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Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

SargeantMeatCurtains

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The kneejerkers and bed wetters who have been worried about the sustainability of our performances despite the initial positive results aren’t looking so knee jerky and bed wettery anymore. Our dogshit, turgid performances have finally caught up with us.
 

Danny1

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I know there will be a lot of messages tonight / tomorrow saying Conte out or something similar but i genuinely don’t think that is the answer.

We have a large amount of players who are simply just not good enough. The likes of Lloris, Dier, Sanchez, Davies, Doherty, Emerson, Sessegnon, Moura, Gil are quite simply just not good enough.

We have a distinct lack of quality in key positions and then if you take out Romero, PEH, Deki and Richarlison we are a million miles behind the quality required for even top 4.

I would actually state that I would replace the entire back 6 from tonight’s game in an instant.
 

VancouverSpur

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Just weird for me as Conte relies on proactive, pacey attack minded yet defensively competent wings yet persists with same selection.
Yes those wingbacks are hard to find in todays market (Errr cough cough Spence) but it feels a lot like Poch in the end days where he almost self sabotaged.
 

Jamturk

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Set-piece and penalty merchants, that's all we got. Set-pieces have probably suffered because we have 2 games a week and less spare training sessions.

Where are these famous attacking patterns that is supposed to separate Mourinho from Conte?

We've regressed since pre-season, chasing a goal 10 minutes to go what does he do? Fucking Doherty and Davies, I mean WTF?? Talk about making the heart sink.

Then he has the audacity to talk down to us as if he is doing our club a favour, fuck off.
 

mrlilywhite

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Sep 1, 2008
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I could give Conte slack if he actually had a worthwhile tactical philosophy, which included the flexibility to change when things are not with us. The reason we're not actually changing our fortune is we keep churning out the same old shit, week in, week out.
All we're doing now is delaying the inevitable. We persevered with Jose with the same old style that just wasn't changing, and sacked him far too late, we then downgraded with Nuno, only to bring in Conte with the same style and mentality as Jose and Nuno. No team is scared to face us right now. Once you've stopped Son's runs - you've got a whole game to just sit high and pepper Hugo's goal. I'd actually accept Conte's resignation right now in the hope we actually get a manager that wants us to actually attack teams and sign some creative players, ideally a creative playmaker and let Kane get back to just being that focal point up front.
 

dtxspurs

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I know there will be a lot of messages tonight / tomorrow saying Conte out or something similar but i genuinely don’t think that is the answer.

We have a large amount of players who are simply just not good enough. The likes of Lloris, Dier, Sanchez, Davies, Doherty, Emerson, Sessegnon, Moura, Gil are quite simply just not good enough.

We have a distinct lack of quality in key positions and then if you take out Romero, PEH, Deki and Richarlison we are a million miles behind the quality required for even top 4.

I would actually state that I would replace the entire back 6 from tonight’s game in an instant.
Lloris and Dier have been largely excellent under conte. The rest hardly play or have been upgraded. I’m not buying that excuse. We’ve been shit even with Romero, PEH and Richarlison all in the lineup.
 

glacierSpurs

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I know there will be a lot of messages tonight / tomorrow saying Conte out or something similar but i genuinely don’t think that is the answer.

We have a large amount of players who are simply just not good enough. The likes of Lloris, Dier, Sanchez, Davies, Doherty, Emerson, Sessegnon, Moura, Gil are quite simply just not good enough.

We have a distinct lack of quality in key positions and then if you take out Romero, PEH, Deki and Richarlison we are a million miles behind the quality required for even top 4.

I would actually state that I would replace the entire back 6 from tonight’s game in an instant.
You don't say. That's a scary thought. Mind you we haven't even flopped Lo Celso, Winks and Ndombele!!

I wouldn't mind Reguilon back at all, healthily. Perisic and Sess are showing signs of knockoffs despite pre season promises.
 

-Afri-Coy-

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Jun 26, 2012
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The kneejerkers and bed wetters who have been worried about the sustainability of our performances despite the initial positive results aren’t looking so knee jerky and bed wettery anymore. Our dogshit, turgid performances have finally caught up with us.

If you constantly throw shit at the wall eventually some of it is going to stick.
 

mpickard2087

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Jun 13, 2008
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Grinding an axe - GIF on Imgur
 

THFC_SWE

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Aug 31, 2012
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He's a one trick pony with his counter attacking football. It's the only tool he has. It works when we score the first goal and can continue to counter attack, but it doesn’t work when the opponent score the first one or two goals. With his salary you have to ask for more than that.
 
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SargeantMeatCurtains

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Jan 5, 2013
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I know there will be a lot of messages tonight / tomorrow saying Conte out or something similar but i genuinely don’t think that is the answer.

We have a large amount of players who are simply just not good enough. The likes of Lloris, Dier, Sanchez, Davies, Doherty, Emerson, Sessegnon, Moura, Gil are quite simply just not good enough.

We have a distinct lack of quality in key positions and then if you take out Romero, PEH, Deki and Richarlison we are a million miles behind the quality required for even top 4.

I would actually state that I would replace the entire back 6 from tonight’s game in an instant.
You can keep blaming the players all you like but you simply cannot ignore the fact we didn’t test the goalkeeper once after scoring. When you have Kane and Son up front, the manager needs to take the flack.
 

glacierSpurs

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He's doing his own rep no favours right now.
Saw posters saying he's defending his defeats from being too embarrassing so he threw in the towel early in losses against the top teams. Guess his records aren't that good with us now so far
 

kendoddsdadsdogsdead

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It is mostly the players. No manager is doing better with players who don’t like or want the ball. Dier, Davies, Sanchez, PEH, Royal, we are also a slow team to go with it.
 
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