Inter are not the first club to feel Antonio Conte’s wrath when it comes to questionable transfer activity, as Tuttosport explained this morning.
Conte told reporters in a press conference yesterday that the Nerazzurri were behind schedule this summer, both in terms of signing and selling players.
Friday’s outburst was merely the latest in a long line of in-house attacks, however, as Juventus and Chelsea’s management know only too well.
“It pretty much happened every season in Turin,” the paper recalled.
“When he first arrived in 2011 he wasn’t convinced at signing Andrea Pirlo and spent the entire summer requesting a ‘top player’, in vain.
“In 2012 he stamped his feet about getting Sebastiano Giovinco back from Parma and in the end the club satisfied his request, but in a very costly €11 million deal.
“The summer of 2013 was when he became very angry about the departures of Alessandro Matri and Emanuele Giaccherini. Their sales were compensated with the arrival of Carlos Tevez but Conte was unhappy regardless.
“Then at the end of his final season with Juventus came the comments which burned his bridges with most of the club’s supporters, when Conte said: ‘If you sit down in a restaurant where you have to pay €100 to eat, you can’t attempt to pay €10.'”
Conte resigned from his post at Juve in the summer of 2014 after the club failed to sign Juan Cuadrado, Juan Manuel Iturbe or Alexis Sanchez.
He was never entirely satisfied by Chelsea’s transfer business either, however, infuriating the club in 2017 when he discarded Diego Costa with a curt text message.