Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

[iddebu52]

He can do one for all I care

 

[Yiddo100]

Matt Law and Conte linkup, this will be one hell of an anti Tottenham piece.

 

[BorjeSpurs]

When you couldn't get the team to perform you threw everyone under the bus so that the club had no choice but to fire you with pay.

Real winner's mentality that, Antonio.

 

[jurgen11]

Bore off...

 

[KH1882]

Such a clown, unprofessional!

 

[Yiddo100]

Such a clown, unprofessional!

The interviews not even that bad.

 

[hughy]

Can't stand this ****, and I never liked him when he was at Spurs. I had sympathy for his off-field problems, but he's the most detestable man to ever be associated with this football club in my lifetime (apart from the obvious, but I have mentally removed any association with him).

 

[Tucker]

Can't stand this ****, and I never liked him when he was at Spurs. I had sympathy for his off-field problems, but he's the most detestable man to ever be associated with this football club in my lifetime (apart from the obvious, but I have mentally removed any association with him).

Andy Sinton?

 

[jpascavitz]

I never minded Conte, thought he was passionate but very rigid (his downfall). We all knew when he was signed that it would be his way or end in doom, and it was the later.

Looking back at the whole time, the half season and the first half of last season were decently enjoyable. Then it went about as bad as it possibly could after the WC break lol and the football was awful. Glad we made a change, but to be honest, would we have reacted with Ange if we didn't have Conte... not sure!

In terms of the interview, I saw a quote that said he felt weird celebrating fourth place and he told his staff not to get used to that. IMO that's no different than what we say on here!

 

[Styopa]

In terms of the interview, I saw a quote that said he felt weird celebrating fourth place and he told his staff not to get used to that. IMO that's no different than what we say on here!

Yeah but we don’t celebrate finishing fourth and haven’t done for a long time. It’s seen as a minimum now and generally speaking we’re only ok with missing it when we are in a transition season. We didn’t celebrate all of the fourth place finishes under Pochettino.

Conte was the one who started talking about the “miracle” of finishing fourth. He invented the idea about it being a miracle for us to finish fourth and then invented the idea about us celebrating it like it was a trophy.

 

[robotsonic]

Yeah but we don’t celebrate finishing fourth and haven’t done for a long time. It’s seen as a minimum now and generally speaking we’re only ok with missing it when we are in a transition season. We didn’t celebrate all of the fourth place finishes under Pochettino.

Conte was the one who started talking about the “miracle” of finishing fourth. He invented the idea about it being a miracle for us to finish fourth and then invented the idea about us celebrating it like it was a trophy.

To be fair, I defo did celebrate every time we've finished in the CL places.

 

[14/04/91]

“I have to win”
Unless we’re 1-0 down on agg with 10 mins to go and I bring on a centre half, just in case we concede again….

(Yes Romero got sent off but that was still the final straw for me)

 

[Styopa]

To be fair, I defo did celebrate every time we've finished in the CL places.

Yeah me too, but I also celebrated when we beat Brighton the other day.

Fourth is a minimum for a club like us now, we don’t always make that minimum but it’s the minimum aim.

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

Yeah but we don’t celebrate finishing fourth and haven’t done for a long time. It’s seen as a minimum now and generally speaking we’re only ok with missing it when we are in a transition season. We didn’t celebrate all of the fourth place finishes under Pochettino.

Conte was the one who started talking about the “miracle” of finishing fourth. He invented the idea about it being a miracle for us to finish fourth and then invented the idea about us celebrating it like it was a trophy.

He took over the club with us in 9th place and falling under Nuno, in that context it was a miracle to finish 4th.

To then expect better from the team and staff the following season is exactly what we would all want, and it’s exactly what Ange is going to expect next season too.

I don’t see the problem with him using an analogy, and we have no idea how the staff at the club including the board reacted to us getting 4th. Maybe there was a celebration akin to winning a trophy?

 

[Nayim60yards]

“I have to win”
Unless we’re 1-0 down on agg with 10 mins to go and I bring on a centre half, just in case we concede again….

(Yes Romero got sent off but that was still the final straw for me)

And for Harry Kane as well! The look on his face when he saw Sanchez poised to enter the fray!

 

[BorjeSpurs]

He took over the club with us in 9th place and falling under Nuno, in that context it was a miracle to finish 4th.

No it wasn't.

After the United game when Nuno was fired we were 2 points away from any realistic top 4 contenders.

On top of that, Nuno had already played City, Arsenal, Chelsea, United and West Ham (at London Stadium).

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Conte says he is such a winner that finishing fourth isn’t enough for him. Great, but so what? If he’s too good for this job then he should have either (a) not taken it in the first place or (b) proven it whilst he was here. He finished fourth, just like Poch and Harry before him. Stay humble, Antonio.

 

[Styopa]

He took over the club with us in 9th place and falling under Nuno, in that context it was a miracle to finish 4th.

To then expect better from the team and staff the following season is exactly what we would all want, and it’s exactly what Ange is going to expect next season too.

I don’t see the problem with him using an analogy, and we have no idea how the staff at the club including the board reacted to us getting 4th. Maybe there was a celebration akin to winning a trophy?

It’s true we were ninth when Conte took over (after ten league matches), but we were only two points behind 5th placed Arsenal who we eventually finished two points above. A four point swing over twenty eight matches.

I’m not saying Conte didn’t do a good job during that season, but a miracle? Not for me. I suppose the bar had been set so low by Jose and Nuno that it maybe it felt like a miracle?

 

[Rout-Ledge]

It’s true we were ninth when Conte took over (after ten league matches), but we were only two points behind 5th placed Arsenal who we eventually finished two points above. A three point swing over twenty eight matches.

I’m not saying Conte didn’t do a good job during that season, but a miracle? Not for me. I suppose the bar had been set so low by Jose and Nuno that it maybe it felt like a miracle?

Conte did a genuinely really great job during that season - some bumps in the road notwithstanding. The problem was that he essentially downed tools the following season and blamed absolutely everyone but himself. He had some personal issues, which I had sympathy for. But if he had come out and said ‘I’ve had a really hard time of it this year and I just can’t manage the pressure of managing full time. I need a break. Thank you for the opportunity Spurs and good luck’ I think the view of him on here would be markedly different.

 

[easley91]

Have any of you actually read the article/interview? Because I have and it really isn't that bad.

Some of you also seem to forget that he had lost three close friends in a very short period and had a health scare of his own yet you talk about him like Harry Potter talks about he who should not be named.