Did you understand this is the same man, that won us the title? The same man that took 10th in the PL and won the title next season ?

And no this team is not good enough.

Drinkwater, Mouses, Zapacosta, Barkley, Bakayoko, so far so bad, Pedro, Cesc, Cahill and Willy are washed. And, Kante, Luiz, Azpi, a lot behind the level of last season. Rudiger and Christensen so far have been nothing special.

The truth is Conte put the bar high with the title last year. He make a lot of players to play very much above the level, but they don`t have the class to keep constantly that level. That`s the true.

And the football not work like that, you should beat this, this and this with this squad.

Otherwise top team would have 5-6 tough matches and the rest would be wins against teams you mention.

Last season City lost to Everton with 4-0 and Leicester with 4-1 .... Pretty sure they should they have better player then this team, right? But the football not work that way.

And it`s completely board fault. Because all of this is reflecting on the players. And most importantly you kill the motivation and passion in the manager. Just what happen with Conte.

So whatever it come will be the same, untill big changes happen in the board and the management of this team.

 

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Even though the board failed to get his targets, this squad should still be good enough to beat the likes of bournemouth, burnley, watford, norwich etc. At some point we have to stop looking at the board and look at the man picking the team and tactics, and also the players on the pitch.

I agree we do have enough in our squad to beat the teams you mentioned. I also agree that the board probably did not get his targets. I also agree the board should not be the scapegoat. 

When the board offered Conte an extension and wage increase on his contract in the summer, Conte, apparently, did not want to extend his contract, but accepted the wage increase.

What message does this send ?. Why would the board want to back him fully if Conte himself is not willing to commit to a longer term at Chelsea ?.

I would like Conte to stay, but I think he has shown he does not want to, otherwise he would have extended his contract. His demeanor as of late speaks volumes for me. 

would love him to stay but can't see him still being at the club after the barce/manchester games.. I do believe he has enough to turn it around but doesn't look like he wants to anymore. 

not admitting defeat in those games, honestly believe on our day we could beat barca at home, but on the basis of last night looks unlikely. we need to smash west brom on Monday to get everyone up for the month ahead

Edited February 6, 20188 yr by Boulahrouz9

15 minutes ago, brakeit said:

Did you understand this is the same man, that won us the title? The same man that took 10th in the PL and won the title next season ?

And no this team is not good enough.

Drinkwater, Mouses, Zapacosta, Barkley, Bakayoko, so far so bad, Pedro, Cesc, Cahill and Willy are washed. And, Kante, Luiz, Azpi, a lot behind the level of last season. Rudiger and Christensen so far have been nothing special.

The truth is Conte put the bar high with the title last year. He make a lot of players to play very much above the level, but they don`t have the class to keep constantly that level. That`s the true.

And the football not work like that, you should beat this, this and this with this squad.

Otherwise top team would have 5-6 tough matches and the rest would be wins against teams you mention.

Last season City lost to Everton with 4-0 and Leicester with 4-1 .... Pretty sure they should they have better player then this team, right? But the football not work that way.

And it`s completely board fault. Because all of this is reflecting on the players. And most importantly you kill the motivation and passion in the manager. Just what happen with Conte.

So whatever it come will be the same, untill big changes happen in the board and the management of this team.

 

 

 

 

 

You call everyone else blinded but you are the most blinded of them all. Yes the board haven't signed the best players but Conte does have a say whether you like it or not, stop being so biased. Then you effectively blame the board for Conte looking like a lost soul on the touchline, interviews or whatever. It's the board's fault that Conte has been less tactically efficient than Wenger this season, of course it's not. Conte has struggled to get the basics rights with team selection and substitutions.

The board have been very poor the last few transfer windows but Conte must take a lot of the blame aswell, Chelsea have been pretty poor this season and the last month has been a joke, that's the manager.

Christensen has been good this season, Rudiger has also been good and deserves to start over Cahill, something Conte still hasn't realised even are the Bournemouth shambles. Willy has actually looked a good backup keeper and Conte was the one who changed from 343 to 352 and kept playing Fabregas until he got injured.

As much as you blame the board which is true I can come back with sh*t loads regarding what Conte has done wrong. It's been wrong from top to bottom.

5 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

It's the board's fault that Conte has been less tactically efficient than Wenger this season,

If you mean Wenger's total tactical superiority at influencing two wicked deflections and a last minute wonder goal that 99 times out of 100 would have hit row Z or the corner flag, then you are probably right.

4 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

If you mean Wenger's total tactical superiority at influencing two wicked deflections and a last minute wonder goal that 99 times out of 100 would have hit row Z or the corner flag, then you are probably right.

I was taking the piss because Conte's tactics have been predictable, stubborn and his use of subs has been poor, Wenger is known for not being tactically good. I wasn't making a direct comparison but for someone who likes looking at the stats then Arsenal beat Chelsea, Wenger also got a 0-0 at SB with an injury hit team while Conte played 5 in midfield.

For the first time yesterday Conte did seem to recognise what's going wrong and at least one change will be forced on him, something Wenger would never admit to.

So he is still here then. Guess hose execting him to be sacked are wrong. For now at least.

15 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

You call everyone else blinded but you are the most blinded of them all. Yes the board haven't signed the best players but Conte does have a say whether you like it or not, stop being so biased. Then you effectively blame the board for Conte looking like a lost soul on the touchline, interviews or whatever. It's the board's fault that Conte has been less tactically efficient than Wenger this season, of course it's not. Conte has struggled to get the basics rights with team selection and substitutions.

The board have been very poor the last few transfer windows but Conte must take a lot of the blame aswell, Chelsea have been pretty poor this season and the last month has been a joke, that's the manager.

Christensen has been good this season, Rudiger has also been good and deserves to start over Cahill, something Conte still hasn't realised even are the Bournemouth shambles. Willy has actually looked a good backup keeper and Conte was the one who changed from 343 to 352 and kept playing Fabregas until he got injured.

As much as you blame the board which is true I can come back with sh*t loads regarding what Conte has done wrong. It's been wrong from top to bottom.

It`s obvious who the blind man is. And this is not the first case it`s happen. You have no arguments about this, because is that. I have Conte quote that he clearly SAID HE HAS NO WORD AND HE IS JUST A COACH or you have some inside information maybe?

What word he have? He wanted Sanchez, he wanted Matic to stay, he wanted Danilo, Walker, Mendy, Lukaku, Llorente, Sanchez, Tolisso, Kolibali, Naingolan, Sandro, and the list goes on and he get Zapacostta, Barkley and Drinkwater.

Go fight for the title with this team. Go fight for anything. You say this team is better then that, but when Conte come, this team was at 10 place !!!

And that is with 2 different managers - Jose and Hiddink.

No this team is not good enough. Conte was good enough last season and he won the title.

And sorry but last season Conte did not once cry about anything. He said it many times from the end of the season, untill now, that this team need to strengthen. That need both class/quality and numbers. We recently added numbers, but untill then we suffer a lot of injuries, because we have to rush players, same happen with Baka and many matches we was without key players, because of fatigue or injuries or you think this things have not put influence ?

And how hard is to see, that after he did not get the backing in the summer, he was mentali gone. They just ruined, so it`s normal he is not at 100%.

But to think he has forget how to pick the right starting players, just in 2 months rest time between the season it`s more then stupid. And he forget how to train the players and what tactics to use.

And no Rudiger and Christensen are nothing special to date. Rudiger also make a lot of mistake, same goes for Christensen and we lose matches also because of them. Same s.... with Luis and Cahill.

On who should you rely if not your Captian with 2 PL titles, CL title and more then 250 matches for the club?

But you always have to complain about something and change your opinion in nick of time.
That is fun to see. Last season Conte was mad to let Fabregas in the reserve, and put Matic infront him, yeah this season we see, why Fabregas was Matic reserve. He would be sub again if there was someone to play there ....

 

 

20 minutes ago, brakeit said:

It`s obvious who the blind man is. And this is not the first case it`s happen. You have no arguments about this, because is that. I have Conte quote that he clearly SAID HE HAS NO WORD AND HE IS JUST A COACH or you have some inside information maybe?

What word he have? He wanted Sanchez, he wanted Matic to stay, he wanted Danilo, Walker, Mendy, Lukaku, Llorente, Sanchez, Tolisso, Kolibali, Naingolan, Sandro, and the list goes on and he get Zapacostta, Barkley and Drinkwater.

Go fight for the title with this team. Go fight for anything. You say this team is better then that, but when Conte come, this team was at 10 place !!!

And that is with 2 different managers - Jose and Hiddink.

No this team is not good enough. Conte was good enough last season and he won the title.

And sorry but last season Conte did not once cry about anything. He said it many times from the end of the season, untill now, that this team need to strengthen. That need both class/quality and numbers. We recently added numbers, but untill then we suffer a lot of injuries, because we have to rush players, same happen with Baka and many matches we was without key players, because of fatigue or injuries or you think this things have not put influence ?

And how hard is to see, that after he did not get the backing in the summer, he was mentali gone. They just ruined, so it`s normal he is not at 100%.

But to think he has forget how to pick the right starting players, just in 2 months rest time between the season it`s more then stupid. And he forget how to train the players and what tactics to use.

And no Rudiger and Christensen are nothing special to date. Rudiger also make a lot of mistake, same goes for Christensen and we lose matches also because of them. Same s.... with Luis and Cahill.

On who should you rely if not your Captian with 2 PL titles, CL title and more then 250 matches for the club?

But you always have to complain about something and change your opinion in nick of time.
That is fun to see. Last season Conte was mad to let Fabregas in the reserve, and put Matic infront him, yeah this season we see, why Fabregas was Matic reserve. He would be sub again if there was someone to play there ....

 

 

How do you know Conte wanted them players? They are all rumours, I would say Chelsea went for the Ox because it was everywhere that Chelsea agreed a fee but Liverpool was his boyhood club. Llorente would be a yes as he has managed him before. Danilo seemed a yes but he turned Chelsea down. Sandro seemed a yes but we still cant be sure.  The rest are all rumours and no one knows if there was anything concrete, its funny when we hear Carroll was a Conte pick it all had to be fake news, as soon as Walker, Sanchez and Co are mentioned they are Conte's players.  

Tbh i think the guess work of who Chelsea targets is getting boring, its just a way to slag or back a manager or slag or back the board. By what you say its 100% the board and Conte has not done one thing wrong. I am not going to work by percentages but its the board, manager and the players at fault. Conte has by far not been perfect this season. I will end it by saying if you really think a club would back a manager who doesn't sign an extension then you are blinded.

 

Edited February 6, 20188 yr by Ernie_blue

I think the best outcome would be a separation of coach and club by mutual consent, however there's probably a good few million reasons why Antonio wouldn't go for that.

Regarding chatter of Terry or Lampard taking the reigns some time in the future, does anyone know whether either of them has expressed a desire to get into management, and have they got their pro- badges yet?

My feeling is that they wouldn't need either the dough or the associated aggro, but I no nothing of the actual facts.

2 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

I will end it by saying if you really think a club would back a manager who doesn't sign an extension then you are blinded.

Exactly what I keep saying. The trend seems to be they provide players for positions where he indicates he wants players. If they can get who he wants they do and if not they provide someone else. 

They definitely are not breaking their backs or going against their own policies to get the players he wants and that is exactly what everyone should expect as you can't give full backing to a man that hasn't even shown the willingness to be your manager long term.

I think he realises this was a big mistake now hence his statement a couple of days that he was ready to even extend his stay beyond current contract . 

All we see today is a fall out of poor decisions made by the manager over the summer. He axed Costa, board probably tongue lashed him privately but supported him publicly, he came back in a strop and started taking pot shots at them after refusing the extension. Club probably felt slighted and just like everyone's alarm bells were ringing when he didn't extend so would theirs' have.

You may not want to stay beyond a particular time but you generally extend. If they say 4 years you say 2 years and both parties know that can fall apart in 2 months but its the tone you set by not extending.

Why should they buy who you want? 

I watched our season review win the other day and man I was proud......and now all this sh*t is upon us. We all have our opinions, and we are all fuming at every direction. Direction.....now this is something our Club does not have......be honest, we simply dont. This is an accumilation of many Things........and it has brought Conte to his knees, and ours. We have a World class manager, he wins the title convincingly, he says to himself I have proved im good enough, I have changed the PL when it comes to tactics and formation and etc. He's thinking I will be backed.....we will fight on and crack the CL as far as we can. And boom we sh*t all over him. Now he may have some input on players.....but its the players the board have identified, not the other way around. Otherwise you would see the likes of sandro here now. The Club fills the team with average players as a thank you.......spends 200m on crap players or might turn good enough player way Down the line.....at the same time we have monsters supporting their manager to the max, eventhough they had a poor first season. The season starts and not long after we can see our thin squad and lack of quality in 4 comps will end us. Injuried and tiredness sets in.....Conte not being backed deflates him and the players can see it. The media loving us to get weaker push on and puts pressure on us.....the refs keep f**king us over.....results going from bad to worse and bang we are here today. I would so so love him to stay and get backed with quaity players but not with Chels im afraid.........I would love for him to change it up Again but he looks like a zombie out there. At what point do we say stop? Why does this sh*t keep happening to us? Over and over Again.....our Club is sick.....when the same sh*t repeats itself then its the Club itself that is the issue. As I said....accumilation of many Things that have brough us here.

42 minutes ago, brakeit said:

It`s obvious who the blind man is. And this is not the first case it`s happen. You have no arguments about this, because is that. I have Conte quote that he clearly SAID HE HAS NO WORD AND HE IS JUST A COACH or you have some inside information maybe?

What word he have? He wanted Sanchez, he wanted Matic to stay, he wanted Danilo, Walker, Mendy, Lukaku, Llorente, Sanchez, Tolisso, Kolibali, Naingolan, Sandro, and the list goes on and he get Zapacostta, Barkley and Drinkwater.

Go fight for the title with this team. Go fight for anything. You say this team is better then that, but when Conte come, this team was at 10 place !!!

And that is with 2 different managers - Jose and Hiddink.

No this team is not good enough. Conte was good enough last season and he won the title.

And sorry but last season Conte did not once cry about anything. He said it many times from the end of the season, untill now, that this team need to strengthen. That need both class/quality and numbers. We recently added numbers, but untill then we suffer a lot of injuries, because we have to rush players, same happen with Baka and many matches we was without key players, because of fatigue or injuries or you think this things have not put influence ?

And how hard is to see, that after he did not get the backing in the summer, he was mentali gone. They just ruined, so it`s normal he is not at 100%.

But to think he has forget how to pick the right starting players, just in 2 months rest time between the season it`s more then stupid. And he forget how to train the players and what tactics to use.

And no Rudiger and Christensen are nothing special to date. Rudiger also make a lot of mistake, same goes for Christensen and we lose matches also because of them. Same s.... with Luis and Cahill.

On who should you rely if not your Captian with 2 PL titles, CL title and more then 250 matches for the club?

But you always have to complain about something and change your opinion in nick of time.
That is fun to see. Last season Conte was mad to let Fabregas in the reserve, and put Matic infront him, yeah this season we see, why Fabregas was Matic reserve. He would be sub again if there was someone to play there ....

 

 

So long story short when we win it's because Conte's a genius but when we lose it's everyone's fault but his? Got it.

Anyway i thought you were done with this place 3 pages ago? 

Then you get offended when i said there is a lot of blind man here. You are fast to forget. Conte by himself said he wanted this players. He said it for Danilo, Walker, Mendy and Sannchez.

And Conte did not sign an extenstion simply because he wanted to see if he will get some power in the club, and it`s show that he was right.

And if you think you will find the perfect manager, that never made mistake and so on, ooo you are delusional.

There is no such man.

And for Chelsea fan there is no good managers. Why you not try ??? You maybe the perfect candidate, who knows?

 

8 minutes ago, abister1 said:

Exactly what I keep saying. The trend seems to be they provide players for positions where he indicates he wants players. If they can get who he wants they do and if not they provide someone else. 

They definitely are not breaking their backs or going against their own policies to get the players he wants and that is exactly what everyone should expect as you can't give full backing to a man that hasn't even shown the willingness to be your manager long term.

I think he realises this was a big mistake now hence his statement a couple of days that he was ready to even extend his stay beyond current contract . 

All we see today is a fall out of poor decisions made by the manager over the summer. He axed Costa, board probably tongue lashed him privately but supported him publicly, he came back in a strop and started taking pot shots at them after refusing the extension. Club probably felt slighted and just like everyone's alarm bells were ringing when he didn't extend so would theirs' have.

You may not want to stay beyond a particular time but you generally extend. If they say 4 years you say 2 years and both parties know that can fall apart in 2 months but its the tone you set by not extending.

Why should they buy who you want? 

Even last season some people felt Conte was leaving in the summer until the new deal was signed, then ever since the summer its been the worst kept secret in football he is leaving this summer. This will not have any positive effect on a squad of football players, i just cant see how it does. 

I'm someone who blames everyone at the club but i'm not having Conte is faultless. Conte fell out with Luiz this season and you could tell Luiz couldn't give a dam last night, he was terrible. Wouldn't surprise me if he gets up for the Barca game though.

Ohh god.....when I see people saying get tuchel im lost for Words. Tuchel who himself failed badly in BD, and you wanna throw him in this madness....im sure it will end very good. 

Personally want conte to finish the season out. Even if that means dropping to 7th or 8th in the table and being hammered by barca and hull.

If he is as good a manager as he and many think he is then he will get this group back together, like he did after the arsenal game last year. He will reassess and make the best of what he has.

If not we will see if he and these players really want to be here or not. We survived the tenth place. We can survive this.

13 minutes ago, brakeit said:

Then you get offended when i said there is a lot of blind man here. You are fast to forget. Conte by himself said he wanted this players. He said it for Danilo, Walker, Mendy and Sannchez.

And Conte did not sign an extenstion simply because he wanted to see if he will get some power in the club, and it`s show that he was right.

And if you think you will find the perfect manager, that never made mistake and so on, ooo you are delusional.

There is no such man.

And for Chelsea fan there is no good managers. Why you not try ??? You maybe the perfect candidate, who knows?

 

Funny because Danilo's been rubbish for City and if we signed him you would probably say he was a board signing aswell. Who the hell said anything about a perfect manager? He doesn't/shouldn't have to be a perfect manager to realize Cahill needs to be dropped, that Baka shouldn't be playing, that three at the back is no longer working, or that playing 7 defensive players at home to Bournemouth and away to Watford is silly, and that's before i mention he is losing tactical battles against the likes of David Moyes and Roy Hogsdon.

Edited February 6, 20188 yr by Argo

22 minutes ago, abister1 said:

Exactly what I keep saying. The trend seems to be they provide players for positions where he indicates he wants players. If they can get who he wants they do and if not they provide someone else. 

They definitely are not breaking their backs or going against their own policies to get the players he wants and that is exactly what everyone should expect as you can't give full backing to a man that hasn't even shown the willingness to be your manager long term.

I think he realises this was a big mistake now hence his statement a couple of days that he was ready to even extend his stay beyond current contract . 

All we see today is a fall out of poor decisions made by the manager over the summer. He axed Costa, board probably tongue lashed him privately but supported him publicly, he came back in a strop and started taking pot shots at them after refusing the extension. Club probably felt slighted and just like everyone's alarm bells were ringing when he didn't extend so would theirs' have.

You may not want to stay beyond a particular time but you generally extend. If they say 4 years you say 2 years and both parties know that can fall apart in 2 months but its the tone you set by not extending.

Why should they buy who you want? 

Isn`t it obvious why he didn`t sign an extension or i should write it 20 times, to get it ?

It was obvious he wanted to see if he will get what he want. He wanted more power and the board to get the player he wanted. Now you washed their hand with that, because he didn`t sign extenstion. He didn`t sign it, because the first summer he didn`t get the player he wanted and he wanted to see if they was willing to give him what he want. Not happen - no extension it`s so simple.

 Ernie_blue, my last comment on this one. No of course the managers is always to blame. First it was Carlo, then 2 time Jose and now Conte.

Just as it happen with Mou the first time, he goes to Inter and won treble and Carlo won CL, that will happen and with Conte. He is in prime, will go to top club and will win everything and only we will suffer.

 

 

Edited February 6, 20188 yr by brakeit

6 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Personally want conte to finish the season out. Even if that means dropping to 7th or 8th in the table and being hammered by barca and hull.

If he is as good a manager as he and many think he is then he will get this group back together, like he did after the arsenal game last year. He will reassess and make the best of what he has.

If not we will see if he and these players really want to be here or not. We survived the tenth place. We can survive this.

if he stays and has the backing of the board, he should drop the non performing players even it means playing youth. and all those players should be shown the door 

no point playing them and dropping to 7th or 8th while you can give the chance to the youth get the same result

Edited February 6, 20188 yr by theone

You have to feel for Conte. Firstly he refused to sign a longer deal but got a pay rise anyway, but he's still only on about 300 trillion a year.

 

Next he sent that text to Costa and what did the board do? They backed him, which is hardly playing fair really is it?

 

Yes they may have given him £360m worth of new players but they failed to get Nainggolan, Vidal, Bonucci, Sandro and Koulibaly. Players that every other manager in the world has got.

 

The squad is too small he says so our stupid board take him at his word and make it big enough, when what he really wants, clearly, is only 2 or 3 players. Jesus does he have to spell everything out?

 

He's getting the maximum out of his squad. We know this because he told us. Don't believe everything you see with your own eyes.

 

We sold or loaned all our youngsters, which was thoughtless given he was giving them so many minutes. Loftus-Cheek, Ake, Kenedy, Musonda, Chalobah, Zouma and Aina. How dare the board want them to play games. Who are these people?

 

Jose said something about clowns, since when we've only won about 1 in 10. That's hardly Conte's fault. He heard the word clowns. What was he meant to do? Laugh it off and make Jose even more riled? That's not how caring and sharing people behave.

 

This summer he wanted even more of his own backroom team and the board let him have it. Now the only non-Italian left in the gaff is Jody Morris. The board should have replaced Jody Morris with Matteo Giordanido. No wonder this whole situation has escalated.

 

All the speculation is so unfair, he now wants a vote of confidence from the board. It's not his fault he fuels the speculation at every press conference by making his unhappiness crystal clear. What is he meant to do, present a united front? He's a football manager. He has to be entirely truthful at all times.

 

To cap it all, the board won't even sack him, when he's made it abundantly plain he'd like nothing more than to go back to Italy with a cool compensation package in his pocket. A man's got to live. I really do despair of our board sometimes.

1 minute ago, coco said:

Don't forget the pretext to Costa text.  

Costa already wanted out in the summer and went AWOL, then came back overweight and grumbling about leaving.

 

I agree with you entirely coco. I'm just saying Conte handled the situation immaculately. I think he really went up in the estimation of our squad. Stupid board.

Then we have the Luiz factor, not all seemed well between Conte and Luiz and wasn't Luiz best buddies with Costa.

3 hours ago, charierre said:

Regardless of the idiosyncrasies of the board,Conte is paid very well to do a job for the club. For the past month he has posted a sullen figure of himself, dragging the team down with him. Last night he acknowledged the team started slowly( a trait very evident under his tenure) and he picked the wrong starting eleven. Personally I think it beggars belief he didn't think a left side of Cahill, Zappacosta, Bakayoko and Pedro backed up by Luiz in the centre all of whom have either regressed or simply not good enough, was strong enough and wouldn't get targetted. We all watched as the horror performance by Bakayoko unfolded for 30 minutes, would He hook him, change things around? Nope not a jot, he allowed things to happen. Not what you expect of a world class coach being paid more in a week than many will earn in 10 years, he has taken his eye off the ball, allowed his squabbles to stop him doing the job he's good at. He is posturing for a good payoff, daring the owner to sack him like so many before. 

So Antonio, why not  show good a coach you are, see the job through and stop with your miserable demeanour. Keep the whinging for the close season behind closed doors and if you must then depart, so be it. If though you can't put your differences behind you and coach to the best of your ability with a smile on your face, maybe it's for the best you go now.

Beautiful post. 

43 minutes ago, Davey Baby said:

You have to feel for Conte. Firstly he refused to sign a longer deal but got a pay rise anyway, but he's still only on about 300 trillion a year.

 

Next he sent that text to Costa and what did the board do? They backed him, which is hardly playing fair really is it?

 

Yes they may have given him £360m worth of new players but they failed to get Nainggolan, Vidal, Bonucci, Sandro and Koulibaly. Players that every other manager in the world has got.

 

The squad is too small he says so our stupid board take him at his word and make it big enough, when what he really wants, clearly, is only 2 or 3 players. Jesus does he have to spell everything out?

 

He's getting the maximum out of his squad. We know this because he told us. Don't believe everything you see with your own eyes.

 

We sold or loaned all our youngsters, which was thoughtless given he was giving them so many minutes. Loftus-Cheek, Ake, Kenedy, Musonda, Chalobah, Zouma and Aina. How dare the board want them to play games. Who are these people?

 

Jose said something about clowns, since when we've only won about 1 in 10. That's hardly Conte's fault. He heard the word clowns. What was he meant to do? Laugh it off and make Jose even more riled? That's not how caring and sharing people behave.

 

This summer he wanted even more of his own backroom team and the board let him have it. Now the only non-Italian left in the gaff is Jody Morris. The board should have replaced Jody Morris with Matteo Giordanido. No wonder this whole situation has escalated.

 

All the speculation is so unfair, he now wants a vote of confidence from the board. It's not his fault he fuels the speculation at every press conference by making his unhappiness crystal clear. What is he meant to do, present a united front? He's a football manager. He has to be entirely truthful at all times.

 

To cap it all, the board won't even sack him, when he's made it abundantly plain he'd like nothing more than to go back to Italy with a cool compensation package in his pocket. A man's got to live. I really do despair of our board sometimes.

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This is what I also don't understand, didn't he recently say that we shouldn't have signed too many players, we only needed to get 3-4 world class players? I'm very sure in the summer he was crying about squad depth. 

I mean sure he probably doesn't have full control of transfers, but we've signed all of our wingbacks from the Serie A, I cannot subscribe to the idea that Conte has no or little say in the transfer dealings. Obsessed with tall strikers, going after Serie A players? And you think Conte has no say? Okay then.

And welcome back Davey, please stop going away for so long.