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Manager Antonio Conte

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Don't let Conte blind you. He's working magic with this side, but if we want to challenge, we'll still need further improvements. Conte is a title-winning calibre of manager, not a happy with top 4 one. We've struck gold with him, so now it's up to Levy and Uncle Joe to put their hands in their pockets...
 
Darnswim said:
Don't let Conte blind you. He's working magic with this side, but if we want to challenge, we'll still need further improvements. Conte is a title-winning calibre of manager, not a happy with top 4 one. We've struck gold with him, so now it's up to Levy and Uncle Joe to put their hands in their pockets...
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They will, Jose spent more money than any manager in our entire history!!!

We’ve spent big on players since moving into the new stadium.

We’ve revamped our operations by bringing in a powerful DoF who has huge power at the Club.

Conte has a great track record for improving players/teams + buy the right players for the positions he wants to strengthen.

We no longer have an arsehole managing the club with a poor track record of spunking money on stodgy midfield players.

There’s absolutely no reason to not look forward without optimism.
 
Guido said:
"Same players, different Manager"................................

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Definitely the same players as under Jol and Arry

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We still do need new players. We have a new manager bounce and the players are probably getting that twice over due to having to work with dour Nuno, but we will almost certainly have sticky periods.

Under this manager, with this squad, can we get top four? Possibly, depends imo if United continue to massively underachieve based on their talent. But we can’t build on that at all without new players brought in.

Conte is fucking gold dust though. The vibe in the stadium and around the whole club is totally different to how it was under Nuno. The man has breathed new life in to the whole club.
 
daveyboy88 said:
they had a 19 year old in midfield and a CB ive never seen before. you cant claim that was a strong liverpool side surely
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And it wasn't a strong Spurs side either - first/rare starts under Conte for Sessegnon, Dele, Winks and Ndombele for example whilst no Hojbjerg (52 successive Pl starts since his arrival), Skipp and Moura on the bench as they (like others) had not had enough training since covid etc so not fit enough to start.

Spurs probably more affected by covid than Liverpool.
 
Spursidol said:
And it wasn't a strong Spurs side either - first/rare starts under Conte for Sessegnon, Dele, Winks and Ndombele for example whilst no Hojbjerg (52 successive Pl starts since his arrival), Skipp and Moura on the bench as they (like others) had not had enough training since covid etc so not fit enough to start.

Spurs probably more affected by covid than Liverpool.
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i agree both sides was weak. but you cant claim thats a draw against a good liverpool side because it wasnt.

the point is some fans think that this squad is good enough just because we have a new manager. theyve showed us more than enough evidence over the last 4 years that a lot of these players are out of their depth.

dele, winks, dier...i dont care who the manager is these players are not good enough if we have ambitions of doing anything worthwhile.
 
Darnswim said:
Don't let Conte blind you. He's working magic with this side, but if we want to challenge, we'll still need further improvements. Conte is a title-winning calibre of manager, not a happy with top 4 one. We've struck gold with him, so now it's up to Levy and Uncle Joe to put their hands in their pockets...
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Guess we will be looking for a new manager soon then.
 
daveyboy88 said:
i agree both sides was weak. but you cant claim thats a draw against a good liverpool side because it wasnt.

the point is some fans think that this squad is good enough just because we have a new manager. theyve showed us more than enough evidence over the last 4 years that a lot of these players are out of their depth.

dele, winks, dier...i dont care who the manager is these players are not good enough if we have ambitions of doing anything worthwhile.
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From the last 6 - 12 months before Poch left it was becoming apparent that many players were unmotivated - and some like Dele for maybe a year before that, seemingly distracted by women or commercial interests. And that player attitude didn't seem to change under much of Mourhino or Nuno'd reigns. Nut Conte seems to have got more out of thatsame group of players.

My take on the players is we have too many 'average' players - we haven't got as many better players such as Dembele, Walker, Rose, Eriksen or the Dele we had for 2-3 years, and the Kane we have now is not as agile as the one we had 4 or 5 years ago. And the term 'average' include goof players who don't seem to want to put the effort in such as Ndombele and Lo Celso

We need to get in a few good players to replace a few 'average' players and we'd improve a lot
 
Guido said:
"Same players, different Manager"................................

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I think Conte will end the debate about the most important person at the club, ITS THE FUCKING MANAGER!!!!

Out squad has issues but it wasn’t remotely as bad as Jose and Nuno made it out to be. The squad under AVB could have been better but Poch showed it was far better than AVB had been making it.

We have now had two lessons from two managers that it’s hard to judge a squad till a proper decent manager has been at the helm. I hope this time fans will remember it and most of all I hope Levy will remember that a good quality suitable manager is the biggest thing he can do to fix things, without the manager there are no foundations to build on.
 
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