Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

[cliff jones]

sorry what decision is this? I'm a bit behind.

 

[Tucker]

sorry what decision is this? I'm a bit behind.

New eight year contract for Winks.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

sorry what decision is this? I'm a bit behind.

decision to stay at Spurs next season

 

[cliff jones]

decision to stay at Spurs next season

last time I looked there was little if any doubt. Maybe Conte himself is encouraging some speculation to make sure this £150m isn't spent even in part "off the pitch"? Or one third of it doesn't disappear on "last year's" signings?

Or the media is simply feeding itself as usual

 

[razor1981]

last time I looked there was little if any doubt. Maybe Conte himself is encouraging some speculation to make sure this £150m isn't spent even in part "off the pitch"? Or one third of it doesn't disappear on "last year's" signings?

Or the media is simply feeding itself as usual

The 'doubt' has mostly stemmed from Conte's comments in the post-match presser on Sunday, though many simply see this as a continuation of what he's been saying ever since he arrived - i.e. that he's happy to commit only if the club's ambitions match his own:

I'm under contract until next summer. I signed for one year and seven months, I've enjoyed a lot my time at Tottenham because, I repeat, for me it was a big challenge. To come in during the season, for a coach like me, is not easy. It was a big challenge in a modern club with a fantastic stadium and training ground.

For me this is a trophy and I'm very happy. Then we'll see. I always said at the end of the season we'll speak to the club and find the best solution for me and the club.

In this moment it was very difficult to speak about [next season]. I'm very tired. I was really focused to get this big achievement.

It's very, very difficult to reach a place in Champions League. I have to consider this a really big, big achievement for me and for my players. And also for the club to consider this a big achievement... after three years Tottenham is able to play again in the Champions League.

Despite the fact I didn't lift a trophy, for me it is a big achievement, for me in a short time and short period in a difficult situation I worked a lot with my players to bring this club to play in the Champions League.

I want to consider this qualification like a trophy. In my mind, my heart and my head I know what we did in these seven months. Me, my staff and the players. I want to celebrate and we'll have time to speak with the club about everything.

Now there's a lot of emotions in my mind and my heart, for me, for the club and for everybody.

For this reason, it'll be very good to rest for four or five days and then have a good meeting with the club to find the best possible solution.

 

[cliff jones]

The 'doubt' has mostly stemmed from Conte's comments in the post-match presser on Sunday, though many simply see this as a continuation of what he's been saying ever since he arrived - i.e. that he's happy to commit only if the club's ambitions match his own:

thanks mate, somehow I'd not focused on this- think I was floating on a cloud of relief and looking forward to having to get up in the middle of the night to watch all the games. I agree it still sounds like leverage to me.

It's good there's only really PSG out there supposedly looking, or rather Mbappe is working this out on behalf of his employer

 

[spursfan77]

The 'doubt' has mostly stemmed from Conte's comments in the post-match presser on Sunday, though many simply see this as a continuation of what he's been saying ever since he arrived - i.e. that he's happy to commit only if the club's ambitions match his own:

In the same press conference he says he has a contract until next summer. I take this as meaning he will be here. He has made similar comments about his contract before yet the press never seem to focus on it.

 

[ChaoticBeaver]

In the same press conference he says he has a contract until next summer. I take this as meaning he will be here. He has made similar comments about his contract before yet the press never seem to focus on it.

They’d have nothing to write about/speculate on.

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

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

done another one today, god bless that man

 

[Spriggan]

Levy has a reputation and Conte is playing him at his own game.

They both have reputations that are driven by the media, DL as a tightfisted hard negotiating CEO, and AC as a whiny give me what I want or else I'll walk, coach! Truth is, they are both at the top of, or extremely close to, their respective jobs. They are both elite "players" and as such are laser focused planners, driven by ego with a small amount of sociopathic tendencies thrown in who will settle for nothing less than the perfect end result they crave. When I look beyond the media BS I see two highly successful individuals who have a healthy respect for each other that precedes AC's appointment back in November '21, and has grown deeper over the past 7 months as the team has been transformed into a winning unit.

To me this relationship has, since day one, been, to a degree, a "prove it to me" one, and now that the season is over and CL has been secured for next season (something that @Hercules and @Trix have always maintained was never the make or break goal) DL and the Board are comfortable backing Conte because he's proven himself to be capable of transforming a dispirited squad into one with a winning mentality.

DL has said on many occasions that the new stadium would be a game changing revenue generator that would allow the club to invest significant money into the squad so we can compete at the top of the table. Unfortunately the pandemic hit, which no one could foresee, and slowed our revenue to a trickle, but with how the stadium debt has been structured the impact of the loss of revenue has been largely mitigated, leaving the club in a much healthier position than many others. Further to this, DL has always said that our club has to be built on a sustainable business model, one where the club finances itself and doesn't rely on continued injections of cash like Chelsea or City.

With the restructuring of senior management earlier last year (the appointment of FP, DL stepping back from hands on player negotiations) we are beginning to see what DL has had in mind for the club. Has he made mistakes along the way, hell yeah he has, but then show me a CEO who hasn't! I, too, get frustrated when it seems we're being cheap by not paying what's needed to get the talent the team requires to take us to where we all want to be, but when I look at it as a business owner I see why that has many times been necessary (although there have been some head-scratching fuck ups along the way).

I think DL and the board are finally getting it right, and I think AC, for all the negative media and the spin they constantly regurgitate, is happy with this/his project. Now the "prove it to me" part of the relationship is squarely on DL and the board, and it looks like they are delivering on it.

In short, they are both playing each other at their own game, it just happens to be pretty much the same one.

The futures bright, the future's Lilly-white! COYS!!

 

[spursfan77]

Sounds like the meeting with paratici today went well



?⚪️ Summit between Fabio Paratici and Daniel Levy at #Tottenham : positive outcome, the 150 million pounds of capital increase useful for the market are important towards the confirmation of Antonio Conte. Who asked the club for 4-5 starting signings. #THFC

 

[McFlash]

By all accounts, his daughter is doing her exams, so that is probably the only reason his family are still in Italy. You don't disrupt your child's education for the sake of a few months apart.

It's been reported before that his wife and kid love life in London so I doubt they've got any qualms about moving over once the schooling is done.
Jeez, it's not like they can't afford to nip back and forth for visits whenever they like.

 

[Aphex]

 

[tony0379]

 

[spursfan77]

Cheer up Jack, it's good news.

Antonio Conte to stay at Tottenham

Antonio Conte has decided he will remain at Tottenham Hotspur for the upcoming 2022-23 season. Conte and Fabio Paratici met in Turin on Friday. The Athletic revealed earlier on Friday that Tottenham Hotspur were increasingly confident of keeping the Italian at the club. Conte and Paratici held...

theathletic.com

Antonio Conte and Fabio Paratici are meeting in Turin on Friday, with Tottenham Hotspur increasingly confident of keeping the Italian as head coach for next season.

Conte and Paratici are holding the long-planned meeting to discuss his Tottenham future and Spurs’ plans in the summer transfer market.

Ever since Conte joined in November 2021, signing an 18-month contract, he has held back from promising that he would be at the club for the 2022-23 season, talking instead about the importance of comparing his “vision” with that of the club at the end of the season, before deciding his future.

Even at the end of this season, sources familiar with Conte’s thinking said that he had not decided whether he would stay at Tottenham or not. Finishing in fourth place and returning to Champions League football was important, but it was always a necessary rather than a sufficient condition for Conte to stay.

Conte also needed to know that there would be money to spend this summer, to make the team competitive for next season. Conte often sounded as if challenging for fourth place was beneath him. Next season, he will want to aim higher than that.

But now Conte has gone to Turin, Paratici’s base in Italy, the city where Conte and Paratici worked together at Juventus, to discuss Tottenham’s next steps. The feeling is that Conte will now be there next season.

This was not necessarily going to be an easy summer market for Tottenham. They have payments due on Cristian Romero, Rodrigo Bentancur and Sergio Reguilon, as well as a decision to make on whether to trigger the option to buy Dejan Kulusevski, or wait until next year.

While Spurs have squad players they can sell to raise funds — such as Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso — this is not going to be an easy market to offload players, either.

This is why Tuesday’s announcement that ENIC would be making a £150million equity injection into the club was so potentially significant. Not only will it give Paratici more flexibility in the transfer market, but it would also show Conte — and the broader public — that Levy was doing everything possible to make this work.

Tottenham are very well set up for Conte now. They have the best stadium and training ground in the country, a squad that has already bought into his ideas, world-class players in Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, exciting youngsters in Kulusevski and Romero, and of course Champions League football back next season.

With the stadium revenue starting to flow in this season, the medium-term prospects for Conte are looking good.

 

[Russ1201]

Sounds like the meeting with paratici today went well



?⚪️ Summit between Fabio Paratici and Daniel Levy at #Tottenham : positive outcome, the 150 million pounds of capital increase useful for the market are important towards the confirmation of Antonio Conte. Who asked the club for 4-5 starting signings. #THFC

4-5 players thought it was 6?

 

[hughy]

4-5 players thought it was 6?

The translation says 4-5 starters, which is about right when you consider Lloris, Dier, Romero, Bentancur, Son, Kane and Deki are definite starters next season. Probably Hojbjerg too.

 

[spursfan77]

More of the same from Mokbel but worth positing as he was the one who broke the Conte coming to us story first.

 

[Johnny J]

The translation says 4-5 starters, which is about right when you consider Lloris, Dier, Romero, Bentancur, Son, Kane and Deki are definite starters next season. Probably Hojbjerg too.

If Skipp comes back strong I could see him displacing Hojbjerg. I don't have stats to back it up, but I think he's already nearing or exceeding Hojbjerg's level.

 

[SpartanSpur]

More of the same from Mokbel but worth positing as he was the one who broke the Conte coming to us story first.

Promising from that side of things. Not very enamoured with the list of players towards the end though (after Bastoni, Perisic, Spence).