Antonio Conte

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

at least he's accepting some blame-- haven't seen that much this season.
he's going to get another season no matter what. hopefully his swollen pride will be enough to light a fire up this teams ass next season.

 

[Il Drago]

Inter Coach Antonio Conte: “I’m Angry With Myself, I’m The Coach & I’m Responsible”

Inter coach Antonio Conte spoke to gathered reporters at a press conference earlier today, after the Nerazzurri’s disappointing 2-1 loss to Bologna at the San Siro. His words were noted by Italian media outlet FcInter1908.

“The disappointment is enormous. It’s a lot. At least as far as I’m concerned. And I also hope that the disappointment I have, the players also have 1% of it. We managed to lose a game we should have won.”

The Lecce born coach discussed whether he was angry at the squad after such a disappointing result.

“I’m angry with myself. I’m the coach and I’m responsible for what happens on the pitch. I have my responsibilities because I direct the situation one way or another. It’s right to be angry with myself and the players with themselves.”

The former Juventus boss also discussed whether the team are emotionally fragile.

“Situations can only be assessed by facing them. It’s my first year working with Inter I had to take a pre-packaged package, so many situations that there were and that we are working on. It’s only fair to put all the topics into it.”

Conte touched on why he joined Inter and how important it is to win.

“I was called here for a winning project, to bring Inter back to win. There are some situations that leave a lot of bitterness because you think you are in a stadium and instead you find yourself in a much smaller stadium.”

The former Chelsea coach highlighted what mindset is needed by the squad to win these types of games.

“We have to feel like we’re being questioned. From here to there we have to prove that we deserve Inter. Me and the players. Everyone has to show that they want to rise above these years, otherwise it’s right to make other decisions later on.”

The 50-year-old Italian didn’t think that he made his substitutions too late into the game.

“It was a game in complete control. It wasn’t a game to be unbalanced. The moment Sanchez was coming in, Bologna tied. The game was dominated. I don’t understand why I’d have to make any upsets. We were able to lose.”

Finally, Conte touched on whether there was a penalty or not.

“I prefer to gloss over this situation. We could have done better in that episode too.”

Inter’s loss against Bologna means that they are now 11 points behind rivals and league leaders Juventus, who are the favourites for the league title considering Lazio’s 3-0 loss to Milan yesterday.

 

[magnesium]

Dude, Conte makes 11m€ a net per season. He had a massive summer mercato, got Christian Eriksen in January. I'm simply expecting better than what we're seeing. No excuses.

As much i like Eriksen, he can't start at 3-5-2 formation in mid season. Conte tactics required good defense, and Eriksen doesn't have that.
Eriksen is very good in formation 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 ala Real Madrid, City, or Barcelona. Even Sturaro better than Eriksen in 3-5-2 in terms defense.
Vidal more compactible with this formation cause he have good workrate.
Brozovic - Vidal - Barella is perfect i think than sacrifice defense with Eriksen. In result we concedeed many goals .
If Conte want play Eriksen, he need worldclass DM like Kante or Casemiro. That's why in mid season Conte ask Valverde.

 

[.h.]

I understand this thought but I don't honestly like it. We need to expect better by now.

Our defence is in shambles. Our defensive team play is not working. We concede chances every match like there's no tomorrow. We leak goals almost every match (yeah, clean sheets against Genoa and Brescia). Spalletti first season 30 goals conceded. Second season 33 goals conceded. We're now conceded 31 goals already, 8 matches to go.

This season should have been a layup for the next one, we built the base now. But only thing it looks is that it's built on sand. That's what worries me. Can we fix this within next season when we absolutely NEED to challenge Juventus for the Scudetto right until the end? Because this season we have basically started scoring better but completely destroyed our defence. It's a new system, but there's been like zero progress. One can understand that bringing in new system won't be easy, it's hard at the start but should be better in the end. But we've gone only worse. Specially defensively.

Going to next season doesn't sound convincing if we've conceded like 40+ goals last season. That's like 10 too much.

honestly, you could make similar arguments for the firs season under Mourinho tbh.

We scored 70 and conceded 32 under him - Mancini was 69 scored and 26 conceded. We gained 1 less point under Mourinho than Mancini.


Hell, even in Mourinho's second season, we conceded more goals (34) than his first (32)


I think this team is on the cusp of greatness.
* Clear out on bench options - Perisic, Nainggolan, Valero, Joao Mario, Gagliardini, Vecino, Godin, Ranocchia, Candreva, Asamoah, Biraghi need to leave. This will allow us to bring in some good depth, e.g. Tonali, Kumbulla, Hakimi, Gosens?, another CB and a new CM.



I dont recall every goal we've conceded, but checking transfermarkt, we conceded:

* vs Cagliari with Vecino, Dambro and Ranocchia on the pitch
* vs Sampdoria with Gagliardini on the pitch
* vs Juve with Godin and Vecino (roughly x2)
* vs Sassuolo x3 with Gagliardini, Politano and Lazaro x2
* vs Parma with Gagliardini and Godin x2
* vs Brescia with Gagliardini and Godin
* vs Bologna with Gagliardini and Lazaro
* vs Verona with Vecino and Lazaro
* vs SPAL with Vecino, D'ambrosio and Gagliardini
* vs Fiorentina with Godin, Vecino
* vs Napoli with Vecino, gagliardini
* vs Atalanta with Gagliardini, Valero in MF and Godin in CB
* vs Lecce with pretty much a full starting XI Tbh
* vs Cagliari with Godin and Valero
* vs Milan x2 with Vecino and Godin
* vs Lazio x2 with Godin and Vecino
* vs Sampdoria with Gagliardini
* vs Juve x2 with Vecino
* vs Sassuolo x3 with Gagliardini, Vecino and Ranocchia x1
* vs Parma with Gagliardini and Godin
* vs Bologna with Gagliardini



I'm not asserting the named players are responsible for all those goals conceded - clearly not - but our starting XI has basically conceded one goal all season (mostly, probably, because Sensi's lack of availability, to be clear).


We are tweaks away from being a damn good team. We need to get rid of the hit and miss players like Gagliardini, Vecino, Valero, etc, and we could well go a long way to greatness. I dont think it'll solve everything, but itll make a difeference


This is where I'm hoping Tonali and potentially Nainggolan as our rotation MCs alongside Sensi or Barella will be really interesting for us - no one is going to assert those guys lack quality. Two good CBs, a LWB, and another striker/keeping Sanchez we're pretty golden.


During the treble, we had class depth - Cordoba, Materazzi, Stankovic, Balotelli, prime Santon - whilst those guys were often limited by age and so on they were class for first off the bench. We seriously lack that right now. Muntari and Mariga, really, were the only real liabilities coming off the bench, and I dont expect Mariga to fuck up like Gagliardini has done lately, only really Muntari.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Whatever, not interested in that discussion regarding these names. Starting eleven or not, we should play better as a team. They've trained together all season long. If there's deficiencies with some players, we should play accordingly.

About Conte's comments, this was the interesting part:

“We have to feel like we’re being questioned. From here to there we have to prove that we deserve Inter. Me and the players. Everyone has to show that they want to rise above these years, otherwise it’s right to make other decisions later on.”

Is that a threat of himself quitting (after next season I guess?) or a threat to some players that they're out of the door if things don't start to go better?

 

[.h.]

Whatever, not interested in that discussion regarding these names. Starting eleven or not, we should play better as a team. They've trained together all season long. If there's deficiencies with some players, we should play accordingly.

About Conte's comments, this was the interesting part:

“We have to feel like we’re being questioned. From here to there we have to prove that we deserve Inter. Me and the players. Everyone has to show that they want to rise above these years, otherwise it’s right to make other decisions later on.”

Is that a threat of himself quitting (after next season I guess?) or a threat to some players that they're out of the door if things don't start to go better?

I mean its hard to play around someones deficiencies when he's cost us 3 points now missing easy goals

I dont think its a quitting threat, he's throwing a warning to players publicly. I would read that as its a last chance to show you deserve to be here.


The point around the names is that our starting eleven is actually damn good, when not injured and on form. We've relied very heavily on our reserves this season - and that's whatts costing us atm. The reserves suck donkey balls.

It's like when Muntari got sent off in 90 seconds vs Catania. That's not a question of tactics, or set up, you've just got a fucking idiot on the pitch and you need to get rid of that fucking idiot ASAP.

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Whatever, not interested in that discussion regarding these names. Starting eleven or not, we should play better as a team. They've trained together all season long. If there's deficiencies with some players, we should play accordingly.

About Conte's comments, this was the interesting part:

“We have to feel like we’re being questioned. From here to there we have to prove that we deserve Inter. Me and the players. Everyone has to show that they want to rise above these years, otherwise it’s right to make other decisions later on.”

Is that a threat of himself quitting (after next season I guess?) or a threat to some players that they're out of the door if things don't start to go better?

I wouldn't put it past Conte quitting next season, but I think in this case he's trying to take some responsibility. He's performed below expectations this season. Surely his reputation would take a hit if he has another under-performing season with us.

 

[magnesium]

Whatever, not interested in that discussion regarding these names. Starting eleven or not, we should play better as a team. They've trained together all season long. If there's deficiencies with some players, we should play accordingly.

About Conte's comments, this was the interesting part:

“We have to feel like we’re being questioned. From here to there we have to prove that we deserve Inter. Me and the players. Everyone has to show that they want to rise above these years, otherwise it’s right to make other decisions later on.”

Is that a threat of himself quitting (after next season I guess?) or a threat to some players that they're out of the door if things don't start to go better?

We play better than last year.. i admit this.. Conte already take the team to right direction.
We almost win against all small teams, ALMOST WIN IF NOT BECAUSE BRAINFART SOME PLAYERS. At last we leading.

The problem sometimes you can't insert your ideas to your player. Even Rubentus with Ronaldo can't win against Lyon or Napoli.
They lucky we play every 3 days, so Lazio and Inter can't maximize form because limited rooster.
In analogy we are Real Madrid to over take Barcelona throne. or maybe Dortmund want overtake Munchen.
We need exceptional team of course. Gagliardini, Borja, or Vecino are belong to midtable club. They never take part in any exceptional team like Madrid or Barca.
We need talented player like Bastoni, Lautaro, or Barella. Plus Hakimi.. so we can overtake them in two or three years.
Marotta is smart guy. He take all Italian player who can start at NT in next 5 years. I am sure next season we easy take 2nd place.at last

Marotta playing 3d chess with Paratici. I am sure 100% in the end Marotta will win . :challenge:

Paratici buy overrated players, Marotta buy exceptional talented player. And he get that with fucking minimum price.

 

[InterFCAustin]

Slice it whichever way you want it, I blame conte for
todays loss.
With that being said, no, we don’t need to fire him or even remotely suggest that he should be fired.
But ask me next year, around January February March, and shit like this still happens(Sassuolo and Bologna at home) then yes, straight up fire him, on the spot right after the game.

 

[M.Adnan]

My biggest criticism for Conte this season is horrendously leaking goals. That second Bologna goal man.. amateur stuff.

We played like shit with Mancini and Spalletti, but we had a tough defense. Conte? not even close.

 

[zodd]

There is no use in watching Inter as long as Conte is the coach.

Despite I consider Conte a top coach, after games like this I just can't wait to have Diego to be around.

 

[Luka]

Conte is safe for at least next 2 years. 100%. You can quote me on that (brakbrak, wink wink).

You guys are mental. You can blame Conte on other games, but this one should not be even in top 10 of those games. 9 other games like this against Bologna and we would have won. It's just probability. Bologna were lucky our players couldn't score for shit today, or their keeper had a great game, take your pick. Until around 60 minutes, besides that God shot from barrows out of the blue they had nothing in this game.

I think most people are really frustrated at the result, rather than the coach. But since Conte is a coach of the team, he gets blamed first (understandable). But lets keep it in proportion.

Conte is not a looser (like Spal). He is a winner and he will give 120% more after this second half of the season that disappointed us all.

 

[brakbrak]

Conte is safe for at least next 2 years. 100%. You can quote me on that (brakbrak, wink wink).

You guys are mental. You can blame Conte on other games, but this one should not be even in top 10 of those games. 9 other games like this against Bologna and we would have won. It's just probability. Bologna were lucky our players couldn't score for shit today, or their keeper had a great game, take your pick. Until around 60 minutes, besides that God shot from barrows out of the blue they had nothing in this game.

I think most people are really frustrated at the result, rather than the coach. But since Conte is a coach of the team, he gets blamed first (understandable). But lets keep it in proportion.

Conte is not a looser (like Spal). He is a winner and he will give 120% more after this second half of the season that disappointed us all.

Hahahaha ya I agree with you theres no way we are firing him.

 

[brehme1989]

I think it's the players mentality from the banter era still lerking around. If I was cnte I would another overhaul the next season to get rid of it for once and all. The good that we witnessed this season is sign of how our team will look like without this stinky mentality.
I strongly believe conte moratta and Co will work on this for next season starting by removing shitt players.
The management is in the right direction by signing erikson and hakimi

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Which players are these exactly?

Handanovic? Possibly our best player.
Ranocchia? Zero influence.
D'Ambrosio? He's usually one of the players with most effort and he has more positive than negative impact.
Brozovic? Arguable. Didn't seem "toxic" after Spalletti turned him around and that momentum even helped him help Croatia to a World Cup final.

You do realize that most of the team has come after 2017, right?

Handanovic: 2012
Padelli: 2017
Berni: 2014
Ranocchia: 2010
Skriniar: 2017
De Vrij: 2018
Godin: 2019
Bastoni: ~2019
Biraghi: 2019 (never was a part of the team prior to this)
Young: 2020
Moses: 2020
Asamoah: 2018
Gagliardini: 2017
Vecino: 2017
Sensi: 2019
Barella: 2019
Valero: 2017
Eriksen: 2020
Candreva: 2016
Brozovic: 2016
Sanchez: 2019
Lukaku: 2019
Martinez: 2018
Esposito: ~2019

Essentially the vast majority of the team has been at Inter as a member of a team that qualified for the Champions League or joined a Champions League team. What "overhaul" and Banter Mentality are you even talking about?

 

[varmin]

All weak mentality and old washed up players should leave. That list includes Gagliardini, Rano, Brozovic, Candreva, Biraghi, DD, Godin, Valero, Vecino. Most probably I missed someone. I know it can not be done over one transfer merkato but if this summer we are able to get rid of Gagliardini, Godin, Valero, Vecino, and Biraghi will be a good start. And I'm repeating myself if somebody wants to buy Brozo for 60+mln, do it.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Conte is safe for at least next 2 years. 100%. You can quote me on that (brakbrak, wink wink).

You guys are mental. You can blame Conte on other games, but this one should not be even in top 10 of those games. 9 other games like this against Bologna and we would have won. It's just probability. Bologna were lucky our players couldn't score for shit today, or their keeper had a great game, take your pick. Until around 60 minutes, besides that God shot from barrows out of the blue they had nothing in this game.

I think most people are really frustrated at the result, rather than the coach. But since Conte is a coach of the team, he gets blamed first (understandable). But lets keep it in proportion.

Conte is not a looser (like Spal). He is a winner and he will give 120% more after this second half of the season that disappointed us all.

You are giving Conte way too much the benefit of the benefit of the doubt. He didn't react at all to that triple substitution Miha made after the missed penalty. That is what changed the game eventually. Bologna had chances and pressure and this guy did nothing. He said he had the Sanchez sub coming in but Bologna scored first. Well, that was 10mins after that triple sub by Miha. Miha took the opportunity when we failed penalty. Opponent is a bit down, let's go all in on them with some fresh legs. Conte should have reacted to that, maybe change Valero in for Gags in addition to that Eriksen Sanchez sub to bring some stability.

Yes odds are for us and we've probably won 9/10 but that's not how football is played. It's played on the pitch and more precisely, in the moment! You need to react when shit happens in the pitch and not wait for subs to the minutes you've planned to make them.

I haven't criticized Conte too much with his sub game generally, but IMO in this match it was crucial mistake.

 

[Il Drago]

Which players are these exactly?

Handanovic? Possibly our best player.
Ranocchia? Zero influence.
D'Ambrosio? He's usually one of the players with most effort and he has more positive than negative impact.
Brozovic? Arguable. Didn't seem "toxic" after Spalletti turned him around and that momentum even helped him help Croatia to a World Cup final.

You do realize that most of the team has come after 2017, right?

Handanovic: 2012
Padelli: 2017
Berni: 2014
Ranocchia: 2010
Skriniar: 2017
De Vrij: 2018
Godin: 2019
Bastoni: ~2019
Biraghi: 2019 (never was a part of the team prior to this)
Young: 2020
Moses: 2020
Asamoah: 2018
Gagliardini: 2017
Vecino: 2017
Sensi: 2019
Barella: 2019
Valero: 2017
Eriksen: 2020
Candreva: 2016
Brozovic: 2016
Sanchez: 2019
Lukaku: 2019
Martinez: 2018
Esposito: ~2019

Essentially the vast majority of the team has been at Inter as a member of a team that qualified for the Champions League or joined a Champions League team. What "overhaul" and Banter Mentality are you even talking about?

Brozovic joined Inter in January 2015, not in 2016.

 

[CafeCordoba]

The point is still pretty much spot on, one year for Brozovic doesn't change that. Our core is not from the banter era at all. Our core is from the Spalletti era or Conte era.

 

[Materazzi_23]

Subbing 5 and 3 min until final time is what amateur coaches do. The whole second half it was clear that Bologna took the game to us and we reacted by doing nothing. Bringing in Sanchez for Eriksen was always going to be a problem when your midfield is fucking up. Bad performance from everyone involved.

 

[Matawil]

Which players are these exactly?

Ranochia, brozovic, vecino, gagliardini, valero candreva

6 players including brozovic that's half of our midfield and candreva who has been playing all season long


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