'Maybe I’m not so good’: Conte questions Tottenham future after Burnley loss

[mawspurs]

Antonio Conte has questioned whether he is the right manager to turn Tottenham’s fortunes around after Burnley inflicted their fourth defeat in five games, with the Italian admitting he is “too honest to close my eyes and continue in this way”.

Source: The Guardian

 

[Spurs 1961]

So is this Conte looking up north to the Man Utd job?

Also the players are not the same. Lloris, Dier, Davies, Kane and Son are the only Poch era players who started last night. World Cup winning captain, two world class forwards, Dier who has been consistently good in recent times.
If his complaint is the way the club is run then don’t throw players under the bus. Just say the board are rubbish and the club run poorly. Or us Conte saying that Kane, Lloris, Son are the problem?

Against most people on SC I have always taken the attitude of backing out players and hate it when they are rubbished by people, including clearly inadequate managers..

 

[Chedozie]

Conte is a genuinely emotional man, we’re hardened to these results, it might kill him.

 

[GutBucket]

Conte is always like that when he loses, he was the same last year when he won Seria A. He did leave in the end though, we need to have good Summer transfer window.

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

He's blaming himself not the players. Hopefully he gives it the summer window before pulling the trigger.

For me, His main issue Is a consistently weak cm and wing backs not upto the standards.

I've gone back to accepting spurs are now an upper-mid table side. It makes it much easier. If things change then great, but I don't expect it to.

 

[Metalhead]

So is this Conte looking up north to the Man Utd job?

Also the players are not the same. Lloris, Dier, Davies, Kane and Son are the only Poch era players who started last night. World Cup winning captain, two world class forwards, Dier who has been consistently good in recent times.
If his complaint is the way the club is run then don’t throw players under the bus. Just say the board are rubbish and the club run poorly. Or us Conte saying that Kane, Lloris, Son are the problem?

Against most people on SC I have always taken the attitude of backing out players and hate it when they are rubbished by people, including clearly inadequate managers..

I don't think that picking on individual players is necessarily helpful. I wouldn't say that a coach like Conte is inadequate though - unless it's not the hugely successful coach that was employed by the club.

 

[Chedozie]

He's blaming himself not the players. Hopefully he gives it the summer window before pulling the trigger.

For me, His main issue Is a consistently weak cm and wing backs not upto the standards.

I've gone back to accepting spurs are now an upper-mid table side. It makes it much easier. If things change then great, but I don't expect it to.

I agree, I’ve never known such little creativity from our central midfield players, so much so that Bentancur looks like Hoddle next to any of them.

 

[tvspur]

I agree, I’ve never known such little creativity from our central midfield players, so much so that Bentancur looks like Hoddle next to any of them.

It's been that way since Christian Ericson decided he no longer wanted to play for us. He provided the creativity for most of our attacks but principally for Deli Alli who was never the same once Ericson went off the boil. We've been crying out for a decent playmaker ever since. Ndombele was supposed to provide that narrative, but we all know how that turned out. Just watching our sterility in midfield breaks my heart sometimes, but I'm hopeful for Bentancur as he looks a player.

 

[jolsnogross]

It's not much fun watching us most of the time. Too many of our players don't try to beat an opponent, half turn away from a marker, or play first time passes. It's despairing to see how often it gets out wide and 99% of the time comes trundling backwards or just inside.

When you watch a decent team play with purpose so routinely, you see how grim we are. Kane aside, we were very pedestrian vs Burnley and I think we've found our level after a new manager bounce.

 

[mark67spurs]

To state, which I believe is true, we need to bring in at least 6 very good players to add to the squad, players that will come from the bench or start games, we need players for the season we are playing, not the youngster with potential and keep rebuilding the team... Look at the benches of other top 5 teams, depth, journeymen, players for the moment... Unfortunately Levy has this permanent idea to bring potential and younger players with selling value, nice to run a business, but winning season in and out brings more rewards.
We have a winning manager and must be backed 100%.

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

 

[yiddopaul]

Well he did say that it will take 3 or 4 transfer windows to get the team where it needs to be. So it's a bit weird he acts so surprised at the levels we're at right now. Despite recent results (bar City), I think we can see progress. It feels like we at least have a plan. I imagine this is Conte reacting like us fans react after such games – very reactive. If not, and this is him trying to find a way out, then the character of the man is not what we thought it was. Tottenham are a sleeping giant (some might say we've been in a coma for decades), we have the infrastructure in place – best stadium, training facilities, manager, amazing fan base, we're not skint, we have money. Everything's in place. I've always said that a truly world class manager will win things with us.

 

[Chedozie]

It's been that way since Christian Ericson decided he no longer wanted to play for us. He provided the creativity for most of our attacks but principally for Deli Alli who was never the same once Ericson went off the boil. We've been crying out for a decent playmaker ever since. Ndombele was supposed to provide that narrative, but we all know how that turned out. Just watching our sterility in midfield breaks my heart sometimes, but I'm hopeful for Bentancur as he looks a player.

I agree, when the midfield is Højbjerg and Winks I don’t think we’ll score, they’re incapable of playing a through ball or even a ball into space. I find our midfield embarrassing.

 

[Meercat]

The guy isn’t used to losing - if I heard right this is the first time in his life he’s lost 4 out of 5 games, and you have to go right back to his first job to see him lose 3 in a row… There are different kinds of people, not just winners and losers, that’s too binary, but you always hear talk of needing players who are up for the relegation fight, who have the right stuff, who can lose four, knowing the win in the fifth is vital survival points, and can rise for that rather than just slouch towards oblivion. This isn’t saying we are in a relegation fight remotely, we are doing what I think most of us expected when the season kicked off, heading towards comfortable mid table. But to be comfortably mid table that means dropping a lot of points, losing games you’d expect to win, etc. And Conte isn’t used to that. I’m kinda glad he isn’t enjoying it. It’d be harder to take if he was just accepting of it, because it would mean there was no engagement with the club.

On 39p with 14 games to go we’re probably comfortable for 60p+ skirting on the edge of UL/Conf positions - that’s a damned sight different to pushing for a title which is what he’s familiar with. If we still had Nuno I doubt very much we’d be suffering these bipolar pressers and the massive moodswings, because to a degree he is exactly that kind of manager, a guy made for the 60p edge of UL/Conf positions… We need to ride this out, eyes on the summer and next season.

Personally, when we lose, I’d be getting Mase to do the pressers, but a barrier between Conte’s volatile heart on sleeve emotions, and the press corps.

What we need, to my mind, is a brilliant FA Cup run, and it casts an entirely different light on the season.