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Staying or not, it's time people show Antonio Conte the respect he deserves

The time was around April 2017. Chelsea hadn't even won the title yet when a sudden rumor, that looked silly at the time, popped up in one of the media outlets saying Antonio Conte is unhappy and wishes to leave back to his homeland. Naturally, us fans never paid attention to the rumors as we were too busy celebrating our 2nd title in 3 seasons.

Fast forwarding it to today, it looks more and more likely that Conte will leave our club for pastures new. But the constant speculation around his future and the negativity surrounding him and the club has made me think that people are not showing enough respect to the man that walked to the title in his first season in the toughest league in the world. Let alone others, there are even some among us, Chelsea fans, who need to show him the respect he deserves.

While the media were singing praises of how Guardiola's arrival will change English football forever, in came a little Italian in his black suit and funny laugh who revolutionized European football with his 3-4-3 formation. So much so that even the mighty Guardiola and Mourinho, who, by the way, had never played with 3 at the back in their trophy laden careers, had to change their system when they played against us. The man that made Gary Cahill (no disrespect to our captain) look like Alessandro Nesta, who turned David Luiz from a joker to a world class defender, who tamed the beast called Diego Costa, who turned the loan man Victor Moses into a guaranteed starter and former Bolton and Sunderland defender Marcos Alonso into a goal scoring freak of a wing back. It's no easy feat and I highly doubt the likes of Guardiola and Mourinho could produce the results with this personnel.

The speculation hasn't helped our team's mentality and the results. Conte is definitely not blameless either for some of our results and his constant whinging about our board (which may not be completely wrong, by the way). But, staying or not, it's time people give him the respect he deserves.

IT'S TIME WE SHOW HIM THE RESPECT HE DESERVES.

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