It is widely thought that the outcome of Tottenham-Milan could decide Conte’s future on the Spurs bench. It may be, as it could also be that the crossing with a great rival from his past, first as a footballer and then as a coach, fuels the suggestion of his forthcoming return to Italy, over thirty years of challenges, most of which right to cross the saber with Paolo Maldini, Rossoneri totem and team-mate in the national team. The two have always been friends.
There are those who think of Conte for after Inzaghi, and hypothesize suggestive market scenarios, but perhaps forget why Conte ended up in London. His breaking his contract a year early because the club’s economic situation no longer guaranteed prospects of success: two years later, if the situation has changed, he only did it negatively and the summer transfer market to do without money will be all it’s more than simple. It would be really curious if a club that paid him a severance pay of 7.5 million would call him back to entrust him with a weaker team. If it isn’t Inzaghi, and there is a risk, the next Inter coach will have a different profile: lots of ideas and fewer medals, that is, fewer demands. And if we want to believe in fairy tales, everyone is happy.
And equally today it seems like a fairy tale, if not a dream of the fans, Conte’s return to Italy to his old black and white love. Here there are even more variables, and it matters little that Antonio wants to reunite with his family, who never left Turin, not even when he coached Inter. Meanwhile, Allegri’s contract is involved, another 2 years at 9 million net, including bonuses. And then there is the sporting future of Juventus. Where will he play? For what goals? In which league? Conte in London earns 15 million net and we know that Spurs have an option to renew his contract for another season. How many would be enough to return to Turin?
Obviously no one will keep Conte unwillingly in London. If he really wants Italy, he will come to Italy, to train or maybe to wait for a bench to become available for him. It is suggestive to think that he could be the coach of the black and white reconstruction, but it would be a great turnaround compared to his consolidated habits, which have become necessities over time. That is, he has a team ready to win immediately. Can they guarantee it to him in Turin, net of any financial sacrifice to liquidate Allegri? Here too, what will Juventus’ next transfer market be, probably without the Cups, or even relegated? In the first case alone, a very clear cut in costs would be indispensable, which goes poorly with the story of Conte’s return to Turin.
What if instead Antonio Conte’s next team was Milan? And if the outcome of the eighth of the Champions League, and absolutely the season finale, decide not only his fate but also that of Pioli? Here too there is a newly renewed contract (and for two years), but there is no doubt that Conte would guarantee at least a jump in status to the Rossoneri bench. Milan’s accounts are almost in order and could offer him an important signing, they have a young team with several players in the growth phase and they also have prospects on the market that the two historic rivals do not have. Already this year, investing without however adequately reinforcing himself for the immediate future, he has spent without having to sell. Nobody did. If he collects 70/80 million in the summer by selling Leao, and maybe more if the Portuguese ends the season up to his possibilities, there will be not a little treasure, but a real treasure to strengthen the team and tempt Conte to lead it . Of course, by wanting to.
@GianniVisnadi
