But looks to me like you swung and missed on more than you hit. If this season doesn't go well, changes at the top @WornCleat
No major team other than Arsenal will keep a manager for more than three or four years in future. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern all swap and change with regularity. If we get two more good years out of Conte I will be happy. The days of the SAF style regime are long gone. Wenger is an exception and some may argue, a good example of why managers should not stay too long.
I am not disgruntled with our purchases. A decent number of good arrivals and some real upgrades among them. Even yesterday's last minute signing, Zappacosta, looks right for a Conte team. Conte had called him up for Italy in the past. A RWB, taller than Moses and the second best crosser of the ball in Serie A last season. Apparently he is also not prone to foul throws. So a better position at RWB than before.
Even and LWB, Kenedy unexpectedly stays. We have conver for the excellent Alonso.
Conte will have to use more players than last season but now he has a bigger pool to select from. Players like Fabregas will get more playing time.
The real question is whether the buys were Conte's or Emanelo's. The ones that have actually come rather than those that didn't strike me as more Conte people. Lukaku and others look more like Emanelo. This is a positive.
We may win nothing this year. I would hope that we will win something. It would be foolish to expect to win the league every year and from an ever more competitive PL, folly to think that one can now dominate the CL. Looking forward to an enjoyable season.
apologies didn't make myself clear, my changes at the top question was aimed more at the people above Conte, Emenalo, and the other director of football type people who sign off on transfers, or who have the ear of abramovich... If this season doesn't go well is there a reshuffle of them?
No major team other than Arsenal will keep a manager for more than three or four years in future. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern all swap and change with regularity. If we get two more good years out of Conte I will be happy. The days of the SAF style regime are long gone. Wenger is an exception and some may argue, a good example of why managers should not stay too long.
I am not disgruntled with our purchases. A decent number of good arrivals and some real upgrades among them. Even yesterday's last minute signing, Zappacosta, looks right for a Conte team. Conte had called him up for Italy in the past. A RWB, taller than Moses and the second best crosser of the ball in Serie A last season. Apparently he is also not prone to foul throws. So a better position at RWB than before.
Even and LWB, Kenedy unexpectedly stays. We have conver for the excellent Alonso.
Conte will have to use more players than last season but now he has a bigger pool to select from. Players like Fabregas will get more playing time.
The real question is whether the buys were Conte's or Emanelo's. The ones that have actually come rather than those that didn't strike me as more Conte people. Lukaku and others look more like Emanelo. This is a positive.
We may win nothing this year. I would hope that we will win something. It would be foolish to expect to win the league every year and from an ever more competitive PL, folly to think that one can now dominate the CL. Looking forward to an enjoyable season.