Well it is a chance for a trophy, and one that Man City can not stand in our way of nor that of the other 3 sides.

And it is Spurs. So go as strong as we can and go for it.

Rest players against Chesterfield.

The usual Marcos Alonso plus 10 others please. 

Kante and Kova together in the middle please. 

As usual this is dependant on fitness but I would like to see:

 

Kepa

 

Dave

Silva

Rudiger

 

CHO

Kante

Kovacic

Alonso

 

Mount

Havertz

Pulisic

Conte needs some serious karma for the way he behaved at the end of his time here.

6-0 please.

Presumably we will see a similar team to the one that started against Liverpool. with some of the academy players then given a run out against Chesterfield.

Lukaku 3 hours before kick off “It is my dream to reunite with Conte”

8 hours ago, Argo said:

Conte needs some serious karma for the way he behaved at the end of his time here.

6-0 please.

Even though he’s coming back with probably one of our most hated rivals I still hope he gets a decentish reception. The we can absolutely batter the f**k out of them. 

Lukaku is expected to start after returning to training and holding clear the air talks today.

Maybe a couple are allowed this game and Chesterfield off but TT is taking this game very serious apparently.

However basically all the first team squad players bar the likes of Barkley, Saul, Sarr, Marcus B, Chalobah, RLC, Ziyech and Werner are expected to be given time off are the FA cup game.

Don't play Lukaku here, as soon as he sees Conte he'll start crying like a little girl.

Conte doesn’t have a great cup record but obviously Tuchel does. Spuds and Arsenal are both very good teams now. 
‘this has the makings of a good game. 
however the squad is very thin with the injuries and even if the league is a stretch there is still the champions league. 
personally I want to give kova/Kante/Jorginho a  rest and Silva. 
 

watching ManU made clear, yet again, how vital it is to have a good midfield. We have to keep our good midfielders on deck for the big games, but I’m not sure this is one. 

I'd play Lukaku vs Conte. Perfect timing really. Lukaku should be proper motivated to show him whatswhat. True test to how 'pro' he really is - it's a big game for the club but it's a much bigger game for Rom. Can he step up?

10 hours ago, Gol15 said:

Don't play Lukaku here, as soon as he sees Conte he'll start crying like a little girl.

Wouldn't surprise me if the arsehole came on wearing a tottingham shirt.

9 hours ago, weetee said:

I'd play Lukaku vs Conte. Perfect timing really. Lukaku should be proper motivated to show him whatswhat. True test to how 'pro' he really is - it's a big game for the club but it's a much bigger game for Rom. Can he step up?

There is absolutely no 'pro' about that prick.

Imagine that Lukaku will play and it will be a tough game for him given that Conte knows absolutely everything about him. 
 

We know exactly what Spurs will do - sit back and counter attack with Son and Kane. Liverpool were able to consistently get at our back line and open spaces so we will need to be careful. 
 

Conte has turned them around - 18/24 points.  

I don’t care much about the League Cup but it’s those c**ts from north London. Batter them.

Wonder how we’ll “welcome“ Conte back. If it was with other team, I’d applaud him, but the spuds… hopefully he gets the same treatment Mourinho got when he visited wit Manure.

Full strength team against The Spuds tomorrow and play B squad for FA Cup...

Keppa

Dave Silva Rudiger 

CHO Kante Kovacic Alonso

Havertz Lukaku Mount

22 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

Lukaku 3 hours before kick off “It is my dream to reunite with Conte”

As long as he put 3 past spurs he can even say he want to marry Conte i don't give a damn

Considering what happened the last time Antonio Conte was present for a game against Tottenham at Stamford Bridge, I hope we batter seven shades of sh*t out of them.

Not that I wouldn't anyway of course...

It’s a chance for another trophy so we should go strong and we can rest a few for the fa cup game.

Kepa 

azbi Silva rudiger 

CHO kante kova alonso 

mount lukaku havertz 

Telegraph have released an exclusive on the Conte fallout at Chelsea, but it’s behind a paywall…

don’t suppose anyone has a subscription here?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/01/04/inside-story-antonio-contes-split-chelsea/

2 hours ago, Term_X said:

Telegraph have released an exclusive on the Conte fallout at Chelsea, but it’s behind a paywall…

don’t suppose anyone has a subscription here?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/01/04/inside-story-antonio-contes-split-chelsea/

 Every which way about any fallout, the proper response is "f**k 'em".

It was inside the luxury Ritz-Carlton Millenia hotel in Singapore on Chelsea’s pre-season tour that Antonio Conte, fuelled by two shots of super-strength espresso, made the cracks between himself and the club public one year ahead of what became the most expensive sacking in English football history. Conte had not wanted to give up an hour of work with his squad to toe the party line with the group of English journalists who had made the long journey to cover the preparations for Chelsea’s Premier League title defence in the summer of 2017. But finally convinced there was no getting out of his media duties, Conte checked on the quality of the coffee, downed his espressos and let rip - revealing he had wanted to sign Kyle Walker from Tottenham Hotspur before the right-back’s £50 million move to Manchester City and making clear his admiration for Harry Kane just a few days after Chelsea had broken their club record to sign a different striker, Alvaro Morata. It was in the same summer that Conte had also wanted to sign Romelu Lukaku ahead of Morata and defender Virgil van Dijk rather than Antonio Rudiger, with the Belgian ending up at Manchester United and the Dutchman moving to Liverpool, along with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who picked Anfield ahead of west London. In the end, the divorce was so bitter it resulted in a legal battle that cost Chelsea more than £26m. So there will be a few awkward nods and glances when Conte makes his first return to Stamford Bridge as Tottenham head coach, in the first leg of the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night, with Kane leading his attack. Conte won two lawsuits against Chelsea, one for unfair dismissal and another for the wages he believed he was owed under the terms of his contract, with the full cost to the Blues made clear 18 months after his dismissal in July 2018. The club’s accounts, released in January two years ago for the year ending June 30, 2019, said: “Exceptional items in the current year of £26.6m relate to changes in respect of the men’s team management and coaching staff, together with associated legal costs.” That statement was not much shorter than the 61 words Chelsea had used to confirm Conte’s dismissal, without so much as a word of thanks for his Premier League title success and the FA Cup he delivered at the end of what proved to be his final stormy season in charge. Conte was given his own personalised emoji by Chelsea for winning the title in his first season in charge, in which the Blues finished seven points ahead of Spurs. But at the end of the following campaign, Willian, who made an 89th-minute appearance as a substitute in the final, used trophy emojis to cover up the Italian in a picture to celebrate winning the FA Cup. Chelsea gave Conte the silent treatment following the Cup success during the summer in which they eventually sacked him, offering him no congratulations and leaving him in the dark over his future. The fact he was allowed to return for the start of pre-season training before being formally informed of his sacking three days later looked like the final act of revenge for the previous summer in which Chelsea believed Conte had done a disappearing act on them. Some sources suspected Conte was considering an offer from Inter Milan, when he did not pick up the telephone, return messages or respond to emails as, one-by-one, he watched his main transfer targets join Chelsea’s rivals. Whatever the exact reasons behind it, Conte’s silence sent Chelsea into a state of panic and convinced them he wanted out. Peace talks were hastily arranged and a new contract was eventually signed, but, tellingly, there was no extension and trust on both sides had been eradicated. Conte also left Chelsea to pick up the pieces of his decision to inform Diego Costa that he would no longer be part of his plans by text message. The Brazilian had tried to force a move to China a few months earlier and used the text to effectively go on strike, leaving the Blues with little or no bargaining power over his sale to Atletico Madrid. Diego Costa walks past Antonio Conte It would not have improved the mood of the Chelsea hierarchy that Conte laughed his way through questions over Costa’s plea for the club to reduce their asking price for him, describing the striker’s words as “funny”. By that time, in August 2017, Conte was not in dialogue with anybody more senior inside Stamford Bridge than technical director Michael Emenalo, who, partly worn down by being a peacemaker, left Chelsea three months later and tensions boiled up again in January 2018, as one of his targets, Alexis Sanchez, joined Lukaku at United. United had finished sixth, 24 points behind Chelsea, and yet Conte felt the Old Trafford club, Liverpool, who had scraped into the top four, and Manchester City, who had finished third and without a trophy in Pep Guardiola’s first season in charge, gave better backing to their managers. Conte had even seen a desperate move for Fernando Llorente fail at the hands of Tottenham, a club, back on that infamous pre-season tour of Singapore and China, he had described as being one where failure could be tolerated. “What are Tottenham’s expectations?” said Conte. “If they don’t win the title it’s not a tragedy. If they don’t arrive in the Champions League it’s not a tragedy. If they go out in the first round of the Champions League it’s not a tragedy. If they go out in the Europa League against Gent, it’s not a tragedy. They can breathe and think in a different way.” It was treated as a tragedy at Chelsea that Conte’s team finished his second season behind City, United, Tottenham and Liverpool, missing out on Champions League qualification. But the former Juventus manager took pride in the fact a squad he felt had been weakened by those above him finished with a trophy by beating United to lift the FA Cup after which, in the post-match press conference, he repeated seven times ‘I can’t change’. It is Spurs and not Conte who will have to change for their relationship to work. And, despite retaining a place in his heart for Chelsea’s fans and maintaining his respect for the club, the 52 year-old will do everything in his power to get another one over his old employers - just as they would relish taking some revenge of their own for a divorce that was too painful and expensive to simply forget.