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This is, depressingly, correct.Saw this from a poster on redcafe but he's spot on, just show even other club fans can see it.
I'm not sure Conte was ever truly in the cards given their financial situation and the amount of surgery need on their roster. But they absolutely could have, and should have, sold Kane and just turned the keys over to someone like Potter or Ten Hag and told them to rebuild the squad.
The core problem at Spurs is that from the chairman down to the supporters they are all a bit delusional about the club's talent level. Beyond Kane and Son, there really just isn't a lot of higher end talent on the roster. In particular, they have almost none of the players you'd need to play a more progressive, technical football. They don't have any CBs who are particularly good with the ball. Their CMs are really poor technically, except for N'Dombele, but he has the worst engine in the PL, which is basically just disqualifying. Maybe Skipp will be good enough to build around but everybody else in midfield I'd be looking to move on from. And they quite literally don't have a real #10 or wide playmaker on the roster (Lo Celso really isn't one, as you can see from his total lack of end product) so they don't have players who are threats in attack but also can drop into midfield, give them solutions in possession when they are running out of ideas, and just generally be secure with the ball. The spine of their team simply can't play with the ball.
Jose Mourinho isn't an idiot. He saw this too and set the team up to play the only way it possibly might be successful.
But really they should just be looking to hire a new manager next summer and committing to a true rebuild.
With the exception of Lloris, Son and Kane (well, the player previously known as Kane), if you sneakily inserted any of our usual first team onto the team sheet of say, Watford, nobody would bat an eyelid. They'd look perfectly at home. And Watford are probably going to be in a relegation scrap this season. That's no disrespect to Watford either. They could easily have beaten us a few weeks ago.
So that's where we are. Watford quality players being often outplayed by actual Watford. Nuno could no more create a title challenging side with us than he could do with them.