Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

[WannaDanceWithUdogie]

Let's get to work.

 

[wiggo24]

Yessssss. Confirmation !

 

[McFlash]

I mean, apart from the fact that he's just got 4th and we've just announced a nice big war chest for him, he does still have a year left in his contract anyway (with an added year option).

I don't think there has ever really been much doubt that he'd stay for next season at least. Just the press getting their clicks in while they could.

 

[YB123]

hahahaha Matt Law must have been crying tweeting that out.

 

[PCozzie]

Let's get to work.

Thoughts and prayers with Matt Law though.

 

[easley91]

Not to sound arrogant, but I expected it. ?

 

[SpartanSpur]

Great news. Hopefully we can get some good transfer business done and then extend his deal (even if we just exercise the extra year option).

Assuming this was the big transfer summit hopefully we'll get some ITK later and moves will start to happen.

 

[Finchyid]

 

[sidford]

If he didn't have the appetite to stay at spurs given the players we have, facilities available to work in and also now the big cash funds for transfers this summer I couldn't see any other outcome. If he walked away from all these things then the major clubs that have decided not to appoint him in recent years would be even more reticent to if he did that as what else could he possibly want / demand.

 

[the yid]

I don't know why this is news

Not to sound arrogant, but I expected it. ?

 

[SpartanSpur]

He's high maintenance, but he's worth it. Exactly what the club has needed.

 

[Cavehillspur]

Was there ever any doubt, especially after sealing 4th?

 

[easley91]

I knew he'd stay since the NLD. I think he saw what this place COULD become. Getting 4th probably sealed it, but he must have had good feelings prior. Something special can happen here if we play the summer right, I think we all feel it.

 

[Legacy]

BREAKING NEWS:

Man carries on working.

 

[curlacious]

BREAKING NEWS:

Man carries on working.

While on a beach in Italy

 

[spursfan77]

hahahaha Matt Law must have been crying tweeting that out.

Had to be him didn’t it! I’m not having it as some sort of last minute decision, it’s obvious he’s been staying for months.

Law’s article:

Antonio Conte has handed Tottenham Hotspur and chairman Daniel Levy a huge boost by deciding he is ready to stay on as the club’s head coach.

Conte held talks with Tottenham’s managing director Fabio Paratici in Turin on Friday and is understood to now be preparing himself to remain in charge for next season.

The news will end speculation over the future of Conte, who spent four days deliberating over whether or not to stay at Spurs after leading the club back into the Champions League with last Sunday’s victory over Norwich City.

It will also be welcomed by the Tottenham dressing-room, including Harry Kane who is thought to be open to the idea of holding discussions over a new contract with Conte in charge of the team.

Paratici has promised Conte that Spurs will try to make at least six new signings this summer, with the majority of the £150 million invested into the club this week likely to go to the Italian.

Conte still believes there is a big job to do at Tottenham to make sure the club can compete in the Premier League and Champions League, having secured what had seemed like an unlikely fourth-place finish and qualification.

But Tottenham have demonstrated enough ambition to convince Conte that it is worth him staying to embark on what will be his first full season at the club.

As long as Spurs and Paratici are good to their word, then Conte will now spend the summer trying to build a squad that he believes will be able to cope with the dual demands of the Premier League and Champions League.

Tottenham are already on the brink of signing Fraser Forster as the club’s new back-up goalkeeper and Conte has targeted two new wing-backs, a centre back, a midfielder and a forward who can operate off the left.

Conte signed a one-and-a-half-year contract, which includes an option to extend it by a further 12 months, at Tottenham when he succeeded Nuno Espirito Santo last November. The former Chelsea coach has done an incredible job since returning to the Premier League.

 

[Guernman]

BREAKING NEWS:

Man carries on working.

well it wasn't me ... I was on here

 

[hellava_tough]

He's high maintenance, but he's worth it. Exactly what the club has needed.

Yeah, he's like dating a super-fit crazy girlfriend

 

[mil1lion]

It must be great for him to go from a year ago being told Inter must sell and he can't build to this year 150m added to the kitty and the chance to build his team.

 

[Serpico]

Ive always felt Conte is happy at Tottenham-