Antonio Conte didn’t hit the mark at Chelsea or Tottenham, but in Serie A, the Italian fox has shown he delivers titles. As the first coach, the 55-year-old has written himself into league history last season with a Serie A title for three different clubs. Juventus, Inter Milan, now Napoli. It was in the last month before the end of the season that rumours ran out that Conte had fallen out with the club president, but it worked out. Now it is rigged for a Champions League title. This means another trip to Manchester.
Scott McTominay was brought to Napoli by Antonio Conte and “let loose” in the attacking part of midfield. For Napoli, this contributed greatly to the Serie A title, former super reserve McTominay delivered the Serie A Player of the Year award. He is also from Manchester. Now Conte is aiming to create a quartet of underrated Premier League players.
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McTominay was never given the trust many believe he deserved at United, even though the Scot repeatedly came on as a substitute under Ten Hag and changed the course of the game in United’s favour. This season, the Scot has been absolutely outstanding, in sparkling interplay with another underrated former Manchester United player, Romelu Lukaku.
Last week, Kevin de Bruyne came in as the next Premier League player in Conte’s squad. The Belgian is considered one of the world’s best, Pep Guardiola gives De Bruyne much of the credit for City’s consistent Premier League success on his watch. For the past six months, however, Manchester City have considered the 33-year-old to be “has been”, and did not give the Belgian the contract extension he wanted. Now De Bruyne will show in the Napoli shirt that the City management was wrong.
It doesn’t stop there for Conte. According to the inky Sun, Napoli have now turned to Jack Grealish. The ball artist and football’s rock star has not been allowed to unfold in Guatrdiola’s machine football, When the City players got on the plane to the United States for the Club World Cup, Grealish did not even have a ticket.
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Grealish will have to accept a hefty pay cut, but with the prospect of being able to enter the arena with his teammate De Bruyne at the reigning league champion with ambitions in the Champions League, the Englishman is probably flexible. Especially when it’s the World Cup in a year’s time and Grealish is behind in proving he should have a ticket for England.
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Grealish is said to be available for around £40 million.
We can only imagine what could lie in the pipeline if Grealish is released by Conte along with Lukaku, McTominay and De Bruyne. To us, the combination with Conte at the helm sounds like a real candidate for the Champions League title.
