at least coming in and maybe that's with the benefit of hindsight.

You're right as to who knows, though.

Conte started poorly, and got trashed by Arsenal in September, when he changed things up.

While he had been successful with the Italy national team and in Serie A, he was a question mark coming in.

As was Chelsea, who had just finished 10th during the disaster of Mou's final season, which was infinitely worse than last year.