“I’m pleased to see that he’s improving a lot and I am waiting on Zouma with great happiness”.
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‘Diego is a passionate man.
“When we take the decision about the players, we always take the decision together – me and the club”, Conte said. He must transfer his emotions on to the pitch in the right way.
Costa has started the new Premier League season in typical fervid form and has already picked up two yellow cards in three matches.
“David can improve in defensive situations but he is a good guy, a positive guy for the changing room”. It’s fantastic. We do this work but, for us, it’s not work it’s a passion.
“Marcos was just 19 then [at Bolton] and he was nearly like Nathaniel Chalobah or the other guys here now who are coming into the team and trying to break through”, Cahill told Chelsea’s official website. “I know this from my experience as a player”, Conte told reporters on Friday.
“It’s important to transfer this to our fans and all the people who watch the game. David is a natural player but if he must improve in some aspect, I am here for this, to improve the players, work on their weakness and make them stronger”.
The striker expressed his frustration at his treatment earlier in the week, but Conte insists he must forget any grudges.
“It’s important to be focused on the pitch and to leave the other situations”. Those other situations are not interesting for him, for me, for Chelsea, for the fans or for the national team.
“I watched the game [that Chelsea lost 1-0]”, Conte added. “Today we had the first training [this week] with all the players, because Willian arrived after training yesterday, but he had the possibility to have the same training with the assistant coach”. This is the normal way to behave if you are in this job.
‘If you play well but don’t score, people say the performance is not good. The defender, who suffered cruciate ligament damage against Manchester United seven months ago just when his career appeared to be taking off, is yet to play a game on his return from injury, even behind closed doors.
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“It’s important to remember when I started at Juventus, with Chiellini, Bonucci and Barzagli, the defence of Juventus had been conceding a lot of goals”, Serie A title-winning former Juventus boss Conte said.
