Both were two yellows not straight reds. The one against City was down to the ref buying into DH’s love child’s impersonation of Ashley Young .Tonight’s first was because he stood his ground and the opponent ran into him. Perhaps he should change his name to Fernandes
Poisonous atmosphere in North Stand for last 10 minutes. Will come back to this in a bit. Thought we were beyond poor in every department. Only Forster, Royal, Skipp and porro come out with credit. Romero was stupid, Kulusevski and son tried but were woeful and lacked confidence to take on players, I genuinely do not have words to describe Perisic tonight. Kane , tried but was ineffective. Lenglet was so slow distributing the ball and Davies was OK at best. Hoejberg was hit and miss. Genuinely do not see the point in Richarlison and Sanchez showed why he ain't a first teamer. Really sorry to say but I'd rather Conte go, put Mason in charge and spend the next 3 months sorting out a long term strategy and a manager that suits that strategy. Finally, for the first time in a long long time I found some of the atmosphere poisonous. Some fans around me complained about "koreans" being at games...same **** I used to hear about black fans back in the 80s. Constant moaning from others but keeping quiet through the chanting. And the booing during the game from a sizeable chunk of fans reached a peak when we subbed of Kulusevski...for a defender. Will be amazed if conte is the manager for the forest game tbh
Maybe not but 13/14 months is enough to get a shot or two on target. You don’t want to be here, we don’t want you here so just go
As moronic as his first yellow tbh...completely stupid tackle... the loss is down to our appalling tactics
I tend to agree. We are sleepwalking into making a potentially era-defining decision from a position of sheer desperation. We (i.e. ENIC) really have well and truly run out of rope. Newcastle will be a force to be reckoned with next season, Arsenal are resurgent, United are rebuilding, Chelsea are seemingly even more immune to FFP rules than they used to be, Liverpool look committed to stand by Klopp...we have spent the last 3 years running round in circles and the grace period is over. We have run out of time and are now at a crossroads. If we take the wrong turn (again), I fear we face mid-table mediocrity for the foreseeable future. Appointing a manager out of sheer sentiment is not a wise decision, but I can understand and sympathise with the fans. Levy has snookered himself good and proper and the fans are rightly very, very afraid of what the future holds, so they are defaulting to what they know. I've said it a few weeks ago and will say it again. Sack Conte, appoint Mason until the end of the season and see how De Zerbi finishes the season with Brighton. If they qualify for Europe and win the FA Cup, we should move heaven and earth to appoint him. Give him a five year contract, a budget, and Levy can feck off to Monaco with Lewis for the next five years and just leave him alone to run a project.
Oh wow. Richarlison has apparently just done an interview with a Brazilian media outlet and has absolutely pummelled Conte. Might have just made up for the fact that he's done sweet fa on the pitch.
I know I've banged on about this a lot, but I think we all knew we were ****ed from the lineup. Perisic at LWB again, five at the back again and an unfit Kulusevski at RW again. Some poor individual performances, but it's the system and tactics, for me. Conte been gone for a while now, so it should just be made official. Put him on gardening leave or something and let him return to Italy. I'd try to keep the set-piece specialist, but that's about it. While I'm on the subject of set-pieces, why has Perisic stopped taking them? It's about the only thing he was consistently contributing from and now he's not on them. Bizarre choice.
He's not right to say it to the media, but what he's saying isn't wrong. Two decent performances, clean sheets and wins, so we switch things up. Lose the next two games, so we stick with what isn't working. Very strange.
He mentioned something about his tiny dick, then he reminded everyone that Conte is still good at rubbing his balls.
Nicked from two people on r/coys: 1: tried to translate quickly. basically, he felt like was having a good sequence of games, two wins then he got benched again, against wolves didn’t play much, doesn’t understand why, asked around and no one gave him an answer. yesterday, they asked him to “do a test at the gym” (i think this is the right translation), if it went well he’d start, the when the time came he was benched. no one explained him anything, he’ll see what he says tomorrow. “there are no dummies here, i’m a professional, i work hard everyday and i want to play. not enough minutes, not enough time. this season has been ****. i don’t have the time (on the field), i’ve been struggling with injuries too, but when im on the pitch i give my all. i was coming off two good games, especially against chelsea where i played the 90 minutes and we won the match. that’s it, there’s not much to say. i think i should’ve started and now (we) can’t be crying” “in the next games to come, i have to score as many goals as i can, that’s why the club paid so much for me and so far i haven’t lived up (to the expectations due to the fee paid). injuries have gotten in the way a bit, not enough playing minutes, but now it’s time to go home, rest, tomorrow we have training early and let’s see if he has me starting next match” 2: "Yesterday they told me to do a test so I could start [vs Milan] and then today I was told I was going to be on the bench, I can't understand it...I just feel like I should've played but I don't want to cry about this anymore."
This cannot be a real quote. Surely. If he’s genuinely said this, there’s no coming back from it. I think PNP is right. He’s checked out mentally ages ago and doesn’t seem to give a ****, hence why he’s being very blasé in his post-match interviews. Doesn’t exactly help squad morale, though. The Athletic were reporting the other day that there’s no real appetite on both Levy or Conte’s side to extend his contract. If this is the case, may as well look to get rid of him now, put a caretaker in charge and start planning ahead for next season. The only reason why I can think Levy wouldn’t do this is Conte’s payout may be too expensive. Either that, or he’s still harbouring hope that you’ll finish in the top-4 (still very much possible, but looking far less likely given the circumstances right now).
