Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

[spursfan77]

You are forgetting money though. Conte will still want to work. Yes he's rich, but he's not rich enough to turn down millions a year as a football coach doing what he loves.

Unless he wants to stop working completely, he has to work abroad, as Italy isn't an option, he's already been at Juve and Inter. So it's nothing to worry about.

What I imagine will happen, is once Conte is backed, the club will offer him a long term contract before the start of the season. I reckon sometime in August. He signs it. Cue the board room picture with him grinning away.

He's in London, best league in the world against the best coaches, at a CL club, with world class players and money to spend. There are not many better places to be.

Or paying it back if he was to leave mid contract. It is one of the reasons why I've never believed he would walk. Don't forget we have the option to extend too which you know Levy would execute and so Conte would have to come to an agreement on 2 years of a contract. That's £24m not including bonuses.

 

[mil1lion]

He’s putting the furniture in the house Poch built. ?

We're shopping in John Lewis instead of Argos

 

[Wig]

Ally has spoken

I love Ally but how on earth does one man talk non-stop for one hour?

 

[Reado]

We're shopping in Joe Lewis instead of Argos

 

[Aphex]

 

[carmeldevil]

I love Ally but how on earth does one man talk non-stop for one hour?

have you met my wife? one hour is nothing to her. ?

 

[Tucker]

I love Ally but how on earth does one man talk non-stop for one hour?

He loves to waffle. Top tip, watch him on x 1.25 or even x1.5 speed, cuts the length down.

 

[Nice One Cyril]

Ally has spoken

Thanks for the mention Ally ?

 

[mil1lion]

Papers will report this as his farewell message

 

[Impspur1]

I love Ally but how on earth does one man talk non-stop for one hour?

And every night!

 

[VancouverSpurs]

This whole narrative that Conte's family is a factor pulling him away from Spurs is really bizarre considering that when he was hired, apparently it partly because his family (including his daughter) wanted to go back to London! (see https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/11/...nfluenced-his-decision-to-take-the-spurs-job/ for example).

 

[taidgh]

This whole narrative that Conte's family is a factor pulling him away from Spurs is really bizarre considering that when he was hired, apparently it partly because his family (including his daughter) wanted to go back to London! (see https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/11/...nfluenced-his-decision-to-take-the-spurs-job/ for example).

Nice find. Thanks ?

 

[DJS]

Journalists now suddenly seem to be going with angle that he is possibly homesick, whereas before he wanted to work in France with PSG lol.

And in terms of backing we’ve been told clearly on here was always the plan to do so.

So this cash injection was always part of the plan, not an attempt to keep him as likes of Matt Law are sensationalising it to be.

 

[PlayerX]

King

 

[austinfh]

- the meeting is just going to be Paratici and Conte discussing transfer targets
- Kane is excited about Spurs' ambition, and may be open to a new deal if we demonstrate that this summer
- mentions we are expected to move for Kostic

 

[Tucker]

- the meeting is just going to be Paratici and Conte discussing transfer targets
- Kane is excited about Spurs' ambition, and may be open to a new deal if we demonstrate that this summer
- mentions we are expected to move for Kostic

Seems to be good news after good news this week.

 

[MightySpurs]

What a transformation.

When Conte was appointed, I was buzzing telling all my friens we would be fighting for the title next season…

But I started loosing faith because of the continuous leave/I’m to good for yoy narrative- and with the same system that clearly wasn’t working at the time.

But I see now, it was all calculated propaganda from him.

I’m confident Levy will back him- and I’m confident he loves it here, eye to eye with the best managers in world football.

If he can hit strike with a few other signings as well, who knows what he can achieve nest season.

 

[spursfan77]

- the meeting is just going to be Paratici and Conte discussing transfer targets
- Kane is excited about Spurs' ambition, and may be open to a new deal if we demonstrate that this summer
- mentions we are expected to move for Kostic

Good news. I was about to post earlier how I thought this meeting and his future has been a red herring for a while.

Paratici going out there on his own without Levy is ideal from a transfer perspective. I'm sure it will be spun another way by someone (hi lurking Matt Law) but as we know it is best if Levy probably stays out of the way.

 

[Timberwolf]

There's a tiny part of me that was worried about him leaving for family reasons after reading the Telegraph article, but when you really think about it does it make any sense?

- He'd have to pay himself out of a huge contract, costing him millions and not doing much for his reputation as a reliable coach.
- He'd have to find another job in Italy. Milan, Inter and Juve look off the cards - who else could afford him that he'd want to go to? And would they back him like Spurs are promising to?
- If he did find another job in Italy he'd have to either rehouse his entire family to a new city anyway, or still only see them sporadically.
- After 6 months sweating blood to build a team and getting all the players on board, he'd have to start an entirely new project from scratch.

Then you consider the fact that Conte is still an obsessive, workaholic maniac. If he was in Italy, would he actually see a huge amount of his daughter anyway? I mean, he'd see her more than he does now, but all these top level football managers must work ridiculously long hours so it's hardly like they're family men doing the school run every other day or helping their kids with their homework. Then there's a match every weekend so that's not exactly family time.

One side factor that might help is the Winter World Cup. Presumably Conte can go home for a few weeks and spend time with family during that? Would Spurs seriously expect the rest of the squad to train as normal for the entire 6 weeks? Maybe but I doubt it.

 

[tony0379]