If these puns will become standard, I don't want him.You conte wait !!!
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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?
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If you asked the average Spurs fan after just having endured a Jose Mason duo whether or not they would take Conte and Paratici, I think most would bite your hand off for it.
Yeah seems like Hakimi could be beyond our reach tbf.
He’s someone we should have went hard for last summer when he was affordable and available. Top class attacking right back.
dont doubt the pull conte will have in the market, players will want to join. keeps kane if he gets faull backing with the signings he wants and we could be back to our best again. every manager is a gamble but deep down i know this is what tottenham needs to compete. no nice soft shells or weak characters we need winners we need players to believe in conte and conte will get the best out of many.
Oh for goodness sake, you and I and everyone in this forum have no idea why some of these deals do not get finalized. We just go by rumors and what is printed in one rag or another. In some cases players we are supposedly after we haven't even made contact with, but hey, if the Daily Mail says "Spurs chasing Messi" it must be true. And if Levy didn't sign him, it had to be because of his antics.
Do you have a documented, accurate history of all the negotiations that have ever gone on about players we supposedly were after and missed out on to base your "Levy has fucked up great deals" statement?
I'm not a Levy apologist, but I also find it pretty useless to make definitive statements without being in the know and having all the facts.
If Levy is bringing in this guy but doesn't have the funds to give him the players, after his experience with Mou, then he is the dumbest motherfucker to ever run a club. I can only assume there is money already accounted for and this director of football will actually have something to work with.
mourinho- im happy with the squad
conte- give me full backing
mourinho was with us for a payday conte will honestly be a breath of fresh air
Everyone knew that Pirlo and Barzagli were free but everyone thought they were finished. Pogba was known but no one wanted to aim for it. He can see business but he's not a numbers wizard. Rabiot and Ramsey were taken for € 0 but he gave them too high a salary: after Marotta's farewell he became CEO. In that according to him I have limits
Yes?Get in!!!
Pretty certain Conte is coming with a hefty transfer budget. No way do we appoint him and not back him. Levy knows full well the Spurs fans are turning on him and the board. This is Levy’s chance to turn it around. He simply has to provide this summer.
And we had a 50MM net spend last summer amidst a pandemic facing a year behind closed doors. And it was ~100MM the year before.
We are a rich club. Summer 2018 didn’t happen because we were poor, it’s because our sporting operation is run like dogshit.
Put someone who knows what they’re doing in charge and give them a license to sell some unwanted parts and we could really have a war chest to work with this summer when there will be lots of clubs desperate to sell.
Do these other staff gave interviews as well to see if they are suitable employees? In fact is there actually jobs available? Can anyone apply. This is typical of football croniesm jobs for your mates. We are interviewing conte for the managers job at THFC.! Afaik we are interviewing for any of these other positions. If Conte is holding out £20M which morning other manager is on and he hasn’t even won CL before then he should pay for these extra staff from his own pocket. He wants to have them not the club.
not sure where the strong ant git thinks his worth £20M! He may do a good job but is he really that good a coach, building teams etc?
Well, he kind of is. He results and underlying methods are not long-term, but they are extremely effective. He is legitately one of the 5 best managers in the world. All of my concerns are about the way the club structures itself and plans. I want much stronger institutions at the club so that it is properly protected from any one person. Levy has been great as a chairman in terms of financially managing the club and building its physical infrastructure. He has not been adequate on the footballing side for a decade. We need a Sporting Director to manage the squad and ensure players are found and moved on at the correct times. We also need other people working to ensure the Academy players are getting the loans and training they need, as well as strong scouting and coaching resources. I feel that stuff is the most important change we need to make. Hiring short term managers if fine if you have the club prepared to continue doing the other things it needs to do. Football is too complicated now to have one guy having total control. If we want Conte, fine, let’s do it. But do it in the way that actually works for Spurs both in the short term and the long term.
Not changed my vote since the start of this thread.
In a final attempt, I'm throwing my hat into the ring. It's going to cost you 20 million pennies (not pounds!) Mr Levy.
I'm sure that's got his attention
https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.c...talks-with-Woolwich-real-madrid-not-ogc-nice/
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JC, you are absolving the employer from any responsibilities of their own due diligence by only focusing on Conte and his responsibilities. the point of my analogy was understanding the nature of the beast with which you are getting involved. There is no top coach that is ignorant of what goes on at Spurs. FFS we went 18 mos with a signing...the first ever! The skinflintery is legendary.
If you are presuming to know what Conte would want then it stands to reason that were Levy to say "no, there will be no money spent and you will have to suffer Winksoko in the MF for your tenure" during his interview then he would decline. So it's only reasonable to assume that were he to take the position that he would have received adequate promise of support. Levy gets no pre-emptive pass. Even 'one of our own' is out here reminding us of the levy gentleman's agreement.
You taking up Sammys vacated role now? You know, spam the board blaming Poch for every one of humankind's ills? Who's your 'winner' for this managerial opening? We know how you desired that the last time...
Meet the man behind the 'signing of the century' who could join Conte at Tottenham — The i Paper
Paratici pulled off some audacious signings in Serie A, but he leaves Juventus with a mixed legacy
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Meet the man behind the 'signing of the century' who could join Conte at Tottenham
Paratici pulled off some audacious signings in Serie A, but he leaves Juventus with a mixed legacy
Next stop on Daniel Levy’s managerial train: a current serial winner. Unable to prise Mauricio Pochettino from Paris Saint-Germain, Tottenham Hotspur have held advanced talks with Antonio Conte to become their third boss in under two years.
The Italian is available after leaving Inter Milan in May, despite leading them to the Scudetto, his fifth title in nine years.
While not the “project” manager for whom Levy appeared to be on the lookout, it is a glittering CV which has attracted Spurs to another short-term solution. Conte has never managed any club for more than three years and the closest he came to building a dynasty was at Juventus.
One of his right-hand men in Turin, Fabio Paratici, is expected to follow him to north London if a deal is agreed. Spurs’ previous directors of football have had mixed results; Franco Baldini to Damien Comolli hardly a roaring success, Frank Arnesen impressive before his treachery in joining Chelsea.
By appointing Paratici, Levy would be sanctioning a wider upheaval at the highest echelons of the club, relinquishing a share of his own power.
That is not necessarily a wise move, however, explains Italian football consultant Chloe Beresford of Curva e Calcio. “Paratici worked well under [Juventus chief executive officer] Beppe Marotta – who he’d worked with previously at Sampdoria – and when Marotta left, he was put in sole charge of transfers,” Beresford told i.
“He did some good deals and some bad deals but really struggled with selling players and has been incapable of building a coherent squad. I’d say he’s a great talent spotter – for example Weston McKennie – but as a sporting director with full control I’m not sure he has what it takes.”
Paratici’s biggest deals
Cristiano Ronaldo (Signed from Real Madrid, £99m)
Gonzalo Higuain (Signed from Napoli, £81m)
Matthijs de Ligt (Signed from Ajax, £67.5m)
Arthur (Signed from Barcelona, £65m)
Joao Cancelo (Signed from Valencia, £36m)
Douglas Costa (Signed from Bayern Munich, £36m)
Paulo Dybala (Signed from Palermo, £36m)
Federico Bernadeschi (Signed from Fiorentina, £36m)
Danilo (Signed from Manchester City, £33m)
The 48-year-old spent 11 years with the Old Lady in various capacities. During that time, Juventus gained a reputation as shrewd movers in the market, primarily thanks to a number of high-profile free signings.
Andrea Pirlo was the very best of them, but there was Paul Pogba, too (an £89m mark-up was made when he was later sold to Manchester United, the same club who had relinquished him as a teenager). There was Dani Alves, Emre Can, and Sami Khedira too.
Paratici’s magnum opus came in 2018 when he achieved what countless of Juventus’ European rivals had failed to do and signed Cristiano Ronaldo. Pouncing on the Portuguese’s unhappiness at the Bernabeu, a price tag of €112m (£99m) for a 33-year-old was baulked at. It has since been vindicated somewhat by more than a century of goals and was hailed by Paratici, in his own words, as the “signing of the century”.
Matthijs de Ligt was another coup, snared from under the noses of Manchester United. Likewise, his £67.5m fee raised alarm when he initially struggled to settle, though he is still only 21.
With Massimiliano Allegri now in charge for a second time, Paratici left Juventus at the end of May as part of a restructuring following a fourth-placed finish. Tottenham are now embarking on a shake-up of their own with mounting pressure on Levy to get it right this time.