Ashley Young has said Antonio Conte would be a disaster at Manchester United if the players are not ready for his running demands. Young spent a season under Conte at Inter, and he says the workload and meetings are exactly what would make the move hard to sell at Old Trafford.
Young's Conte warning
“If they’re not going to run and Antonio Conte goes in there, it’s going to be a disaster,” Young told dailymail.com. He also said Conte’s training sessions at Inter were heavy on 11 v 11 work and that the meetings could last three or four hours.
That part of the story matters because Young is not speaking from a distance. He and Conte won Serie A together at Inter in 2020-21, yet he still described the sessions as “a little bit boring” and said the meetings could stop everything after a defeat.
Why the United links keep coming up
Conte is 57 and is out of work after leaving Napoli at the end of last season, following a two-year stint in which he won Serie A and the Italian Super Cup. He has also won league titles at Chelsea, Juventus and Inter, which is why his name keeps surfacing when a big job opens up.
The Manchester United discussion is happening against a poor run. United are 13th in the Premier League, have drawn four and lost one in their last five league games, and Sunday’s draw extended their winless run to six matches. Conte, meanwhile, has spoken about wanting clubs with pressure, trophies and the expectation to compete, but Young’s warning is that the fit at United would be far messier than the reputation suggests.
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