Honestly, anyone in the top 10 can beat us. Look at the table and the form.
If we finish Top 5 and get Champions League this will have been a great season after the shitshow last year and not seeming to have moved mountains in the transfer window (but hindsight says our transfer window was fantastic).
8 out of starting 11 (or 12 if counting Bentancur) was the team that Conte built. But a completely different team. Fantastic!
Otherwise agreed, but "8 out of starting 11 (or 12 if counting Bentancur was the team that Conte built" is far from reality.
Our current best starting XI is -
Vic; Porro, Romero, VDV, Udogie; Bissouma; Sarr; Maddison; Kulusevski, Son and either Richie or Johnson. But lets go for Richie for now.
Vic; VDV; Madders; Udogie - already FOUR were added now. Conte had fuck all to do with Udogie, as he arrived after Parmesan Pulis left and is widely considered Paratici recruit;
Sarr and Bissouma - brilliant midfielders that were absolutely canceled by Conte and lost year of their careers due to that absolute cunt;
Son, Romero - both here before Cunty got his hands on the club with Romero having been hinting that he would have left if that breath of fresh death would have continued to suck life and happyness out of anything around him.
Sooo... we are left with... Porro, Kulusevski and Richie for now. But I have a feeling that Richie will be behind Johnson soon if things continue. And Bentancur will be back, to add. So I think it is fair to say actual Contrebution was 3 out of 11. So actually exactly opposite of proposed 8/11.
With 1,5 years.
Ange has shaped this team so much more - with 5 months 4 of arrivals have taken center-stage already.
So team that was rebuilt by Ange and nearly demolished by Conte.
, obvious joke, had to be made)