ScottDaYid - 28/7/2017 09:24
Of course he's right in what he says but he has no right to say it about us. If an ex manager/player says it then fair enough, he's just playing mind games already. You don't hear Poch (or many other managers) commenting on other teams in a negative way.
Obviously has no class, suits them down to the ground.
He is right; our ambition is limited by our finances - the chasm that exists between us and those we've raised above of in recent years, is in financial terms, vast.
Of course, if we had a billionaire owners who was gung-ho and full off burning ambition and didn't care two shakes of a lambs tail how much money he burned, we might have achieved more quicker - but the leagues are littered with clubs and billionaires that are now on the bonfire of the vanity's.
I was reminded just a couple of days ago of the costs of QPR's ambitious billionaire owners - they spent money like water and are now in a deep dark whole and may never recover as funnily enough the very Billionaires that sanctioned the spending are now refusing to deal with the £260 mill debt hole they're in...
They are a badly broken club, and are soon to be joined by another ambitious billionaires club in Sunderland where the Billionaire has now got bored that 'success' wasn't guaranteed after spending big on fees and salaries the club can't support.
So, Conte has a point, we are limited by our financial prudence and a continuous ethic of living within our means, and that means the very definition of progress has at times been ponderous and littered with opportunities we didn't and perhaps might have risked taking.
But that's history, what we now have in progress is the differing attributes for an amazingly bright future where finally we will be both playing and financially competitive in the toughest league in the World.
Finally, Levy's long PL experience and frustratingly stable approach is paying off.
No doubt they will still be those advocating finding an 'ambitious' Billionaire(s) owner(s) who will splash cash we don't have to close the gap between us and the elite who do - and who knows maybe we will find a new Abramovitch or new Chinese/American sports investors who will do just that, and then we too can buy our way to success, but let's just hope the new owners don't get bored with not getting instant success, as so many have before them.
As for Conte, I love it that he feels the need to say this, it means he already is feeling the pressure and it means Mourinho has already got under his skin.