What is premature? Praising the coach for getting the absolute maximum in terms of results SO FAR? Nobody is celebrating a tripletta.
Just close the club if we can't enjoy being top of the table for now, again, if we are just extrapolating from the past couple of seasons we should stop playing altogether.
We didn't spend 300M, lol. About excitement - at this point I doubt you can ever get excited, especially considering you are making all the reasons not to get excited yourself. Anyway, I can respect some healthy pessimism.
Nothing "easy" about a group that contains Barcelona, Borussia and a Slavia Prague that honestly speaking could cause a lot of trouble to most of the top European teams, playing out of their minds. So far, they haven't lost any away games in THAT group. Let that sink in. At the Camp Nou and Signal Iduna Park.
At home we lost to Juve, doh and drew to Parma. We won ALL of our away games, so yeah, we do "kill it". So far. As browha said, if we win all our remaining games we'd be champions, guess that's what you're imagining as a decent season from Conte at his first season here.
Stop playing FM dude...
SMS for 80M+ is even a bigger gamble than Lukaku for 65M+
At least one has played in different leagues and clubs and he's statistically performing and providing on a regular basis, whether you like the way he's doing it or not. SMS... he might be a Kessie, he might turn out great, who the fuck knows? Now you're pitting hypotheticals against the real fucking thing - a player doing what he was brought for. What if SMS flopped? Nevermind, I don't want to be a part of such discussions.
Bellotti, well he isn't nearly as physical as Lukaku so if Conte wanted a physical striker it's pretty obvious what the right choice is. Lazzari... man, the dude with one assist in 9 games? By the way, Lazaro is three years younger.
Overall some wet FM fantasies.
Icardi scoring PKs and tap-ins, he's the greatest striker we ever had. Lukaku doing the same while also ENABLING Lautaro to also shine - he's an overpriced piece of shit. Biased as fuck.
Don't quite remember a trivela assist or Adrianoesque goals from D'Ambrosio. Also, not a 80M striker, but you're allergic to facts anyway. 180M striker, 580358M striker, whatever.
Shocking. Our two young Italian midfielders we've been chasing the whole summer have "overperformed". Nothing to do with Marotta's work on spotting the talent Italy currently has and relying on it. Sensi is "overperforming" and Barella is "developing" into a leader, let's forget he was Cagliari's captain, the youngest captain in the club's history at only 20...
Again, a loss to the perennial champions and a draw... what do you want? A perfect 42 pts season so far? Cause we aren't that far from your twisted fantasy even with 37 pts.
I'm also catching myself obsessing over the goal-difference more and more lately, good teams can attack and defend and flukey teams are easily spotted by the GD - ours is the 2nd best in Serie A with +18. Juve are at +13.
We might, that's true.
Yeah, those are the "champion" wins. We are missing half our starting squad, grinding results at this point is an overperformance in itself.
Mancini did it, Spaletti did it, Pioli had a decent run... Yeah, all flukes, all short-lived. The main difference for me is what the players say and how they trust the coach this time for real I hope. You see how the whole bench explodes when we score. It's touching really and this is how you win - by being a good TEAM more than a collection of individuals. Of course an Icardi fanboy will never get it.