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When was it going right?
Think we peaked on the opening day...
Even that involved going 1 down to fucking Southampton.
It went wrong years ago by way of poor recruiting and development.
The 5-2-0 start was just smoke and mirrors, similar to the 3-0-0 nuno start. No advanced statistic reflected the 17 out of 21 points were deserved. Chelsea, wolves, west ham and Fulham were all fortunate results. And per usual, the results soon started to reflect the performances.
We were never good this season.
The 5-2-0 start was just smoke and mirrors, similar to the 3-0-0 nuno start. No advanced statistic reflected the 17 out of 21 points were deserved. Chelsea, wolves, west ham and Fulham were all fortunate results. And per usual, the results soon started to reflect the performances.
We were never good this season.
As has been mentioned, I think it’s pretty obvious what’s gone wrong.
Primary reasons:
1) Poor summer recruitment. Starting 11 has not improved from last year which we should always be striving to do.
2) Son out of form. Arguably our most important player last year and he’s fallen off a ledge which has affected our goal output, especially in key games as our goal tally isn’t terrible.
3) Defensive shambles. Don’t need to say more, taken a massive step back here.
4) Conte - Complete failure to adjust or react to any of our deficiencies. Kept playing Son, kept playing 5 at the back and 2 in the middle, same tactics…..just wasn’t and isn’t working.
Secondary reasons
No output from Richy, Kulu has gone missing in a lot of games, Bentacur injury, injuries in general (but every team has injuries)…ah there’s loads.
Primary reasons:
1) Poor summer recruitment. Starting 11 has not improved from last year which we should always be striving to do.
2) Son out of form. Arguably our most important player last year and he’s fallen off a ledge which has affected our goal output, especially in key games as our goal tally isn’t terrible.
3) Defensive shambles. Don’t need to say more, taken a massive step back here.
4) Conte - Complete failure to adjust or react to any of our deficiencies. Kept playing Son, kept playing 5 at the back and 2 in the middle, same tactics…..just wasn’t and isn’t working.
Secondary reasons
No output from Richy, Kulu has gone missing in a lot of games, Bentacur injury, injuries in general (but every team has injuries)…ah there’s loads.
- Signing players on loan like Clement Lenglet instead of players like Bastoni.
- Allowing Eric Dier to start for a team with ambitions of winning the league instead of signing someone like Skriniar.
- Not inventing a time machine and slapping the face of the dickhead who had the bright idea of getting rid of Alderweireld and Vertonghen, the best CB pairing we've had in recent memory.
- Employing a manager who promotes negative counter attacking wankball after sacking a manager who plays negative counter attacking wankball then claiming we were going to sign a manager who didn't promote negative counter attacking wankball.
- Players being massive bottlejobs/pussies/wage thiefs.
- Having a corrupt DOF who is shit at his job.
- Having a Chairman who would struggle to oversee a 10 year old's 5-a-side party running our club.
- Having a large section of entitled, scumbag matchday fans who find it acceptable to relentlessly boo a player (who yes, is shit) who was playing his first game in months, out of position when the person responsible for us being shit is several times his pay grade.
Everything with us is just toxic as fuck.
- Allowing Eric Dier to start for a team with ambitions of winning the league instead of signing someone like Skriniar.
- Not inventing a time machine and slapping the face of the dickhead who had the bright idea of getting rid of Alderweireld and Vertonghen, the best CB pairing we've had in recent memory.
- Employing a manager who promotes negative counter attacking wankball after sacking a manager who plays negative counter attacking wankball then claiming we were going to sign a manager who didn't promote negative counter attacking wankball.
- Players being massive bottlejobs/pussies/wage thiefs.
- Having a corrupt DOF who is shit at his job.
- Having a Chairman who would struggle to oversee a 10 year old's 5-a-side party running our club.
- Having a large section of entitled, scumbag matchday fans who find it acceptable to relentlessly boo a player (who yes, is shit) who was playing his first game in months, out of position when the person responsible for us being shit is several times his pay grade.
Everything with us is just toxic as fuck.
Add to that a tactically stubborn manager that thought he was doing us a favour, and a crooked director of football , and you've got the lot.
Negativity aside, once that Karting money kicks in, you'll see some serious title challenges
You are making excuses for Conte's sh!t.
We can't spend big and what we do spend has too many mistakes within it.
Conte did shit.
Club has some blame attached.
They appointed him for a start, knowing he needs pretty much the highest budget in the league he is in to win. If you know you won't spend what he needs, why bring him in?
Okay but you expect more.
Look around and not every team has top quality centre backs or players.
If you did not know Conte had won trophies elsewhere you would have been well withim your rights to have called him a novice.
But he isn't a novice. He's won everywhere else he's been. ENIC Hotspurs are novices.
Other teams didn't bring in Antonio Conte, the coach most well known in the world for playing 3 CBs, then not sign a single permanent, CB.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia profile: Rise of Napoli winger compared to Diego Maradona and George Best explained
Compared to George Best and Diego Maradona, Napoli winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s rapid rise has captured the imagination. Find out what makes him special in this exclusive interview with his former coach and why he could be one of the players of his generation
It is a point that is made by Leonid Slutsky, the former Rubin boss who has managed him for more matches than anyone else.
"What he is doing is not a surprise to me," Slutsky tells Sky Sports.
"Nobody knew about him before he came to Italy and that is understandable because the Russian league is not a popular league around Europe. But everybody in Russia knew. His quality, his position in world football now, that is not a surprise to any of us.
Napoli did their homework. A certain Premier League club did too. "A year ago, there was very serious interest from Tottenham. It was almost a done deal."
"I congratulate Napoli because they won the lottery. For next to nothing they have a £100m player."
So near, but not quite there. Fine margins on getting top class players or not. Maybe player just fancied the more leisurely Serie A ?