HAHAHHAHA He is more like the kid who has plans with his friends to go to that theme park next week, and they have that one smelly friend in the group whose parents are unemployed and never has cash (See Dukie from the Wire, if you have seen it), and he is wondering how stig kid is going to be able to come along for the trip without money. Maybe stig kid will sneak in on the cheap, but he is wearing the same stiggy clothes from the last time he snuck in, so he might get clocked, also last time he ran from security and got away his trainers got wrecked so now he is in someone elses borrowed trainers, and they are too big for him and dont fit, so he cannot run nearly as fast..........
Choice of metaphor is irrelevant. The bottom line is he has absolutely no business making such patronising and derogatory remarks about us. Next time he is asked he should keep his slimy mouth shut instead of launching into a cringeworthy prepared speech on the subject. I had held him in very high esteem as a manager until now, but he has now confirmed for me that something about your club turns people into relentlessly annoying bellends.
Yeah he should have shut up to be honest. In fairness though, he was probably asked, then there is the language barrier. Might not have been intended as as harsh as it sounded. I will have to watch the actual interview, as printed quotes can often be misconstrued in their tone. Conte doesn't strike me as a vindictive type, like Jose, for example. Have to say though, he is kinda right. Expectations at clubs that have spent lots of money are bound to be higher. For example, if Spurs finish 5th, MP probably wouldnt be sacked, where as if Chelsea or City finished 5th, Conte and Pep most certainly would be,.
We never spend fortunes but have been 3rd and 2nd in the last 2 seasons. We are doing something right?
Conte's a three year old child. When he's happy and winning he loves everybody. If he loses then the whole world is against him and he sulks. No wonder his wife's stopped in Italy. She's probably glad of the break. We wouldn't sell him Walker and he's got no chance of landing Kane, so he lashes out. Ten minutes on the naughty step wouldn't go amiss. "Claudio, if you can't play nicely you'll have to go to bed."
You have a great team, built for a cheap price too. However, its unsustainable. Brass tacks is you have won nothing, and your wage structure is not competitive with the teams around you in the league. Yes you can balance the books with the best of them, and perform very well, but unless you start bringing home the pots and increasing your turnover big time, then inevitably you will lose your best players eventually.
Hence the new stadium. The hard work extending our profile in the US. All about increasing our revenue.
So far this season we've doubled our shirt sponsorship and kit manufacturing deals. That's an extra £30m. Chuck in the additional revenue from qualifying for the CL, not the EL, that we won't have budgeted on, say, £30m and we're £60m up from last year. Add in the additional gate receipts from Wembley and we're probably looking at £80m - £100m of additional income on where we were 2 years ago. The clincher is the stadium naming rights deal and getting a permanent NFL franchise at the new stadium. If we get those things right and our plans for other events like concerts and ESports pan out, then in one mighty leap we've solved the income issue. If those things don't come in then things may be a little more difficult. Nothing ventured.........To Dare is To Do.
Conte's comments are a piss poor immitation of SAF's mind games and a piss poor attempt to tap up Kane.
I question the ambitions of someone who tells the previous season's top scorer they can leave via text message...
If [Spurs] don't win the title, it's not a tragedy," said Conte. "Maybe for Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and - I don't know - Liverpool, it is a tragedy." So Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea have had five tragedies in the last seven seasons, Arsenal are up to 13 tragic seasons in a row and Liverpool are on 27! Tragic
Theoretically they shouldn't. I wouldn't if i was a youth prospect. I think we are seeing mixed results though. Some top talent has left, Ake, Chalobah and Solanke who'd prefer to settle down. Then there are others who obviously want to get paid but are still "developing" by going on loan. Zouma, Kalas, RLC, Abrahams who have all signed new long contracts and then gone on loan.
The BBC text was not clear enough on this. Therefore I propose a Conte 2017-18 'tragedy' bingo game. The card rows are the names of PL clubs, and the columns are : 1. Fail to win the PL 2. Fail to qualify for the CL 3. Fail to qualify for the CL KO stage 4. Exit the EL at the first KO stage Then you put (for each club) in each column, a "NT/T" to indicate a (non) tragedy as appropriate. At the end of the season, the follicled one shows us his card, and the one of us who gets closest to his is the winner.
