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Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte
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DenverSpur
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Wrong attitude. If you’re playing for yourself you are not playing for the team. If one can get away with that others will follow and soon you have just a group of individuals not a team.
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SargeantMeatCurtains
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He’s managed in incredibly favourable circumstances his entire career. Even at Inter, his spending ran the club into near oblivion.
I’m sure if Conte was given a blank cheque at this club, he’d have been way more successful but he was backed and backed considerably more than any of his predecessors and he has failed spectacularly.
Yes, the club failed him but then it was always going to be difficult to please him with the level of spending he requires to bring success. All his time at Spurs has done is proven he is nowhere close to the same level as the the truly elite managers.
Doesn’t mean I wasn’t happy with the product I was watching. The football was fantastic but it was always annoying the way we treated the cups.
Poch’s first season we got knocked out of the FA cup, Europa League and lost the League cup final all in a fortnight - there were disappointing times as well
knowlespurs
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Who do you think Conte is referring to when calling players selfish and as Trix said dialling it in?
Ghost Hardware
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Might well be the case but I don’t see it being any different if Mason is in charge. Maybe for the first few games but i really don’t see us getting top 4 if Levy expects Mason to see out the season. Not that Conte necessarily will ether. But if it’s a choice between the two neither is an attractive option.
nailsy
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Didn't we have a European quarter final on a Thursday night, then the league cup final a few days later? Our squad just wasn't ready for it back then
DenverSpur
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What had Klopp done with Liverpool after 18 months?
ultimateloner
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Jose appointment made sense at the time. The narrative then was sqaud burnt-out and Poch also seemed more petulant as results worsened. Getting a worldclass coach with the aim of a quick fix seemed prudent.
SirNiNyHotspur
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Don’t need a press conference for that, besides he’s probably been reigned in again since then after the emotion of the moment. He was obviously talking about both, if just the players he didn’t need to talk about owners and 20 years etc He’s implying when you have owners without the drive and focus to win then the players who are comfortable with that challenge or rather lack thereof will follow, players that don’t thrive on the pressure, face it we’re brimming full with a squad full of losers and 20 years backs up what he’s saying…
jedimonkey
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Tottenham’s squad believe Antonio Conte is ‘going or gone’ after outburst
The Tottenham squad expect Antonio Conte to leave the club in the summer at the latest following the manager’s outburst after the 3-3 draw at Southampton
www.theguardian.com
Dazzazzad
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Everyone knows how good he is.
If a job at club X was available and every manager on the planet applied, Pep is getting it.
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100%. As a defender still trotting about in a crap old mans league, this 'style' would be an absolute nightmare to play in. Absorbing pressure for huge chunks of matches sounds like hell to me. No wonder the players are fed up. I would be too. There is nothing more enjoyable than playing good passing, attacking, football on a decent deck. It just feels good...
Not saying the players and Levy aren't culpable (they obviously are). As A&C and many others have said, it's a toxic cocktail of shitness throughout the club and has to change - the shitty tactics and Conte's ****y childish rants are an easy fix.
Pep failing to win the CL with either Bayern or City in my opinion rules him out of the elite status. Winning with Barca when you have prime Messi just doesn’t cut it.
The Elites are Klopp/Tuchel/Ancellotti/Zidane - Spalletti possibly enters the picture if Napoli lift it this year also.
Ghost Hardware
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It might well be true, but why should morale be high if they are performing as they are each week. Being happy to be mediocre is a big issue with our club. Why should the manager be roasting marshmallows and singing kumbaya with them when they aren’t playing anywhere near their ability. Yes the tactics aren’t great but surely the players should have a little pride. After what I saw in both cup games, as much as the tactics were dull the players could and should still have done so so much better.
I don’t want Conte to stay and I didn’t want him in the first place but he’s right to be pissed off and the players should be as well but they should be angry at themselves for playing like ass.
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EastLondonYid
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Someone should send our elite coach highlights of PSG's 2-0 defeat at home tonight.
Djed Spence v Mbappe and Messi.
If the current players are so shit, maybe Spence and Danjuma could have had a few minutes.
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Djed Spence v Mbappe and Messi.
If the current players are so shit, maybe Spence and Danjuma could have had a few minutes.
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Tottenham’s squad believe Antonio Conte is ‘going or gone’ after outburst
The Tottenham squad expect Antonio Conte to leave the club in the summer at the latest following the manager’s outburst after the 3-3 draw at Southampton
how very perceptive of them.
Cinemattis
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I´ve been musing over the expression that "the manager has lost the dressing room"; sometimes, especially this time, I think it might be the other way around. That the dressing room has lost the manager.
I think I can go one better than that Moyes - faaack me what were United thinking
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