In my opinion Conte just needs to work with the team. It is the first time that he has taken on a team once the season has begun. Yesterday for the first time I felt he was partially satisfied with his performance and above all with how the team is learning his style. If he stays (as I think and hope) for the next season we will see an important qualitative leap: additions of other players and work on his mentality. It is his trademark
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Manager Antonio Conte
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In my opinion Conte just needs to work with the team. It is the first time that he has taken on a team once the season has begun. Yesterday for the first time I felt he was partially satisfied with his performance and above all with how the team is learning his style. If he stays (as I think and hope) for the next season we will see an important qualitative leap: additions of other players and work on his mentality. It is his trademark
I love Conte. I despise ENIC. So anyone who is prepared to stick their fingers up and make life uncomfortable for them in an attempt to try to improve our team is a winner in my books.
I just find it strange that he seems to bring up how hard the job in every other interview (or seemingly so). Whether that's just the media recycling stories or if they're jumping onto his words and moulding them to fit their narrative, I don't know.
I guess that by repeating that criticism he's not giving Levy breathing room. It's a constant reminder that poor performances are due to having a poor squad, thanks to criminal underinvestment on the pitch. Hopefully this'll bring change in the summer.
See your point.
I think it could also be an element of simply someone telling the truth for once.
Moooooooose!
He's had similar problems at most of his clubs though. He won the league at Chelsea with no Europe. When they had CL they faltered badly.
He won the league with Inter having hone out of the CL at the group stage - finished bottom of the group with 1 win. Only lost 3 league games all season but 2 were a few days after their previous league game.
This is probably my only concern with Conte - why does this pattern emerge wherever he goes, that shows his teams struggle with games in quick successions.
Now that we are down to one game a week, I hope that he can start working on a pressing system. Since that is something that we seem to lack still.
It doesn't have to be Poch's super aggressive press or the gegenpress of Klopp. But we need some form of pressing system to really compete consistently. Specific triggers to start it off of (heavy first touch from the opponent), specific zones where we press more than others, channels that we try to press the ball out to and so on.
With Conte's football being built at its core on rapid transition offence, I think that it would make sense to have a system where you try to force the ball out wide and to force the opponent to play it long, cut off all short passing channels, that way you can force them to play it long and win the ball back from that and start the attack. Niko Kovac and Marcelino have good pressing systems that work like that for comparisons sake.
It doesn't have to be Poch's super aggressive press or the gegenpress of Klopp. But we need some form of pressing system to really compete consistently. Specific triggers to start it off of (heavy first touch from the opponent), specific zones where we press more than others, channels that we try to press the ball out to and so on.
With Conte's football being built at its core on rapid transition offence, I think that it would make sense to have a system where you try to force the ball out wide and to force the opponent to play it long, cut off all short passing channels, that way you can force them to play it long and win the ball back from that and start the attack. Niko Kovac and Marcelino have good pressing systems that work like that for comparisons sake.
Instead of whinging about things, he should realise that getting us to win a trophy will arguably be his greatest accomplishment yet as a manager. Doesn't matter if it takes a few years. Klopp didn't turn Liverpool into world-beaters overnight, and he also wasn't handed insane amounts of money without first selling.
It is true, however, that he has always taken teams to rebuild or in any case to give his mark: Juventus, Chelsea, Inter took them at a time when they weren't even fighting for the championship. Guardiola took Bayern Munich in the Triplete. He has spent mountains of money but does not win the CL from Messi-Xavi-Iniesta's Barcelona: perhaps he will win this year but 10 years have passed and despite having had battleships no one tells him that he is not a winner in CL. The Juventus that Conte took came from a seventh place, with few grafts and some purges created a war machine but did not have the players he wanted for the next step. There are some coaches who are excused for everything, infinite credit. Others like him who travel on the grill, even of the press.
Yeah it's so weird - there's one or two characters on here who just can't help themselves, trying to find the slighest offence in anything Conte says.
Bizarre behaviour.
He says things how they are - that's it. It is not whinging, it is being honest. Some posters here need to wind their fucking necks in and stop shitting their pants every time he speaks.
Our fanbase weirdly won’t allow us to sell first though. The outcry of the potential sale and reinvestment of Son shows that. Levy knows that
The ones you refer to are not fans. They're pathetic, and I'm bored of it.
If we force teams to go long then invariably, those teams will have bodies behind the ball when the long ball is played. We'll win it back than try to pass through them and probably struggle to carve out chances.
If we entice opposition teams into our half then they push up and we have space to attack. I'm starting to see it at the moment, the stupid looking dicey football around our own box - it's a ploy to try and get the opposition to push up and press us.
It's a massive gamble, but it's really worked very, very well against a lot of teams that traditionally we struggle to break down with possession.
The outcry would be because selling your best players in order to improve is madness.
Gaslighting this, pure and simple.
We will have 2 games a week a couple of times, after Utd we play Brighton away on Wednesday and we still need the Woolwich game to be re-scheduled (which for some reason hasn't been)
No Winks no problem.
That Woolwich game is going to be huge. They’ve picked up form recently and are definitely our biggest threat of top four.
Can’t wait for it.