Those two seasons don't matter, it's the last one that's the more relevant to where we are just now.

Conte is by far more demanding of his players than Jose ever was, you can see it from the touchine. He screams at his players to close down and harass the opposition on the ball.

Our players are not used to that so will need to dig in and show Conte they deserve to be at our club.

Both previous seasons are relevant because they show last season was bad due to some certain regrettable decisions made. Conte being more demanding doesn't mean the players won't listen or work for him. Let's not pretend it all went south last season due to laziness of the players.

Let's not pretend it all went south last season due to laziness of the players.

How can I pretend when the evidence on the park was quite clear that a large percentage of our players 'chucked it'.

These are grown men who are paid to play football, if something going on in the background makes them throw the towel in and put in disgraceful performances then they simply don't deserve to play at Chelsea.

What I am saying is Conte wont allow those types of personalities to destroy our dressing room and effect our form...he will go through them and punt them into touch...Exactly what is in order.

I think I love the guy already. I love managers who have abit of character - Jose 2004 etc.

Brendan Rodgers also likes character

How can I pretend when the evidence on the park was quite clear that a large percentage of our players 'chucked it'.

These are grown men who are paid to play football, if something going on in the background makes them throw the towel in and put in disgraceful performances then they simply don't deserve to play at Chelsea.

What I am saying is Conte wont allow those types of personalities to destroy our dressing room and effect our form...he will go through them and punt them into touch...Exactly what is in order.

If Conte doesn't act with petulance and unprofessionalism whereby his players start to wonder about his integrity thereby leading to conflict he won't have issues. I believe if Conte can avoid Jose's pitfalls, we won't have any problems no matter how demanding he is.

He should kick the players heads like he kicked the ball yesterday if they don't play for him :)

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That celebration when Italy scored the second was f**king brilliant

I love him already!

 

A head kicker when he needs to be, but most importantly a passionate and tactically astute manager that we need for our rebuild to be successful.

Love his passion, however I think some of our players will struggle with his demands.

 

Thats on them and if they cant do what he asks, its them and not him that needs to leave. I particularly like the way they try and play from the back at virtually all times. 

The earliest Euro dawning on Conte’s management skills broke during The Guardian Podcast prior to Italy’s group stage defeat of Belgium. The presenter, James (Jimbo) Richardson, was encouraging debate on who was likely to win the match with his assembled crew for that morning, one of whom was Michael Cox, the newspaper’s very own tactical analyst. It was he who bucked the trend in favour of Belgium and the conversation went as follows:-

 

Michael Cox - “There is something about this side [belguim] that I don’t trust that I do trust with Italy and maybe that’s all about the manager. Italy have probably got the best manager in the competition, whereas Wilmotts is somebody who hasn’t really proved himself at any level of football.” 

 

James Richardson - “You’re a Conte fan are you?”

 

Cox - “Oh, I think he is the best manager by far in this tournament, by absolutely miles.”

 

Richardson - “Really?”

 

Cox - “I can’t imagine any other manager in this tournament getting a really top club job.”

 

Richardson - “Okay…”

 

Cox - “…whereas Conte obviously is… well, it’s Chelsea you know…”

 

Richardson - “Okay, interesting, interesting. “

 

Interesting, indeed, and classic dumbing-down on Richardson‘s part, bearing in mind he is a self-confessed admirer of the Italian game and therefore knew of Conte’s qualities only too well. The fact that he struggles to give Chelsea the time of day, let alone have any time for the club at all, accounts for his feigned surprise and rapid closure of conversation, but Cox was prepared to go out on a limb anyway and has duly emerged as a good judge of Conte’s managerial talent. The Italian press were also quick to follow suit, a rapturous Gazzetta match report concluding “Italy played the most beautiful game of the Conte era. They did it playing in an Italian style - but in the most noble sense of those words - without using catenaccio, but defending themselves with a compact and intelligent block to then counter into those spaces that [belgium manager Marc] Wilmots presumptuously failed to close.”

 

Then Xavi gave his two-pennyworth, in a prophet of doom style prior to Spain’s comeuppance. He didn’t mince his words either - “When Italy need to come out with the ball, having three at the back and two wide players means they have five possible people to carry it out - which makes it difficult for Spain to press as they would like. Then, playing with two strikers complicates things further forward, because it occupies both of our centre-backs and then one of the two full-backs has to step forward to close down [Antonio] Candreva or [Alessandro] Florenzi - leaving you with only three at the back. At the World Cup in Brazil, both Holland and Chile chose to use a 3-5-2 against us and it put is in great difficulty.” 

 

Such a contrast in mood and honesty when compared to an indifferent Marc Wilmots who, clearly bristling at the criticism he was getting, dismissed Belguim’s humiliation in all too simplistic fashion, declaring it to be the natural outcome when faced with a back three steeped in irreplaceable knowledge of the Conte system and its workings. To imply that the Italian can’t replicate this tactical master class with another set of three [or a mix-and-match of them] is both naïve and ungracious, but I suppose the proof of this particular pudding will come next season, when he is with us in the Premier League. Of course, there are many Chelsea fans who believe our new boss should think again about playing 3-5-2, regardless of personnel, citing the system’s failure in other managerial hands in recent years, but if anybody can repeat the back three card trick with a completely new deck it is surely this man and his well drilled backroom staff.

 

More to the point, he has a massive pack to draw from, not only defensively, but in the other interwoven midfield and attacking areas as well. At the last count, Chelsea’s retained list of Contract Players had a Carlsberg feel to it, with probably the best and longest retained list in the world looking like this in alphabetical order…

 

Abraham, Aina, Ake, Ali, Angban, Bekanty, Azpilicueta, Baba, Baker, Bamford, Beeney, Begovic, Blackman, Boga, Jeremie, Brown, Cahill, Chalobah, Christensen, Christie-Davies, Clarke-Salter, Colkett, Collins, Conroy, Courtois, Cuadrado, Cuevas, Costa, Dabo, Dasilva, Davey, De Souza, Delac, Djilobodji, Fabregas, Feruz, Grant, Hazard, Hector, Houghton, Ivanovic, Kalas, Kane, Kiwomya, Loftus Cheek, Maddox, Marin, Matic, Miazga, Mikel, Mitchell, Moses, Mount, Muheim, Musonda, Nunes Ancient [Kenedy], Oliveira Dos Santos [Wallace], Omeruo, Palmer, Pantic, Pasalic, Perica, Piazon, Pedro, Quintero, Remy, Rodriguez, Salah, Sammut, Scott, Solanke, Suljic, Swift, Terry, Thompson, Tomori, Traore, Ugbo, Van Ginkel, Willian, Wakefield, Zouma.

 

By my reckoning, a half-dozen, half-decent 3-5-2 teams can be cobbled together from this lot and while I wouldn’t know where to start in terms of selecting, schooling or motivating them, who can deny that Conte isn’t the right man for that job and he wouldn’t be able to find a Premier League winning team in there somewhere within a season or two? Leonardo Bonucci certainly wouldn‘t and I‘ll leave the last words of eulogy to him, delivered after yesterday’s victory over Spain:- “Conte is a coach who is really able to implement a plan. He is more and more important in every match. This process [which he] started two years ago has been essential. This national side is shorn of great talent, so we have to come together as a team. We need a playing style, and Conte really is the master in this area.” 

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We are 5/1 to win the league next year.... hmmmm

If Conte doesn't act with petulance and unprofessionalism 

Why not when players do this on a regular basis.

His passion alone I think hes going to be idolised down at the bridge. Well excited

Afraid he will go ballistic when he sees Mikel walking around giving up goals or cesc being invisible for half the season or Hazard playing based on his mood or willian giving up the ball every time he is in possession. He will scream at them and be disgruntled resulting in the palpable discord line in december.

If they players cant take it, fook em !

Afraid he will go ballistic when he sees Mikel walking around giving up goals or cesc being invisible for half the season or Hazard playing based on his mood or willian giving up the ball every time he is in possession. He will scream at them and be disgruntled resulting in the palpable discord line in december.

 

Then make the message clear. Anyone who doesnt follow the manager can be shown the door. The player power in the dressing room needs to be squashed ASAP.

Then make the message clear. Anyone who doesnt follow the manager can be shown the door. The player power in the dressing room needs to be squashed ASAP.

The club would rather change managers based on past experiences. Hope we back Conte but wishful thinking for now.

Though it might be a silly question but then i really want to know who signed Conte for us? Is it Abramovich or the same person who sign players for us?

 

Interesting, indeed, and classic dumbing-down on Richardson‘s part, bearing in mind he is a self-confessed admirer of the Italian game and therefore knew of Conte’s qualities only too well. The fact that he struggles to give Chelsea the time of day, let alone have any time for the club at all, accounts for his feigned surprise and rapid closure of conversation, but Cox was prepared to go out on a limb anyway and has duly emerged as a good judge of Conte’s managerial talent. The Italian press were also quick to follow suit, a rapturous Gazzetta match report concluding “Italy played the most beautiful game of the Conte era. They did it playing in an Italian style - but in the most noble sense of those words - without using catenaccio, but defending themselves with a compact and intelligent block to then counter into those spaces that [belgium manager Marc] Wilmots presumptuously failed to close.”

 

What's with this victim complex? It's very Liverpool-esque.

 

Then Xavi gave his two-pennyworth, in a prophet of doom style prior to Spain’s comeuppance. He didn’t mince his words either - “When Italy need to come out with the ball, having three at the back and two wide players means they have five possible people to carry it out - which makes it difficult for Spain to press as they would like. Then, playing with two strikers complicates things further forward, because it occupies both of our centre-backs and then one of the two full-backs has to step forward to close down [Antonio] Candreva or [Alessandro] Florenzi - leaving you with only three at the back. At the World Cup in Brazil, both Holland and Chile chose to use a 3-5-2 against us and it put is in great difficulty.” 

 

 

Think he'll make a good manager someday.

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talking with pedro and azpi. 

 

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Been very impressed so far.  Might just be the man who can steady the ship.  Italy is obviously a talented group but I like how he has the team as a whole playing great and not relying on a handful of superstar talents.  Sadly, we may need this skill set in a manager if next season isn't stellar or even depending on how this transfer window pans out.

 

Lets hope he is given everything he needs (within reason) to transform this team into challengers again, if not champions.

Brendan Rodgers also likes character

 

We all admire what we cannot have.

I think with Conte we are clinching the CL spot maybe even fight for the title right away.

Looks as mad as a box of frogs.

He was running up and down the touch line and kicking every ball yesterday (even the one he really did kick)

Wonder if he'll get up Arsen's nose at all...

Can't wait for next season now

I think with Conte we are clinching the CL spot maybe even fight for the title right away.

Not with the current squad.

Lol maybe with Leicester or Spurs squad then.