AnHonestOpinion

I've been littering around this forum now for a while. I haven't really felt the need to pop up with a post or create an account because my opinion has been mostly covered by other faces here. I've supported this club since a wee boy, granted not as many years as some of the older heads here, but enough years to remember being sat at Stamford Bridge for a freezing midweek Champions League tie pre Abramovich. Anyway to the point... Conte has to go. Today has made me genuinely contemplate my support for this club. For YEARS we have been a negative, boring, unexciting team riddled with wasted talent. Bar a spell under Ancelotti, not a single season has been played with an attacking, positive footballing mentality. It's shocking. This squad is worth in today's market probably half a billion, maybe more. Last season was an anomaly. If it wasn't for Costa we would not have won the league. His input at absolute vital times was invaluable. Coupled with Hazard and Kante being formidable. If I'm completely honest a change in formation after the Arsenal game did allow for a brief change in mentality but even then, some results we had were VERY fortunate. We got lucky. Winning games we did not deserve to. A reliance on counter attacking football. No real philosophy. We have had an abundance of money to spend, which brings me on to a sort of sub point that has really been frustrating as of late... People upon here complaining that we don't have the monetary necessity to compete anymore. Uh, hello People, have you actually seen how much money we have spent over the past few seasons? We have spent a fortune and are no less an example of splashing cash than City. You can't use it as an excuse. It's idiocy even thinking otherwise. The problem lies with the attraction of the club, which ultimately lies with the philosophy of the manager and the manager himself. Conte does not have a good reputation amongst the talent pool we need to be fishing in. This ultimately boils down to the boring, defensive style of football he plays and the fact that he is an egoist of perpetual levels who has a reputation for causing issue in the dressing room and at club level. We have to move on. We need an identity. We need to get with the times. We no longer have Lampard, Terry, Drogba, Cech... Football has changed. For the sake of our future generations of fans let's give them football to be proud of. Let's give faith to a manager that truly understands the quality that we have. Through success we have earned the right to demand only the best from this club, and Conte isn't fit to lace it's boots. Wake up Chelsea FC, it's time to move away from pragmatic managers and take a leap of faith. With the departure of Hazard and Courtois in the summer significant funds will be available for someone to truly build a fantastic team; but the manager is essential to it fulfilling it's potential. For this reason, we need to bring in an optimist who can make us fans start believing again.