Det her er hvad jeg glæder mig til ved Conte:
When Bonucci spoke to The Athletic earlier this month, he revealed his ambition to become a coach started while working under him.
"I´ve been jotting things down in a notebook for years now - ever since I played for Conte. He was such an important coach for me," Bonucci said, "He changed my career. It´s the mentality he gave me and Juventus too, the football knowledge he passed on." One former collaborator says you come out of working with Conte tired but with a far deeper understanding of the game.
Conte does not suffer fools, this much we know. To him, attitude and application is everything.
Interviewed by Thierry Henry while at Chelsea, Conte said: "I always talk about education and respect. I demand this. I give this. But I demand this. And if someone hasn´t a good attitude in the training session or good behaviour in different circumstances, I prefer to kill him."
At Juventus, Reto Ziegler didn´t finish training camp. Felipe Melo and Amauri lasted two days. At Inter, he wasted no time in instructing the club to sell 2018-19 top scorer Mauro Icardi, who had been stripped of the captaincy by predecessor Luciano Spalletti after his wife and agent Wanda Nara kept critiquing the team´s performances on late-night sports shows. Radja Nainggolan´s love of a night out meant he was gone too. This was a guy Inter had paid Roma €38 million for a year earlier.
A player´s fame or Twitter following means nothing to Conte. What he´s done in the past, forget it. It´s why Mario Balotelli got one call-up to his Italy squads, the benefit of the doubt, and that was it. "Conte´s strength is the reset," Chiellini writes in his autobiography. It´s in creating a winning culture, a "little war machine".