How did you learn this?
Obviously you never know in football but if he's still here come Monday/Tuesday i'd be a bit surprised. Having said that, it's an international break so who knows how long it'll take for Levy to send him his P45 or Conte to quit.
"as he saw him as a ‘perfect Conte wing back’"It was widely reported last season that Paratici was scouting Spence - he was even spotted at a match watching him.
And I think there was ITK in here that Levy negotiated the deal because of an existing connection.
Infairness mate I think most people actually agree with him calling out the players for consistently weak performances but also acknowledge that he himself is partly to blame for that as well.You know what really pisses me off? People's inability to understand that you can believe in two statements that in part oppose each other. Does my fucking head in. You can be in support of Conte's comments AND want him gone at the same time....
You know what really pisses me off? People's inability to understand that you can believe in two statements that in part oppose each other. Does my fucking head in. You can be in support of Conte's comments AND want him gone at the same time....
Conte protecting his image? To what end? Do people seriously think he gives a rats arse about that? His reputation will remain intact and he'll be a sought after manager regardless of anything that happens at a club that are specialists in failure. The inner world of football is a LOT more pragmatic than the highly strung state of a clubs fans.
I think if we had a less rigid defensive manager and style and we played to our players strengths and we didn’t have to re-build the squad to a 3atb system and had instead spent the money on a CB and creative attacking midfielder I think we’d be easily 3rd and still in at least 2 of the cup competitions.
The same players haven't been here for 20 years. We've had several teams in that time. Some were good, most weren't. Conte's told some good home truths, but it was also he who fucked this season up. We were primed after back to back london derby wins, and then they all fucked it up. Too fucking late to bemoan losing to sheffield reserves when that game was there for the taking.
Stamping your feet saying I want to win is just childish nonsense. You have to create a side that can win. That side have to be able to play proper football with proper character. We play walking football and apparently are in 'control's at 3-1.
The side's evolution and progress toward winning is very important. How you play leads to how you win. We had an upturn under one manager especially, and then we fucked it all away. That was about the only time the club's culture looked like turning.
It's the 4th time in 4 or 5 years that Levy will appoint some negative football bullshit manager who will coincidentally be an ex-Chelsea managerFor the second time in 2 years we are about to look up and down everyone at the football club, decide someone has to go and choose the only one in the building that's ever won at football before.
This is clever