Luis Enrique emerges as candidate if Chelsea are forced to lose Antonio Conte

Edited June 17, 20179 yr by mojo

Remember when Conte was getting sacked last October, he turned up at the press conference and laughed, it's all a load of crap, has to be. 

Edited June 17, 20179 yr by Floyd25

10 hours ago, Zeta said:

If 9 months from now we are going through the whole sacking/bringing in a temporary interim situation yet again, I honestly think some of us will start to lose a bit of interest.

True, I don't think I could stand too much more of that nonsense. 

My sources in the club tell me there are no issues and that Chelsea are willing to back the manager to the point of spending £200m+ on new recruits that were recommended by Conte directly 

Edited June 17, 20179 yr by PedroMendez

Didnt this originate from duncon castles? says everything you need to know as far as im concerned, as you were!

Now papers saying he's getting ready to sign a new deal, embarrassing from the press.

I think Castles was the first English journo to publish it. Seemed to come out of Italy first.The concerning bit is that reputable journos seemed to have confirmed a bit of an issue afterwards even if not to the extent of Conte quitting.

I'd understand if the club were mad about the Costa text. It was a dumb thing to do. I'd also understand if Conte was concerned by the speed of signings. Others are moving and we will repeat 2015-16/2010-11 issues if we don't follow. 

We've known for a long time that Chelsea has its fair share of court intrigue and that isn't going to change. I just hope it doesn't bring us undone again as it has before.

Not sure if the Nike-deal is the reason of all the headlines? They say we don't want to reveal new signings in Adidas-kit but wait until 1st of July when Nike takes over.

This has probably the reason of all the rumours Conte is going...

This seems plausible

1 hour ago, evissy said:

They say we don't want to reveal new signings in Adidas-kit but wait until 1st of July when Nike takes over.

I'm sure it's more like we CAN'T reveal the new signings in Adidas kit. I wouldn't be surprised if Nike insisted that we do it that way. Besides, Conte is on holiday, so it's no wonder he's not being very active on the football front.

Antonio Conte is claiming he has been told by #Chelsea that he has to sell before he can buy players this summer. [Express]

 

If true, this is terrible. Can see Conte walking away next year if our complicated and power hungry board keep interfering  

9 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Antonio Conte is claiming he has been told by #Chelsea that he has to sell before he can buy players this summer. [Express]

 

If true, this is terrible. Can see Conte walking away next year if our complicated and power hungry board keep interfering  

Even if it were true, it shouldn't be a problem because we've already sold several players since January.

13 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Antonio Conte is claiming he has been told by #Chelsea that he has to sell before he can buy players this summer. [Express]

 

If true, this is terrible. Can see Conte walking away next year if our complicated and power hungry board keep interfering  

It simply couldn't be true given we made a near £80 million in sales last season and double that in income and sponsorship this season.

 

I understand that this complies with FFP and such but surely we have freed up a ton of wages as well as the transfer fees of Oscar, Cuadrado etc plus the prize money would put us at least close to 150-200m-ish, doesn't it?

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Antonio Conte is claiming he has been told by #Chelsea that he has to sell before he can buy players this summer. [Express]

 

If true, this is terrible. Can see Conte walking away next year if our complicated and power hungry board keep interfering  

That seems highly unlikely as historically in summer windows we have secured purchases before selling players.

Only for Oscar and Bertrand we get 70mln. pounds. We did get 25mln. for Cuadrado. We get good money for Salah as well. 7.5mln. for Christian Atzu. 10mln. for Begovic. Almost done deal for Traore - 20mln.

Thats more then 130mln. pounds only from seeling and we are not over yet.

If thats true, then we are in big trouble and Conte days are numbered.

 

3 hours ago, JM7 said:

Antonio Conte is claiming he has been told by #Chelsea that he has to sell before he can buy players this summer. [Express]

 

If true, this is terrible. Can see Conte walking away next year if our complicated and power hungry board keep interfering  

 

3 hours ago, Chelsbear said:

It simply couldn't be true given we made a near £80 million in sales last season and double that in income and sponsorship this season.

 

Yeah, i think it's bullsh*t. Just the media having nothing to report so they are making up reason's for why we haven't signed anyone yet.

 

July 1st or a few days after will be when we start seeing confirmed signings. I think some of the deals are already done to be honest.

Reports are saying Conte is refusing to sign a new deal until players are signed. 

Bit of dangerous game that Conte is playing if it's true. He is demanding with his squad so makes sense that he demanding with the bird as well. It could in disaster though!

11 hours ago, JM7 said:

Antonio Conte is claiming he has been told by #Chelsea that he has to sell before he can buy players this summer. [Express]

 

If true, this is terrible. Can see Conte walking away next year if our complicated and power hungry board keep interfering  

Continuation of the one in, one out policy?  

Not surprised if it's true.  Isn't that what the club has been practising all along?

43 minutes ago, lchk said:

Continuation of the one in, one out policy?  

We're not adhering to one in one out. 

At present the outgoing players outweighs the incoming. 

In the last six months we've sold/released:

Terry, Begovic, Ivanovic, Mikel and Oscar. 

No one has been signed to replace any of them, the squad was topped up be recalling Ake and Kenedy from loan. 

The press need to make their mind up. One minute they saying conte is disappointed by lack of signings, but in the next breath papers are reporting we're putting in bids and pursuing sandro, bakayoko and lukaku. 

If it was anything to do with the Nike situation we would have ended the Adidas partnership 2 years and 1 month early (or how ever early we pulled the pin).  It's got absolutely nothing to do with it. 

12 minutes ago, Van Butsen said:

If it was anything to do with the Nike situation we would have ended the Adidas partnership 2 years and 1 month early (or how ever early we pulled the pin).  It's got absolutely nothing to do with it. 

No. This level of rebranding means they have a sh*t load of work to change. Megastore, signage, website, nearly everything has to change. They aren't going to give themselves 1 day to do the changeover. It makes way more sense to think it has to do with the very important sponsor than nothing at all.

22 minutes ago, Van Butsen said:

If it was anything to do with the Nike situation we would have ended the Adidas partnership 2 years and 1 month early (or how ever early we pulled the pin).  It's got absolutely nothing to do with it. 

Theres every possibility there was a staged cessation clause in the contract, the 2 years early date would then be a set date. I doubt we could just end the contract with Adidas at any time.

54 minutes ago, enigma said:

The press need to make their mind up. One minute they saying conte is disappointed by lack of signings, but in the next breath papers are reporting we're putting in bids and pursuing sandro, bakayoko and lukaku. 

Sport journos are such fake news outlets that any article needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Almost evryday their news changes to suit any given narrative.