Antonio Conte

[ADRossi]

well, I dont really want Mancini back, I think his typical strategy isnt what this club need right now, and I dont think many inter fans would be too keen to have him back.

If our financial stuff resolves itself the right way, Conte should get an extension.

Remember, if he takes the Italy job, he's likely to take a pay cut (Mancini makes like 3 mil a year net) - and changing jobs within Italy means losing the benefit of the growth decree I believe, whereas potentially staying at Inter doesnt.

No one is advocating for Mancini coming back. He's a step backwards from Conte in every way. I was just suggesting that Mancini will likely leave Italy after the 2022 World Cup, creating one of the few openings Conte would leave Inter for.

Don't forget that last time Conte managed Italy they had Puma step in and pay the difference between the NT salary and Conte's Juventus salary.

 

[.h.]

aye, but even then, it was barely over a third of what we makes now tbh
https://www.football-italia.net/54322/puma-help-contes-italy-contract

I cant see him taking that big of a pay cut.

In terms of global managers:
Pep (23m/yr), Mourinho (lol, 17.5m/yr), Simeone 15m/yr, Benitez 13.5m/yr, Cannavaro 12m/yr (wtf), Zidane (12m/yr), Conte 11m/yr, Klopp 10.5m/yr, Ancelotti 8m/yr, Flick 8m/yr.

Not many clubs are going to/can afford him.

10m at Inter is probably better than 10m at aTottenham, given the state of the team, I dont think Real will take him, I highly highly doubt he's going to China. Maybe Athletico is plausible though conceptually if not availability?

 

[Bluenine]

No one is advocating for Mancini coming back. He's a step backwards from Conte in every way. I was just suggesting that Mancini will likely leave Italy after the 2022 World Cup, creating one of the few openings Conte would leave Inter for.

The World Cup next year is in the winter, while Conte's contract runs out in the summer. I don't see Conte waiting 6 months for a lower salary NT job that he has already done before.

1 year is a long time in football. If Conte wins the 2nd star for Inter next summer, there will be suitors for him. Some of the coaches at the big clubs (PSG, Chelsea, Man Utd, etc) may not last till 2022.

I think the most likely scenario is Suning getting the funding they seek and then extending Conte's contract this summer as a reward for #Inter19. Its not what I would do, but I can see it happening.

 

[vitomins]

I don't see why anyone with UCL ambitions would hire Conte. The track record speaks for itself.

Right...they should hire Rafa if they want to win Champions League.

 

[K.I.]

Right...they should hire Rafa if they want to win Champions League.

Rafa has won a lot during his carer

 

[Harpsabu]

https://twitter.com/FNerazzurra1908/status/1389669429231771648?s=19

Found my new avatar

 

[IM21]

Romano - Antonio Conte to Le Iene: "I'll be staying o leaving Inter? Now we enjoy the celebrations, then we'll meet and decide. We will choose the best destiny for Inter. Mourinho returning to Italy is a great news: everything has been clarified, there's only respect between me and José".


Its pretty simple. If he will get the players he will demand, he will stay. If inter try and go sell their best players, he will leave. It up to Suning.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Where will he leave? Leaves that 13m€ salary on the table?

 

[Il Drago]

Where will he leave? Leaves that 13m€ salary on the table?

Unless Suning turn Inter into a supermarket or there's an unexpected opening in EPL (e.g. Man Utd) Conte is staying at Inter. Even if we assume there's a club that is looking for a coach and is willing to offer Conte as much as he earns at Inter the only one i can think of is Tottenham. But why would Conte go to Tottenham? It would make no sense. No top coach in his right mind would go there.

I still think Conte is just trying to put pressure on Suning about the transfer market and a new contract.

 

[brehme1989]

He can try and get himself sacked and enjoy a worry free paycheck as reigning champion anyway.

Will depend on how the competition fares out, as well as his own ambitions. Don't think he wants to leave now, but he knows it's better to quit while ahead.

 

[NimAraya]

Unless Suning turn Inter into a supermarket or there's an unexpected opening in EPL (e.g. Man Utd) Conte is staying at Inter. Even if we assume there's a club that is looking for a coach and is willing to offer Conte as much as he earns at Inter the only one i can think of is Tottenham. But why would Conte go to Tottenham? It would make no sense. No top coach in his right mind would go there.

I still think Conte is just trying to put pressure on Suning about the transfer market and a new contract.

Yes Tottenham is a possible candidate, and maybe another English club.

Suning should not extend his contract unless they put a clause in it about terminating the contract if he fails in the CL again. And if selling Lukaku is gonna make him to leave then so be it.

 

[Il Drago]

He can try and get himself sacked and enjoy a worry free paycheck as reigning champion anyway.

Will depend on how the competition fares out, as well as his own ambitions. Don't think he wants to leave now, but he knows it's better to quit while ahead.

Suning didn't fire Conte last summer when he was practically begging for it and they certainly aren't going to do it now after winning Scudetto. If Conte wants to leave, he would either have to resign (extremely unlikely) or agree on mutual termination at a much lower cost. I can't see him leaving money on the table unless he already has an agreement with another club that would cover the loss.

 

[CafeCordoba]

I still think Conte is just trying to put pressure on Suning about the transfer market and a new contract.

This is my bet too why he said what he said. He wants to stay for longer term but wants guaranteed environment ie. wants the club to back him up with his winning ambitions.

 

[brehme1989]

Suning didn't fire Conte last summer when he was practically begging for it and they certainly aren't going to do it now after winning Scudetto. If Conte wants to leave, he would either have to resign (extremely unlikely) or agree on mutual termination at a much lower cost. I can't see him leaving money on the table unless he already has an agreement with another club that would cover the loss.

Suning didn't do anything last season anyway, but the circumstances are different.

Conte had 2 years left, something like 30m gross + Spalletti's 9m gross. So you'd be paying 40m to managers that aren't on the team and had to find a competent manager that wouldn't bankrupt you.
Now he has 1 year left. It costs much less to sack him now.

Inter is more appealing now to new coaches: Serie A champions, Pot 1 in CL. Meaning that it will be easier to find a candidate who will not demand an extravagant amount.

New coach will not be attached to any players. We all know that Conte has a soft spot for Lukaku, perhaps a few others on the team that are less obvious such as Hakimi, Barella, Bastoni, De Vrij etc. New coach will be okay with sacrificing a player to free up funds.


Antonio Conte's ceiling is to compete for the Scudetto and he's a coach who thrives only when he plays in one competition. If the ambition is to challenge for Europe and be one of them big boys, there are coaches available that have shown they can challenge in Europe and/or also compete in a domestic league at the same time. There are more coach options today than there were last season.

Of course I'm not saying he's leaving, but the situation is completely different.

At the same time, you have the issue where Suning will not look good if they sack him. First coach to win something with them and first coach to win something since the 2011 Coppa and you sack him? Not looking great, even if everyone knows that Conte is a very difficult character.

You may alienate Marotta who will feel undermined in such a scenario.

Then you have the sporting aspect where you have a team that won the league, in a bizarre season nonetheless, but still this team won and rallied with the coach after the biggest failure in Inter's CL history since Lippi's Helsinborg disaster, playing a system that is not really drilled by many top coaches, so you have the risk that the team may not perform as well with another coach and another system, losing the chance to defend the Scudetto in the process.

And of course, the economic one, it's still expensive to sack Conte and we are in a situation where we are counting our eggs and we don't know how they'll hatch.

I agree that there's no way he's leaving. Not even if he can find another job. But do we see Conte long term here? He'll whine for an extension, then what? We'll end up paying him much more. That's for the club strategists to decide, not me.

 

[CafeCordoba]

My suggestion for Suning is to get the finances work SOMEHOW and start a cycle with Conte. He has himself talked about longer term stuff for few months now in few occasions, he has the motivation for it. He has the management's backing for his work. Marotta+Oriali+Conte trio works well, at least for this season. Conte talked how the project ended last autumn, so they should start a new one now. Repeated Scudetti and success in Europe is the target. Of course financial aspects limit that but with slow progress, that's totally doable.

Constant coach changing does no good and now we have a coach who brought some serious mentality to this group and the group loves him.

 

[Bluenine]

 

[William]

Hoping Handa wasn’t in the middle waiting to catch conte...

:trollol:

 

[kurt0411]

Unfortunately late to the party, quite literally, because some of the mods running this place are power hungry clueless bums but to all the people that wanted him sacked in December: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

Also welcome to LGI Don Antonio

 

[Candreva Crosses]

My suggestion for Suning is to get the finances work SOMEHOW and start a cycle with Conte. He has himself talked about longer term stuff for few months now in few occasions, he has the motivation for it. He has the management's backing for his work. Marotta+Oriali+Conte trio works well, at least for this season. Conte talked how the project ended last autumn, so they should start a new one now. Repeated Scudetti and success in Europe is the target. Of course financial aspects limit that but with slow progress, that's totally doable.

Constant coach changing does no good and now we have a coach who brought some serious mentality to this group and the group loves him.

I don't really like him, his tactics or the way he can act sometimes but for sure when your employe has that motivation and is loved by the players with the combination of Oriali and Marotta then I wouldn't mind giving him another season. But I still think there should be high expectations for him to reach because of that fucking salary.

 

[cuba gooding]

I guess its just a general rule that you cannot let a coach to run the team with only one year contract remaining. So it is necessity to renew his contract given next season is his last year. Whether or not we agree on this is a different story.

I just think after all those misery years and the facts that we were always paying two coaches in one period because we keep changing coaches, we now need stability and Conte might be the perfect coach for us to finally get that stabillity. I read Juve spend 40 mio on coaches alone because they changed coach every year in the last three years.

He is also done well on developing young players, such as Bastoni. For sure developing half talent like Barella or Martinez are also not easy tasks.