing a contract now. But that doesn’t mean they won’t before the end of the season. The rest is just supposition.
This sheds a lot of light on this situation, and I can understand where Conte is coming from. I do think he will give it his best go for the rest of the season. I only hope that the players will play as hard as they can if they think he won't be coming back.
They should because:
1: That's what they get paid to do
2: They'll all bemoan a lack of CL football when it's their application that gets them it
3: Any new manager will surely have eyes
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Feelings can change, the pain of bereavement and the reflection it brings will pass with time.
I've no doubt he's questioning his future right now, he's in his fifties and isn't gonna live forever, he's loaded and after everything it's natural for him to reassess what's important in life.
However if as a team we're in good shape come season end, his relationship with the board is good, he feels he's being backed and can see success around the corner, he'll find it hard to walk away I think. Also remember if he goes, so do his staff and I think he's the type to take that responsibility seriously.
There's no obvious big clubs who want him, Juve are fucked who were the obvious ones. Big Spanish and German clubs won't have him, nor will our English rivals so his options are limited. AC Milan? Is that even possible after Inter?
I've no doubt he's questioning his future right now, he's in his fifties and isn't gonna live forever, he's loaded and after everything it's natural for him to reassess what's important in life.
However if as a team we're in good shape come season end, his relationship with the board is good, he feels he's being backed and can see success around the corner, he'll find it hard to walk away I think. Also remember if he goes, so do his staff and I think he's the type to take that responsibility seriously.
There's no obvious big clubs who want him, Juve are fucked who were the obvious ones. Big Spanish and German clubs won't have him, nor will our English rivals so his options are limited. AC Milan? Is that even possible after Inter?
As has been said.....time can be a healer. I think Conte is potentially seeing how he feels after a few more months, hence his request to put negotiations on hold.
If I were him I would go back to Italy and live out my life in a more relaxed way.
Conte might need the cut and thrust of football management to help him get over his losses, not ponder too much.
Effectively retiring especially if you feel unfulfilled career wise is a big decision.
If I were him I would go back to Italy and live out my life in a more relaxed way.
Conte might need the cut and thrust of football management to help him get over his losses, not ponder too much.
Effectively retiring especially if you feel unfulfilled career wise is a big decision.
I'm fine with him staying until the end of the season and then going in the summer hopefully with an FA Cup and a top 4 place. I just dont think he is the guy for the major surgery we need and i just dont like the football.
If he stayed, you might get another year, it would be more short term thinking. I certainly wouldnt see him being happy about letting Lloris, Dier, Perisic snd Son go because thats the sort of experience and charachter he wants. We'd have to loan or sell Spence, Gil, maybe Sarr and i doubt he'd start Udogie much.
Carragher nailed it on Monday, when he said the likes of us, Woolwich and Liverpool have to build over 2 or 3 seasons to compete properly and Conte isnt that guy. We need to find someone that is.
If he stayed, you might get another year, it would be more short term thinking. I certainly wouldnt see him being happy about letting Lloris, Dier, Perisic snd Son go because thats the sort of experience and charachter he wants. We'd have to loan or sell Spence, Gil, maybe Sarr and i doubt he'd start Udogie much.
Carragher nailed it on Monday, when he said the likes of us, Woolwich and Liverpool have to build over 2 or 3 seasons to compete properly and Conte isnt that guy. We need to find someone that is.
I would bite my hand off to get top 4 this season, Kane to stay, and a new manager to come in this summer.
Seems unlikely though
I agree with this 100% regardless of the basic and infinitely less important brew that is football.
Not that combo, no.
More likely; if we get top 4 then Conte AND Kane stay..... Maybe top 4, no Kane & new manager.
theres no obvious managers right now it seems. would be interesting to know who would be the number 1 target from the club
Cheap , won’t ask for much to be spent and will get some fans onside
ochhail:yea a meek little yes man. great. might as well get little winks back and give donkey dier the armbandCheap , won’t ask for much to be spent and will get some fans onside
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no thank you
Couldn’t stand another 3 years of playing like underdogs though
For £15m a year and bonuses, I suspect he is getting by.
He certainly has the best set of attacker's that I can remember
On paper.....Maybe.........
Poch had Kane, Dele, Son, Eriksen, Lamela, Llorente (the first 4 of which all clocking 10-30 goals per season).
For some reason I'm thinking in a 4231
We could have
Richarlison/Danjuma
Son/Perisic Kane Kulusevski/Gil
Kane as the 10