Bringing Swagger to Chelsea's Title March
Sportstar|February 18, 2017

In charge of a team with bounteous talent, Antonio Conte is proving he is yet another special one. If his success with Juventus can be relied upon, he may establish a Chelsea side that would REPLICATE THE GLORIES of his former Italian team. Conte’s teams are notoriously difficult to catch once they move ahead, something Serie A teams will find hard to dispute.

- Priyansh
Bringing Swagger to Chelsea's Title March

When Roman Abramovich first sacked Jose Mourinho, in 2007, he was looking for “sexy football.” Pragmatism was not enough, there had to be a style, an aggressive endeavour, an expansive mode of play. The domestic titles had arrived; European success was still elusive but there was a feeling within the Chelsea hierarchy that continental glory would be a willing ally of a fashionable method.

THE EXPECTATIONS, THOUGH, had changed by the time of Mourinho’s second departure. Here was a club mired in crisis. The 2014-15 league title win was swiftly consigned to the obscure reaches of memory as Chelsea plumbed new depths. European football was no longer within the London club’s grasp, for the first time since the arrival of Abramovich.

It was not so much the failure of Mourinho but the lack of an identity that rankled Chelsea. The Portuguese manager’s association with the club had ended sourly but there was no Frank Lampard or John Terry to rally the troops anymore. Terry was still on the club’s books but he was clearly on borrowed time. The club required surgery.

Two men were identified for the manager’s job — while Guus Hiddink sought to ensure some respectability to a disastrous season — Antonio Conte and Diego Simeone. Before he went to the EUROs with Italy, Chelsea managed to lure the former. The Azzurri’s heroics in France only heightened the expectations of the Blues’ faithful; an indifferent start to the league campaign, however, tempered the mood.

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