How can Antonio Conte bring Spurs some stability and success?

[mawspurs]

Tottenham have been infuriatingly inconsistent this season but, with a few changes, they could have a calmer future. You’d be hard pressed to find a more Jekyll and Hyde football team than Tottenham at present. One game they’re beating defending champions Manchester City, the next they’re losing to relegation-threatened Burnley. Their thumping 4-0 win at Leeds on Saturday was followed up by an abject display and early FA Cup exit at the hands of Championship club Middlesbrough on Tuesday night. No wonder Antonio Conte looks so dejected on the sidelines.

Source: Guardian

 

[coy-spurs1882]

sweep out those frauds and replace them with proper footballers

 

[Japhet]

Huge Summer window coming up. Can't draw any conclusions til that's done. I think Levy will let the moths out of his wallet this time.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Middlesbrough pair Djed Spence, currently on loan at Nottingham Forest, and Isaiah Jones, who tore Spurs to shreds on Tuesday night,


I'll happily acknowledge that we were shit on Tuesday night, but that just never happened.

 

[whitesocks]

Huge Summer window coming up. Can't draw any conclusions til that's done. I think Levy will let the moths out of his wallet this time.

Joe Lewis is the man with the money.
Good luck with that.

 

[Marty]

I fully believe that Conte's best chance of getting us consistent is being out of all cups and only playing once a week. That's how he got Chelsea going when they weren't in Europe, and his best runs in Italy also came when the fixture list wasn't congested.

But if he can't get it going these next two months and we fail to add well in the summer then I fear he won't stay to the end of this year.

 

[Chedozie]

Huge Summer window coming up. Can't draw any conclusions til that's done. I think Levy will let the moths out of his wallet this time.

I think he has to, if for no other reason that he can’t maximise stadium revenue if we’re out of the champions league.

Also, it’s not his money, it’s just further debt secured against the club.

 

[spursbhoy67]

I fully believe that Conte's best chance of getting us consistent is being out of all cups and only playing once a week. That's how he got Chelsea going when they weren't in Europe, and his best runs in Italy also came when the fixture list wasn't congested.

But if he can't get it going these next two months and we fail to add well in the summer then I fear he won't stay to the end of this year.

Could make a case that if he fails to get this team going in the next two months with time on the training ground to prepare for games then perhaps questions should be asked of him.

 

[slartibartfast]

He can't. No one can.
Next.

 

[thebenjamin]

I think he has to, if for no other reason that he can’t maximise stadium revenue if we’re out of the champions league.

Also, it’s not his money, it’s just further debt secured against the club.

I don't actually doubt that he intends to support Conte. The question is does the club have the competence to pull off the deals. That's what I doubt.

 

[whitesocks]

I think he has to, if for no other reason that he can’t maximise stadium revenue if we’re out of the champions league.

Also, it’s not his money, it’s just further debt secured against the club.

We keep racking up that stadium credit card. I guess it deters any glazer types, coming in and loading us in debt to pay back their purchase of the club. They may well find that card is already maxed out.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Could make a case that if he fails to get this team going in the next two months with time on the training ground to prepare for games then perhaps questions should be asked of him.

He could indeed make a case over the next couple of months. But you need to take into account that, on the whole, he's still polishing the same turd that 2 of his predecessors failed with.

He's not working with his squad.

The time for judgement comes when he is, & that time is most certainly not in the first ever season where he's taken over a club mid-season.

 

[spursbhoy67]

He could indeed make a case over the next couple of months. But you need to take into account that, on the whole, he's still polishing the same turd that 2 of his predecessors failed with.

He's not working with his squad.

The time for judgement comes when he is, & that time is most certainly not in the first ever season where he's taken over a club mid-season.

I understand your point, but PL managers don't get time. If there is no sign of progress and someone like Poch is available Levy will pull the trigger.

Conte is a top level coach and should be able to have an impact between now and the end of the season. His tactics at Burnley, Mboro and against Wolves and Southampton were head scratching. If he continues to have more games like these four he will be gone.

I understand the point about saying it is not his squad, but Conte has to work with those wearing the shirt. No new manager is ever working with his squad, but they have to get the job done. His man-management needs to be about motivating and improving the current players.

Conte is a winner. I hope he wins at Tottenham. I am not sure he will. He will win at another club if we let him go. We might have the right manager at the wrong time. This team and this project may be about a Graham Potter type now. Only time will tell.

 

[Metalhead]

I understand your point, but PL managers don't get time. If there is no sign of progress and someone like Poch is available Levy will pull the trigger.

Conte is a top level coach and should be able to have an impact between now and the end of the season. His tactics at Burnley, Mboro and against Wolves and Southampton were head scratching. If he continues to have more games like these four he will be gone.

I understand the point about saying it is not his squad, but Conte has to work with those wearing the shirt. No new manager is ever working with his squad, but they have to get the job done. His man-management needs to be about motivating and improving the current players.

Conte is a winner. I hope he wins at Tottenham. I am not sure he will. He will win at another club if we let him go. We might have the right manager at the wrong time. This team and this project may be about a Graham Potter type now. Only time will tell.

We've pretty much had every type of manager or coach possible at the club.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

I understand your point, but PL managers don't get time. If there is no sign of progress and someone like Poch is available Levy will pull the trigger.

Conte is a top level coach and should be able to have an impact between now and the end of the season. His tactics at Burnley, Mboro and against Wolves and Southampton were head scratching. If he continues to have more games like these four he will be gone.

I understand the point about saying it is not his squad, but Conte has to work with those wearing the shirt. No new manager is ever working with his squad, but they have to get the job done. His man-management needs to be about motivating and improving the current players.

Conte is a winner. I hope he wins at Tottenham. I am not sure he will. He will win at another club if we let him go. We might have the right manager at the wrong time. This team and this project may be about a Graham Potter type now. Only time will tell.

I too see your point. But the thing with Conte, there's more than just a hope that he's going to get the team clicking & performing, thus bringing the results. It's the hope that he's the one man who's going to change how the club acts off the field.

He's not just a change in coach. He's the change in culture that this club has needed for fat too long. I don't know if you believe ITK, or what you read in the press? But many of those people have said/suggested that this is very much Levy’s last throw of the dice, and it's very easy to believe because, as we know, if Conte doesn't get what the board tells him he'll get, he's not shy in letting the world know about it.

And why wouldn't he? When you've achieved what he has, you've every right to call out those who have let you down. Unlike one of his predecessors, the ultimate **** Mourinho , Conte cares more for his reputation as a winner, than he does for his ego & bank balance.

If a few sketchy results against (supposed) inferior clubs is what we have to endure before the end of the season, to see an absolute change in how the club operates on the whole. I'll take that mate.