Questions have been asked about Antonio Conte`s demeanour in recent weeks. He appears to have transformed from a passionate Italian to dour rain sodden Englishman.
He clearly feels aggrieved by the lack of support he perceives has come from those above. The unrest that Chelsea FC create for their managers is in turn jumped upon by the media. For Conte that unrest has to be addressed in both pre-match and post match interviews.
Whilst we maybe see, hear or read only one interview, the manager has to give individual interviews to each section of the media. TV, radio and written press don`t sit in on the same interviews.
So with two, sometimes three games in a week he`s giving countless interviews to all the different factions of media. When those questions, concern your future, it must be incredibly frustrating and tiring to keep on repeating the same old lines. That`s why, I imagine, he uses the phrase ‘and I repeat` so often. He`s not just repeating from that specific interview but the countless ones done in the preceding hour.
Worse still for him, the majority of the interviews are not done in his native language. Add in the interviews for the foreign media and you have a situation that is almost impossible to manage.
Last season he was able to just discuss the football, but with a different agenda this time round the football talk is superfluous. Hopefully a week without a game has at least given Conte a small break from continually repeating himself.
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