Antonio Conte, cometh the hour cometh the man

Pay him whatever he wants and back him with however much money he needs, absolute hero!

Give Conte  what ever he wants pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

Chelsea’s Antonio Conte: ‘This is for my players, the title is a dream come true’

Dominic Fifield at The Hawthorns

@domfifield

Saturday 13 May 2017 00.10 BSTLast modified on Saturday 13 May 2017 00.35 BST

Antonio Conte described Chelsea’s title success as “a dream come true” and dedicated it to his players after a narrow victory over West Bromwich Albionsecured the second Premier League in three seasons, with the Italian immediately targeting victory in the FA Cup final later this month to complete the double.

Michy Batshuayi, flung on 15 minutes from time with the game goalless, scored the goal which claimed the trophy with Conte at the heart of the visitors’ joyous celebrations out on the pitch, in front of their 2,773 travelling supporters, after the final whistle. He was duly soaked in a vat of iced water wielded by Asmir Begovic and Carlo Cudicini upon his return to the dressing-room before being sprayed with champagne by Diego Costa. He ended the night with a fat lip, inflicted during the celebrations.

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The Italian’s success this season means he has claimed the domestic title in each of his last four campaigns in club football, and has won 111 of his 150 league games with Juventus and Chelsea. “They waited for me after the celebrations with the fans, and put Champagne and beer on me,” said Conte. “I had to change my clothes because my suit is a disaster now. I’m wearing the tracksuit, but I think I’m living a moment very important. When you put a lot of enthusiasm and passion and hours into your work, a lot of time not sleeping for your work, it’s right to celebrate and enjoy a moment like this. Enjoy it with the fans, the staff, with the club. It’s great. This is a dream come true. For sure, it’s a dream.

“This is for my players. It is a great achievement because this is the hardest championship to win in the world, and I have to say thanks to the players for their commitment, their attitude and their passion, and their will to do something great this season. They fought for this, so this win is for the players. Every game I feel like I have played with them. I show my passion and my will, my desire to stay with my players in every moment of the game. This is me, this is how I am. In the present, in the past, I stay with my players in positive and negative situations. So we won this title together.

“It has not always been the easiest of years, with my family back in Italy, but it has been a great season. For me, and also for my players given last season was a bad season for the club, the players and the fans. Only one year later, to celebrate this win in a league where there are, for me, big, big teams with great players, great managers … it’s great, fantastic. So it’s important to celebrate now. We have also another target to try to reach – we worked very hard to reach the final of the FA Cup, and then it’s important to prepare in the right way for next season And now we can win the FA Cup.”

The head coach suggested his decision to switch to a back three after a heavy loss at the Emirates stadium in September “changed our season”. “He’s a fantastic manager,” said Eden Hazard. “He worked us a lot in training, and that was the key this season. So credit to him. When we lost to Liverpool and Arsenal and then went on an unbelievable run, winning [13] games in a row … that’s when we realised we could win the title.”

Batshuayi, a £33.2m signing from Marseille who has failed to start a league game since moving to England, was an unlikely hero at the last given his cameos have been restricted to 127 minutes of top-flight football to date this term. Yet the forward converted César Azpilicueta’s cross seven minutes from time, his third shot ever in the Premier League, to secure the trophy. “That’s the beauty of football,” said Cesc Fàbregas. “A player who didn’t play a lot scores the winning goal for the championship.” The Belgium forward described it as “the best moment of my footballing life”.

“You have to cherish these moments,” said the captain, Gary Cahill, who will lift the trophy with John Terry after the visit of Sunderland on the season’s final day. “You work hard all season to be where we are. There is no better feeling than this. People wrote us off as a team and individually but, consistently, we have been the best in the league. We are champions. It’s an amazing achievement from everybody. A special moment. Now I can’t wait to get my hands on the trophy.” Terry, who has not started a league game since mid-September but has now claimed the 15th major trophy of his glittering career with the club, admitted it had “been a delight to sit and watch”.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/12/chelsea-antonio-conte-dream-premier-league-title

 

My salutations to Antonio Conte for all the hard work, determination and tactical nous that he has demonstrated repeatedly over the entire season so far.  I had my doubts regarding his appointment and coupled with the squad's limitations on its size and technical ability, even making top 4 seemed like a challenge.  He's passed every test with flying colours and deserves all the plaudits headed his way.  The next test for him will be the Champions League and that will largely be determined by whom the club buys this summer. Meanwhile, celebrate his fantastic achievement and here's to more!

Antonio loves a celebration nearly as much as we all love him.

Thank you, Antonio Conte!

This title is as much yours as it is the players! A great team effort.

not sure how this got by me, but I guess Don Antonio will be staying @ Chelsea

 

An incredible achievement by an incredible manager.

While it is not quite up to par with Ranieri's heroics, taking a side from 10th to 1st is still a wonderful achievement especially when almost nobody thought that we would win the title. 

This would IMO be Conte's finest achievement, better even than taking Juventus from 7th to 1st. 

 

 

Great victory after an amazing championship! Amazing the way we playied this season.. about it, i've found a good video that explaines it. If you are interested, here it is!  

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39885837

Great article on Conte and his attention to detail.

Edited May 13, 20179 yr by charierre

 

safe to say there wont be a second date between antonio and pulis

Screw all the media who are drooling over us now they did everything to derail our season so screw them. They all wanted Tottenham to win

Give the man a new contract and a blank check book to sign whoever he wants next season. Even on a beautiful day like this, we have to read so called confirmed rumour he's going back to Italy next season. I don't think he will, but for f* sake we need to kill any thoughts of his potential departure in the near future. He has done the impossible, the FA cup would be a huge icing on the cake. We have seen how league winner perform in the following season in the past few years, I hope and trust Roman will back him all the way in the transfer market to ensure Conte has a dynasty at Chelsea.

 

 

Antonio Antonio ... 

Still has two years left on his current contract, but I think it's time to give him an extension and massive pay rise now.

Edited May 13, 20179 yr by Jezz

Really has prover himself this season, I honestly believe we now have the best coach in the world. He's going to take the world by storm in the next decade like Jose has when he first joined us!

How spoilt are we, I love the man! Can't wait to see us compete for more trophies! Arsenal you're next!

This maybe controversial...but does anyone think that seeing the celebrations last night that the team spirit is better under this title win than 14/15 team?

They were really celebrating and seemed very light hearted with Conte - throwing him up in the air etc. Jose looked glum and tired when he won it. I noticed it particularly last night when we scored, Courtious came running over to celebrate with Conte. Can't imagine him doing that with jose. 

On 5/9/2017 at 17:56, yorkleyblue said:

I think I was actually born a miserable old sod, but I'm getting worse :)

Aww you have always been anything but cranky whenever I've met you!  Certainly at the end of the semi final at Wembley you seemed pretty happy!

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

This maybe controversial...but does anyone think that seeing the celebrations last night that the team spirit is better under this title win than 14/15 team?

They were really celebrating and seemed very light hearted with Conte - throwing him up in the air etc. Jose looked glum and tired when he won it. I noticed it particularly last night when we scored, Courtious came running over to celebrate with Conte. Can't imagine him doing that with jose. 

Robbie Earle said the same on some American post-match analysis I saw today (I have been happily meandering through loads of videos today!).  And it's true what you say, though Jose did look quite animated when we won the league cup, but yeah the prem, much less so.

36 minutes ago, Beerqueen said:

Robbie Earle said the same on some American post-match analysis I saw today (I have been happily meandering through loads of videos today!).  And it's true what you say, though Jose did look quite animated when we won the league cup, but yeah the prem, much less so.

It begs the question, we all natural assumed Jose lost the dressing room sometime in pre season 2015, but could it have actually happened at some point between the league cup win and security the title?

Edited May 13, 20179 yr by Argo