General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

Conte wins titles with clubs that always win titles. Look at his record in the CL knockout stages. Routinely fails to get his teams out of the group stages and then when they do they almost always get knocked out in the last 16. Only once has he made the QFs. He’s a serial winner when he has the biggest and richest team in the league. When he doesn’t, he’s not a winner. Could he do what Klopp did? No, I don’t think so.

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I would absolutely agree with everything you’ve just said there, if it weren’t for the fact that if Conte hadn’t already lost the dressing room, I can’t see how he’d still have it now. Which is probably bigger than tactical stuff for the most part.

Conte isn't wrong in much of what he said, but in truth he himself is part of the problem. He's a coach with serious limitations, has won league Titles with Juve and Chelsea alright, but they both had big finances behind him, and his record in Europe is truly shocking.

He's looking for a payoff it does seem, if he had any integrity he'd resign and tell Levy to stick it, but he's being pretty classless hanging about for the payoff. It's not like he's short of a Bob or two, and he's been 'on the sick' recently too. He's not coming out of this looking well if you ask me.

Arsenal with 2 lovely goals now, such a comfortable game for them.

Palace are a wreck

Yeah I probably should've clarified it was the 2nd and 3rd goals were lovely.

Palace were absolutely atrocious!

Just saw the conte rant, mate your the manager its up to you to change the mentality through winning games. Liverpool hadn't won the league is 30 years, an absolutely huge burden on any previous Liverpool manager and Klopp managed it. Conte just comes across to me entitled and not in the sore loser type. His language was he was more worried about his own reputation.

Sounds like Conte will get his wish and will get a pay off by means of sacking.

He clearly is affected by the passing of a few of his friends in the last year or so. He needs to take a break from football really.

His repeated cycles might need to be reassessed too possibly. It's not a coincidence anymore.

Klopp was allowed to sign the most expensive goalkeeper and defender in world football, a Ligue 1-winning midfielder that had reached the last 4 of the Champions League, and a wide attacker with nearly 30 goals in Serie A over two seasons among others. Has Conte been allowed anything close to that? I suspect if Klopp was told to win a league with the likes of Enrique, Allen, Benteke etc. he wouldn't have managed it.

Conte finished in the top 4 last season which was a big achievement with that squad and yet it doesn't seem like they backed him sufficiently following that. He can't improve the side if he has to work with the same old dross.

Anyone who thinks Spurs are going to give the manager more resources than they are already putting in just should not take the job.

If Spurs try to tell a manager any different he is an idiot to believe them.