Sitting 4th with a seven point lead over a team that has 3 games in hand. Everyone's looking at Liverpool when Newcastle is the bigger risk.
Newcastle don't win enough games (record 10-11-3, their strength has been not losing) and have been on the slide for two months now (last win Jan 15, their only PL win this year. 5 games winless)Sitting 4th with a seven point lead over a team that has 3 games in hand. Everyone's looking at Liverpool when Newcastle is the bigger risk.
Nah. Wenger won the FA Cup multiple times during that period.
100% with you on that one. A few months ago before the world cup he kept saying the likes of Sarr are club signings that are not yet ready to play first team football but when his hand was completely forced by the injuries and Sarr slotted in admirably he changed his tune saying we 100% trust him, so dishonourable. I only wonder what contribution Spence could have made if he was given a chance all those weeks when Royal looked totally lost and bereft of confidence on the right side but Conte's stubborness would not allow him to give the 'club signing' a chance.I don't mind him staying til the end of the season but I don't want him to get another contract. The football is terrible to watch most of the time and he'll want huge money invested in this same flawed system. I want a different coach with more flexibility and less melodrama who uses the squad at his disposal. We've been incredibly lucky that Skipp has slotted in so seamlessly with Bentancur out, but Conte would never have used him if not in a crisis. Same with Sarr. Have had enough of Conte and his stubbornness.
100% with you on that one. A few months ago before the world cup he kept saying the likes of Sarr are club signings that are not yet ready to play first team football but when his hand was completely forced by the injuries and Sarr slotted in admirably he changed his tune saying we 100% him, so dishonourable. I only wonder what contribution Spence could have made if he was given a chance all those weeks when Royal looked totally lost and bereft of confidence on the right side but no Conte's stubborness would not allow him to give the 'club signing' a chance.
Keep him on till the end of the season, hopefully get top 4 and then it has to be adios. Could not tolerate another season of this selfish egomaniac and the dull shitshow that his system serves up every week.
I think he is the sort of manager that will cut off his nose to spite his own face. So if the club does not sign the exact player he wants in a certain position then he will make his point by leaving them to rot on the sidelines. It is clear we wanted Trossard in this window but once Arsenal's Mudryk move fell through and they switched targets, we were always going to miss out on Trossard given the season they are having and we then had to pivot to snatch Danjuma from Everton. Yes he may not have been first choice but sometimes that is how the cards fall and you just have to play the hand you are dealt which is apparently beyond him.Yeah Skipp and Sarr performances very much undermined the idea that Conte's choices were correct based on the fact he watches them in training. Clearly some players are not getting a fair crack.
I think he is the sort of manager that will cut off his nose to spite his own face. So if the club does not sign the exact player he wants in a certain position then he will make his point by leaving them to rot on the sidelines. It is clear we wanted Trossard in this window but once Arsenal's Mudryk move fell through and they switched targets, we were always going to miss out on Trossard given the season they are having and we then had to pivot to snatch Danjuma from Everton. Yes he may not have been first choice but sometimes that is how the cards fall and you just have to play the hand you are dealt which is apparently beyond him.
Conte isnt going to give young players a chance unless he has to. Conte only trusts ready made players cos it's less coaching. Sarr won't get anymore starts unless Skipp or PEH get injured.Yeah Skipp and Sarr performances very much undermined the idea that Conte's choices were correct based on the fact he watches them in training. Clearly some players are not getting a fair crack.
Conte isnt going to give young players a chance unless he has to. Conte only trusts ready made players cos it's less coaching. Sarr won't get anymore starts unless Skipp or PEH get injured.
Conte isnt going to give young players a chance unless he has to. Conte only trusts ready made players cos it's less coaching. Sarr won't get anymore starts unless Skipp or PEH get injured.
I think it’s more - top 4 is the bare minimum expectation. Without it - we will go backwards as we wouldn’t have the finances to compete.Maybe he's just toeing the company line. Top 4 is like a title win for our club because that is seemingly the objective set for our managers.
Qualifying once in the past three years isn't "consistently over the past few seasons" at all.Not sure how I feel about this narrative from AC. We have been in CL consistently over the past few seasons and we’re hardly coming from Mid table obscurity. Of course realism is important but I do think we are better than he seems to think gives us credit for.
Literally only just seen the story from Trossard's agent about how we dallied and delayed on the deal which allowed Arsenal to steal in. Typical! Same happened with Grealish years ago when villa were skint and we had a chance to wrap up a deal before the rich owner came in and bailed them out. Important context for why Conte would be feeling extremely frustrated as Trossard was there for the taking so can certainly understand that perspective but still no reason to completely overlook DanjumaI think he is the sort of manager that will cut off his nose to spite his own face. So if the club does not sign the exact player he wants in a certain position then he will make his point by leaving them to rot on the sidelines. It is clear we wanted Trossard in this window but once Arsenal's Mudryk move fell through and they switched targets, we were always going to miss out on Trossard given the season they are having and we then had to pivot to snatch Danjuma from Everton. Yes he may not have been first choice but sometimes that is how the cards fall and you just have to play the hand you are dealt which is apparently beyond him.
Could someone point out to him next time that the team finishing immediately behind us last year are doing a pretty good job at going from outside the Top-4 to leading the table?
Tired of this bullshit now……