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raumdeuter:
From a Man Utd fan

Probably an inexperienced one. Did you watch the arsenal game? Ludogorets actually played well. Their passes were very decent, hell!! They actually had more posseion than arsenal!! But what was the final score? The coach rather than sit back and try to catch them on the break, his team tried to attack and used a high line and arsenal use counter finish their life.

That is tactical inflexibility!!
This is not the 1st, 2nd or 3rd time that fraudiola has been disgraced in Europe, why doesn't he learn??

nateevs:
So parking the bus means you won't get hammered 4-0.

Depends!!! It is one thing to have a game plan and another to execute it perfectly.
Against bigger teams, Mou plans to sit back, stiffle the opponents fluid attack and counter or captilize on the opponents error.
I simply don't know why you guys criticize that. It hardly happens for a mourinho's team to lose 3-0 or 4-0 but whenever fraudiola meets a superior team na to dey collect goals dey go .
Tactics inflexibility is what has cost Arsene wenger, trophies for many years and I bet you if fraudiola doesn't become tactically flexible when required, it will definitely cost him.

Nihilist:
See how City are playing. No striker yet they're attacking fluently. No DM yet Barca could only score a lucky goal.

Somebody will come and start calling balance.

Tactics!

Tactics is all...

I guess you were trying a subtle shade/dig but boy am I glad it backfired
Fernandinho played dm today, I don't know what you are saying.
As for your earlier statement about balance. Chelsea is very much imbalanced but I am glad conte has discovered a unique formation that tries to bring out the best of this squad.

Tent, vitamins, hunting rifle and first aid kit.

Arsenal and Chelsea are more than 99% full again, but Stoke top table

Arsenal and Chelsea have filled more than 99% of the capacity of their stadium for every Premier League home fixture this season (they have each played four), but for efficiency Stoke topped the weekly stadium capacity table with just 42 unfilled seats and a stadium capacity of 99.85%.

Eight Premier League teams filled their grounds to more than 90% of capacity, seven of the ten home fixtures being sold out.

Southampton and Middlesbrough, both playing Sunday, were the bottom two teams in the stadium capacity chart accounting for 3,649 and 6,611 unfilled seats respectively. These two clubs are at opposite ends of the country and quite often experience low away support at their grounds.

Middlesbrough hosted Watford for a Sunday lunchtime kick off – a 600 mile round trip for Watford fans. Saints kicked off a couple of hours later against Burnley – a 520 mile round trip Burnley fans who so far this season haven’t managed to fill their own ground yet.

Crystal Palace are now starting to see higher attendances as the team puts behind a poor start to the season. West Brom still have some work to do but are consistently over 90% of their stadium capacity.

Insideworldfootball figures are based on the official ground capacities and the reported attendances. They do not take account any stadium reductions for seat kills due to safety or media requirements.

http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2016/10/18/arsenal-chelsea-99-full-stoke-top-table/

Nihilstjnr:
Nateevs doesn't like Jose normally.

Of course ,I think Jose is a fantasic coach and actually knows how to attack....BUT...in this game against Liverpool, I saw a shocking lack of ambition. Rashford at right back tori olorun

Whew!! Who could have thought you would finally say that?
I guess my point is made.

Nihilstjnr:
Donjazet, you know the guy that wrote that Article absolving Jose of the blame after the game?

Read what he wrote before the game.

If you are implying that the writer was not objective or is sentimental towards mourinho, fine. But what about the 82% who voted that they were satisfied with the result considering the earlier laid down factors??

Danhumprey:
[b][size=14pt]my man, I get your point. But what I can glean from this your comment is a desperate desire for Mourinho to prove himself after the debacle of last season. We're all know Mourinho is a top class coach, but after last season, his reputation was badly rubbished. He needed to regain back his reputation. Even with a bruised reputation, he was highly sought after by clubs and he finally settled for to top club that has been for the past 3 seasons and desperately needed a revival. By all ramifications, that was a tough job, but he accepted it anyway. He has started well, that's never in doubt. What he needs is TIME..... .....and that is what you're too impatient to afford him, just like you seemed too impatient to afford Conte time.

When Man United faced Liverpool, no one can argue that Liverpool were/are the in-form team, in terms of play, performance and on-field success. Man United on the other hand, were the most expensively assembled of the two teams. I won't argue that money doesn't buy titles, but money DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY guarantee you titles.

We've all known Mourinho to be a defensive-minded coach, so his tactics against Liverpool and maybe Man City shouldn't be surprising. He set up his team not to lose. In some sense, what informed his tactics was more psychological. But that's by the way.

Give Mourinho and Conte time to build their teams and with time you will see they are not just defensive-minded in their tactics[/size][/b].

You couldn't have said it any better. Maybe I need to spam the thread and repost this post 20 times for people to get this point.!!!
Time is needed to see mourinho's work. It is too early!! to conclude.

Nihilstjnr:
And you chopped it....and so the fear of losing kicked in, and the result was this:

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4370874_img20161018wa0003_jpegf9561e29bfab213159f77cd06595d35d

200m in one summer to do this...against Liverpool of all teams?

Even Conte as much as I don't rate him showed a bit more ambition.

And was the end result??
Chelsea lost!! So why would mourinho after seeing this still attempt going all out attack.

nateevs:
It looks like this point gets completely overlooked. Can you prove to me beyond reasonable doubt that if united went out to attack Liverpool, they SURELY would have lost the game? Please oblige me.

Don't forget that as we have stated earlier Mata, Mhkitaryan, Rashford, Rooney, Ibra, Pogba will walk into the Liverpool side. Unless you are disagreeing with this also.

This is an excerpt from dailymails article .

Mourinho travelled west on Monday knowing that if his team stood toe to toe with a more confident, in-form Liverpool team then the chances are United would have lost 4-2. Sky would have loved that and so would the rest of us but the poll on the MEN website would have looked very different.The current United have deep and entrenched limitations, born of poor planning at the back end of the Ferguson era and three seasons of regression under David Moyes and Van Gaal. Mourinho will address these over time and if he can’t manage it then he, too, will be asked to make way.

Arsenal and Chelsea tried and failed, why would manu still attempt attacking them when they know that right now, they are not up to them in terms of intensity and cohesion

nateevs:
What does that even mean? Both managers knew they were taking over their respective sides at about the same time.
You say the poll says United fans are satisfied? Quote this post and keep. It's just a matter of time.

And to squash that last part once and for all. "Highest trophies and nothing to prove" only applies to the blinkered JM fans in tinted glasses. I will stand here and tell you any day, that at least half a billions Euros have been spent to achieve that and he's done so in circumstances of moderate tactical and financial competition.

For the first time in his career, he is right in the mix; competing against 5 other genuine league contenders who can also match his spending power. The league's gone from a top four to a proper top six. Who says he has nothing to prove? This is where it will become clear for everyone to see that his style of football will not stand the test of time.

Noticed how many times you used that word.?? Now we are on the same page!
That is what I have been saying since!! That is the baseline of this argument.
I am saying its too early to start judging him. It's not as if manu are so terrible right now. By December/january, the judgements can start falling out but it is still early to say mourinho is a failure at manu.

On a side note, I can't believe you would want to just wave his achievements with the flap of your hands and put it just down to the amount spent.
Many people would not want to state his net spend, apart from his first spell in Chelsea and last summer in manu, his modus operandi has been to sell some players and get quality players in return.
Zlatan for eto, militio
Higuain for dimaria,modric
Davidluiz, schurle, debruyne for Costa, fabregasn and Filipe Luis.
That's good transfer policy which brought the immediate successes.
And Moreso not many coaches who spend a lot of money utilise them well as mourinho has done.

Rodgers threw away about 90million on flops. Van goal spent close to 300million and couldn't achieve something tangible.

Nihilstjnr:
The same Liverpool squad that got Rodgers sacked is all of a sudden better than Manyoo?

Make una take am easy abeg.

Abi have you forgotten thwt this same liverpool finished lower on the table than a much weaker Man United for the last 2 consecutive seasons?

So the excuse that a Manyoo side shorn of LVG and streghtened with 200m of talent just this summer, is weaker than Liverpool is scam designed to absolve Jose of his sins.

I can accept that from donjazet- he is a self-confessed Mourinho fan who announced his intentions to follow his hero and decamp to Manyoo this summer.

I can also accept such from bigkesh also known as Mourinholic

But I nor know say you sef be card carrying member of the Jose fab club.

I may be mourinho's fan but that doesn't take away my objectivity, In this case, I argue with logic and facts. Klopp has made Liverpool a formidable opponent now, he has had a year to do that. And Moreso it's not as if Rodgers was abysmal, he almost won the title with Liverpool and made some good signings which Klopp harnesses now in addition to his own signings.

Many manu fans are not too disappointed because they know Liverpool are better gelled right now..

lalaboi:
Somethings i see and i just wonder.

Mourinho is a defensive minded/Counter Attacking kinda coach and you should not expect less. its like expecting a chicken to fly because it has wings. Even being defensive, he has managed to break goal scoring records and points records using the same tactics over the years. What is wrong with it? What is wrong with admitting that you are facing a better team at the moment away from home and decide to play for a point or a win - Punters will call that Double Chance

Its classic Mourinho game plan. He doesn't want to lose the game and that's his first priority and i don't blame him.

Anyone who doesn't believe Liverpool are a stronger side this season or at the moment cant look into the mirror and be truthful about their looks. . whether they are handsome or not

Some people here know very well that Transfer fee does not equate talent but they will talk with the other side of their mouth and say Mou spent millions and that's the best he could come up with.
He is even barely 6months into the Job and people want magic at united. A team that has underachieved since the departure of SAF.

Make una continue.

My brother, I tire oo!!
If these were not reasonable/ quite respectable people on this thread, I would have said they were just haters/trolls but it's quite shocking reading these from Chelsea fans. What he has done for us is immeasurable. He setup a team that lasted us for a decade. No matter how it ended, we should be very grateful to him not smearing/undermining him.

Nihilstjnr:
Oh so Liverpool players are better than Manyoo's now?

Wetin i no go read this morning?

Mourinho has sold you a dummy. You better wake up.

Rashford is arguably the hottest young striker in Europe but we saw him playing rightback. Ibra is still one of the best strikers in thr game but both humself and pogba were used as advanced defensive midfielders.

Somebody else will handle this team for you and turn them into something else.

8 of the players that started agaimst Manyoo were signed during Rodgers tenure, same Rodgers who would get fired for poor performance.

The difference is the mamager. Rodgers was playing Milner in central midfield, Klopp plays him at left back. Coutinho used to play 10 under rodgers, now he's at left wing. Firminho used to play left wing, now hes the main striker. Henderson used to be box to box, Klopp is having him play DM. Lallana used to play right wing, now he's in the middle. Sturridge thst Rodgers used to rely on has now been cut from the team.

Thsts the difference between thr liverpool that got rodgers sacked and the liverpool that is better than Manyoo.

Liverpool better than Manyoo. Dont make me laugh like Shao Kahn.

This tactics although misinterpreted by you was just in one used in one match and Moreso, don't you think 8 matches is too early to use as a yardstick in judging him??
I don't know why you are really impatient with managers. Klopp lost his first 3 out of 5 matches with Liverpool, nobody complained. Give Mou time and this team will become much better.

nateevs:
Are you admitting then that he spent money unwisely? Either way, there is a lot wrong with his approach and time doesn't solve those problems, as you are trying to make us believe.

How do you think Pep is faring under the same conditions?

Mancity were much more settled and balanced before pep came. What they lacked was just the consistency. Read the daily mail article above. A poll was carried out after the match for the fans to say how they felt and a whooping 82% felt satisfied.
Listen, I really don't know what you guys are really trying to Say. Mou is one of the best coaches in the world. For forks sake, he has the highest trophy count amongst all the coaches. He doesn't have anything to prove. His last league was won at almost a canter with an almost average team. That'has got to count, don't you think?

raumdeuter:
If that tactics was used by Hull City vs Man City and they got a result everyone would hail them because their resources are limited vs their opponents,

I believe I have tried to clarify you on this earlier. Liverpool is currently better than manu right now. How?? Read that article above or my earlier posts!.

You cant divorce spending from expectations you cant buy the most expensive player in the world and say its okay to play like Stoke
You cant buy the most expensive car in the world and say you are okay if it performs like a Tokunbo toyota pencil light

I have already said given time, the team will click, it is still early. And Moreso, price doesn't equate quality. Dangote can decide to buy arsenal for 8 billion dollars. That doesn't make arsenal The biggest/richest or most valuable club. There are very many reasons factored when making expenses.
Pogba wasn't bought at that amount because he is the world's best player but commercially, he has a lot of value, he is literally a cash cow, and at a very young age, he has the time to match that price on the field of play and Dont forget, he will still command a large resale price.

Why are people expecting Man City to win the league and were not expecting them to win in 2005? Because Man City has bought expensive players and now expectations are different.

It's good you made this point yourself!
Now, how many years did it take them after spending before they finally hit the jackpot?? Building that team took some time,. And you must know that for the past three seasons, bookies have always placed man city as title favourites. Manchester United have been very unstable for the past 3 seasons. You don't expect mourinho to wave a magic wand and fix things overnight.

Madrid has 1 league in 7yrs because they are facing possibly the best footclub team of all time at their peak. Take away Barcelona and Madrid will win the league 5 out of 7yrs
They have 2 CL in 3yrs. I will trade winning 7 leagues back to back for just 2 CL in 3yrs

I don't fully understand what you mean here but one thing is sure. Madrid have massively underachieved in the last decade. Before mourinho, they were almost like arsenal. Even Valencia performed far better than them.
It wouldn't even be too far-fetched to say their champions league wins were undeserved. (considering what athletico did thos two years)

Daily mail echoing my thoughts.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was not to blame for poor Anfield clash... hosts Liverpool were dreadful during the first half.

One of the abiding images of Manchester United’s last visit to Anfield before this week was of an irritated Sir Alex Ferguson chuntering feverishly in to the ear of chief executive Ed Woodward in the directors’ box. As Louis van Gaal’s hopeless team succumbed 2-0 in the Europa League last Spring, it was clear what Ferguson was saying.

Ferguson was at Anfield again on Monday and clearly in a better mood. He would not have been any more entertained than the rest of us by a very poor game but the former United manager was at least able to recognise a group of players functioning properly under the command of a proper modern coach.

Manchester United have improved under Mourinho. Admittedly, they were starting from a pretty low ebb but they have improved.

That is why they were able to leave Anfield with a point they deserved against a fancied Liverpool team and that is why, [size=12pt]in a poll run by the Manchester Evening News , 82 per cent of supporters said they were happy with what they had seen.

It is these supporters to whom Mourinho is obliged. To them and to the United board and not to the marketing men at Sky Sports who understandably ramped the hype around Monday’s game up to almost unprecedented levels.

Mourinho is a sports coach. His job is to move his team forward and he will do it in his own pragmatic way. This is the man the United board hired. In football, defending was once considered an art form too and on Merseyside the Portuguese showed that some coaches at least have not forgotten that.

Some say the way United played was an affront to the history of the club. They did not have a shot of note on target. That view is understandable but says more about the limitations of United’s squad than it does about the approach of their manager.

Mourinho travelled west on Monday knowing that if his team stood toe to toe with a more confident, in-form Liverpool team then the chances are United would have lost 4-2. Sky would have loved that and so would the rest of us but the poll on the MEN website would have looked very different.

The current United have deep and entrenched limitations, born of poor planning at the back end of the Ferguson era and three seasons of regression under David Moyes and Van Gaal. Mourinho will address these over time and if he can’t manage it then he, too, will be asked to make way.

United have their problems – such as Paul Pogba’s form – but to blame the visitors for this poor game is unfair and inaccurate. They were competitive.
There has been little criticism of Liverpool simply, it seems, because they finished the game strongly and brought two good saves from David de Gea. But it was all relative to how dreadful they had been during a first half that actually saw United begin as the more aggressive and assertive side.

Jurgen Klopp’s team were strong favourites but it was the Liverpool players who failed to carry out their coach’s plan. On the whole the failure was theirs and what was apparent once again with Liverpool – just as it was under Brendan Rodgers – was the absence of a Plan B – of another way of playing – when things aren’t going well.

On Radio Two they described the game as the worst football match of all time and played a highlights package that lasted 16 seconds and comprised commentary only of De Gea’s two saves.

It was all very amusing and captured the prevailing mood of disappointment very well. But when you think about it, we the viewers and listeners were victims of our own lack of perspective ahead of kick-off.

This is sport and as such it should never be taken for granted. Sometimes the unexpected happens. Equally, sometimes nothing happens.
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raumdeuter:
So if spending doesnt equal quality, SO was he just spending huge amount to waste money? He could have signed Chekou Kouyate for less

You know, I don't still get the basis of this argument. I was thinking you guys were simply trying to undermine his tactics yesterday or simply berate mourinho, now you're talking about his transfer policy.
Look at Madrid, they have been the highest spenders for the last decade but have just ONE league in that period.
However, History has it that mourinho spends a lot of money but also along with that, comes eventual success. Give him time, The results will come.

Nihilstjnr:
Mourinho said that his team played "perfectly" last night.

His quotes not mine.

You clearly think that the rubbish Manyoo played last night was due to a malfunctioning team because 'an already functioning team' as you put it should play better.

Jose is telling you that the crap that he served up was by design...and this is despite having almost half-a-billion pounds worth of talent on the pitch.

What else would you have him say? Of course sniffling out the opponents fluid attack was his game plan and it worked but that was because the opponents in this case were quite better than his.
As for your half-a-billion pound statement, I think that argument is stale as it has been proved countlessly that price doesn't equate quality in football.

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Please reply.

raumdeuter:
So the streghtening was getting a full preseason which Mourinho also had with Man Utd since he was apointed Manure coach by May. That means 3 full months of preseason just like Klopp got and Mourinho probably spent much more than Klopp in the market

Wijdanum didnt play yesterday. It was only Mane and Matip(a central defender) that were the difference outfield from last seasons team

Dayo!! Seriously I don't think we should be arguing about this! Klopp has spent 1 full year with Liverpool. A FULL YEAR!!! That is more than enough time to drill your tactics into your team and shape them in your image. Mourinho in his 16 years of football management has never gone 2years without a title in one club.

Talking about new signings, don't wave the acquisitions of mane and Mario with ur hands! These are quality players who have been able to gel quickly into an already functioning team. Same can't be said about manu's signings, pogba is yet to click into gear, Zlatan is very static and slow(despite his other good qualities).

I believe given time. They will find the working chemistry.

raumdeuter:
Mourinho has faced 2 big teams this season and he lined up the same timid way vs both of them. How has Liverpool strengthened since then?

How would you seriously ask me that? Klopp just had his first full preseason with the team which has further enabled his players to get to grips with what he wants. You can see better gameplay from the likes of firminho, coutinho Henderson now becoming a perfect midfield maestro. They have made very good acquisitions in mane and wildjandum(incorrect spelling). They now have very good balance and team chemistry.

Of the 10 outfield players who started yesterday 8 of them were there last season. So how has Liverpool strengthened significantly?[\quote]
I just answered that above.

[quote]Mou will Play Arsenal, Spurs Chelsea setup defensively and you will come up with how those are too strong for one of the most expensive squads in football.

We havent forgotten how he managed to out-negative even Diego Simeone atletico by starting 7 defenders, Pack the bus vs David Moyes joke of a team or even parked the bus vs 10men PSG

So what will happen if he meets Barca, Madrid Bayern of this world

I am not supposed to say this as a rival but I believe that by then, Manchester United will be a much better team. And Moreso mourinho has won those teams countlessly , is not as if mourinho has anything to prove. He certainly is one of the best.

raumdeuter:
Attacking wise what is different from this Liverpool vs the one that played Sevilla? Mane?

If this Liverpool were to be in Europe you would see how those normal continental teams would handle them not even the elites

That was a one off event and Moreso that was last season. Liverpool have strengthened significantly since then. For forks sake, they have come out unscathed from all their clashes with the big teams this season.
One can definitely forgive mourinho for setting up defensively against them, forget the money spent, that team lacks cohesion and the team chemistry is languid right now, that comes with time. Considering both teams form, it was only logical for him to set up the team that way.

Kit wars: Chelsea £900m deal is still second to Man Utd, who trail Real Madrid

Adidas vs Nike or Man Utd vs Chelsea. The apparent ease with which Adidas let Nike takeover at Chelsea in a new £60 million per year, 15-year deal, suggests an even greater concentration by the sportswear sponsors on the mega club brands.

While Chelsea is certainly a big club brand, the scale of the difference between their deal (sum and term) and Manchester United’s, put them very much into a second, ‘non-galactico’ tier of clubs.

Adidas were paying £30 million a year for their Chelsea deal which had a year to run. Nike will double that to £60 million, but Manchester United are still earning £75 million a year from a 10-year Adidas deal signed in 2014.

If there is any suspicion that Adidas had just lost its appetite for big money kit deals then think again. Adidas pays Real Madrid £106 million a year. Nike of course have Barcelona on a similar super-sized deal.

£900 million over 15 years for Chelsea is nevertheless a huge commitment for the US brand and the West London club will almost certainly return to seriously challenging for major English and European honours in the next couple of seasons as new manager Antonio Conte is greenlighted to improve his aging squad.

The club also has the advantage of an underpinning kit supplier deal as it goes through the major business decisions of rebuilding and increasing the capacity of its Stamford Bridge stadium over the next 4/5 years. At the end of that process Nike will still be in place.

Chelsea paid £40 million to Adidas to exit their contract a year early. With all the other decisions the club needs to make as it evolves on and off the pitch, this looks like good business. It nails down a key sponsor deal for the journey.

“This is an incredibly exciting and important deal for the club,” said Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia. “Like Chelsea, Nike is known around the world for its excellence and innovation and we look forward to working together in what is sure to be a successful partnership. We believe Nike will be able to support our growth into new markets as well as helping us maintain our place among the world’s elite football clubs.”

The sponsorship was described in a club statement as the largest commercial deal in the club’s history. There was no indication if the deal is capped at the £60 million per year level or whether there are performance related bonuses on top.

Trevor Edwards, president of the Nike brand, said: “Chelsea is a world-class club with a rich tradition and passionate fans across the globe. The partnership with Chelsea reinforces our leadership position in football. We are excited to help grow the club’s global reach, serving players and supporters with Nike innovation and design.”

What both Granovskaia and Edwards have emphasised is that this deal is intended to push both brands globally and not just in the UK market. Chelsea has generally been slower into international markets in terms of sponsor deals and outreach than it’s the Nike deal could signify that a change in the club’s commercial focus is starting to be engineered more aggressively.

Beginning with the 2017/18 season, Nike will produce kit for the first team, Academy and Ladies teams, as well as a full range of clothing.

Kit wars: Chelsea £900m deal is still second to Man Utd, who trail Real Madrid
Man Utd: big buyers or smart selectors?

http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2016/10/18/kit-wars-chelsea-900m-deal-still-second-man-utd-trail-real-madrid/

Diego Costa vs. Antonio Conte: Much ado about ... something?

The English media is alive with the sound of Costa vs. Conte this morning, and they're all singing the same tune.

MAIL: Diego Costa warned about disrespect after Chelsea striker's clash with Antonio Conte over team instructions

TELEGRAPH: Chelsea order Diego Costa to hold his tongue in public after hectoring Antonio Conte

And so on.

Safe to say, there is ... something ... to all this. But that something, as it turns out, is very little, if anything concerning. Certainly at this time. It might of course one day grow into something concerning, but it also might not. It probably will not, though speculating is a bit useless. I would assume that mature, professional heads would prevail, that none of the involved parties are actually five years old (even if they might behave as such at times on the pitch), but you know what happens when you assume...

MAIL:

Conte was keen to deal with the incident without fuss and Costa, although notorious for his short-fuse, is not thought to be someone who holds a grudge and was seen fooling around with bystanders in the tunnel before leaving Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
TELEGRAPH:

Costa was seen laughing and joking when the Chelsea players had changed and left the dressing room, suggesting the incident was quickly dealt with and that the Spain international did not hold a grudge.
And so on.

You might not be surprised to learn that we have the Spanish media to thank for all this brouhaha. The assumption immediately after the match had been that Costa wanted to come off to ensure that he doesn't get suspended for the next match by potentially receiving his fifth yellow card of the season, but thanks to some intrepid Spanish lipreaders, that theory has been subverted.

Conte recrimina a Costa un error en el tiro. DC: "La puta que te parió. Cámbiame si no te gusta" pic.twitter.com/OQtHqaRp09

— Diego G. Argota (@Diego21Garcia) October 15, 2016
According to Marca, part of what Diego is screaming back at the bench is "Si no te voy bien... ¡cámbiame!" (other parts may or may not contain a few expletives). That, more or less, translates to "If you don't like it, take me off" — which is how the conclusions about Costa getting a bit miffed about Conte's constant coercing have come about.

And I could certainly see a scenario where Conte's micro-management from the sidelines could get on someone's nerves, especially when the match is well in control. But these sorts of things can and do happen in the heightened emotional atmosphere of a high-stakes match (and not just in football), especially when two passionate individuals like Costa and Conte are involved. The vast majority of time, flashpoints like this get resolved behind the scenes and without too much fuss or elaborate ceremony. Conte had already played it down immediately after the match, and it sounds like Costa didn't really care either by the end of the day. They'll make for a juicy tabloid story or two, but won't have any lasting negative impact beyond that. And that's probably exactly what's going to happen here as well.

Carry on.

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2016/10/18/13314768/never-a-boring-day-is-there