Categories: Football

“We had Van Dijk and Lukaku tied up”

In an interview with ‘The
Telegraph', The current technician of the Inter
from
Milan, Antonio
Conte, has surprised assuring that he had tied to Virgil
go
Dijk Y Romelu
Lukaku during his time in England.

Conte directed between 2016 and 2018 at Chelsea, set with which he achieved Premier
League in his first season in London and a FA
Cup in his second campaign as a ‘blue’ coach, in which he was dismissed after failing to qualify for the Champions
League.

“I asked for two players and we were very, very close to winning the league in 2017,” said the former Italian coach. These two players were neither more nor less than Go
Dijk, which finally changed
Southampton by Liverpool in January 2018, and Lukaku, current ward of Conte at Inter and at that time soccer player Manchester
United.

We were very very close

“We were in contact with them, I always said that with them we would have improved the team by 30%. From there we lost our best moment and the possibility of staying there for years. It was a shame, because Romelu at Inter is showing that he was right and Van Dijk is also right at Liverpool ”, he revealed Conte to the British newspaper.

Antonio Conte, Inter Milan coach and former Chelsea manager

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