Where's this from? Isn't that gooner the only one saying this?
Ah hadn't seen all the new doubts in the Conte thread
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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?
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Ah hadn't seen all the new doubts in the Conte thread
No. If Levy does not get Poch or Conte he needs to be gone by the end of next week. We could have got Ten Hag days ago if that was the route we were going down. If that is the case take the £100m for Kane and take what you can get for our ambitious players and start the complete rebuild because we are going no where.
Time to open uncle joes wallet a bit more.
Zest how does the club feel about milkyways for morning snack?
Said this am Levy’s Chomped his way through the numbers, he thinks (I am resolved of blame, as Bob the books feeling here, give the guy a break with this ‘creative’ shit). Anyway, upshot he thinks he’s fudged it up. Trying to buy Ferrero Rochet for Buttons.
Depends if we actually provide the guy with the funds, time and/or players to allow him to do a good job.
Usually we do not.
Thank you. I believe it's difficult though as some managers refuse the DOF structure. Or a DOF they don't have experience of.
Wasn't it last year that Levy employed a director of operations (or sponsorship). To me it sounds like he's trying to get structures in place so he can focus on other parts of the business. Either commercial deals or the redevelopment of the surrounding area.
It's because we've missed out on trophies. We got tumbled by Leicester and Liverpool when our chance came along. I thought we were quite a good team even under Jose, and we lost/drew at least 6 matches that we should have won. The biggest disappointment was the way we played on our CL exist match. That day we looked small.
Sounds like Conte is getting cold feet.
It’s going to be Eddie Howe. Embrace it lads. Let his glory wash over you.
Oh fucking calm down. You bunch of melting cunts
Proof or you believing everything you read ?
give him all the backroom staff he wants and be done with it.
We've turned into a squad of absolute bottlers.
It's painful to watch them play utterly awful whenever there is something at stake.
Levy: Sissoko and winks must stay
Conte:Nah
Conte:Nah
It’s not about where he is it’s about the direction of the club. Brighton are small, big success for them is to stay in the prem and they have done that while playing great football both in attack and defence with very average players.
Potter and Ten Hag represent a long term project, working with players, young players in particular and developing a style of play (Pep style) on a tight budget. It’s Poch all over again, it’s a 5 year build to the top on a budget. But we know it works at this club because our owners are tight so we can’t do short cuts.
Conte is a superstar winner but he needs at least a good chance and that means big budgets and big spending for the here and now, it’s not long term, it a 2 year shot at winning the premier league before Conte has a meltdown.
If that’s the case let’s not fuck about persevering with conte yes it would be great if we could get him but we all know it’ll only ever be a short term appointment 18 months if we’re lucky, Go get the Ajax manager pay the release clause and let’s have an end to this never ending sagaSounds like Conte is getting cold feet.
It’s going to be Eddie Howe. Embrace it lads. Let his glory wash over you.
Look end of the day we get Conte then the club better have a stadium sponsor and investment because we will need I would guess £200m to spend (not including Kane who will be expected to stay) that doesn’t come from sales and any sales added to that amount. If we don’t we might as well call it off now, it’s all or nothing.
And if Conte is here the following season probably another £100m net spend on top at least.
And if Conte is here the following season probably another £100m net spend on top at least.
Conte is fantastic at rebuilds. One of the best in the world at developing players. Rebuilt Juve from mediocrity to guranteed champions for a decade, rebuilt Chelsea with Marcos Alonso and Victor Moses as key players for that squad, did the same for Inter Milan. Almost every player who plays under him develops and he has an amazing eye for finding players who suit his system. He is exactly what this club needs right now and I have no doubt we would be in a much healthier position if we appoint him and back him.
I watched quite a bit of Brighton this season and their football looks nothing like Peps. Sure they have alot of possession and do alot of passing but there is no aggression and their press is either awful or non existent. If anything it reminds me of the football we played under AVB. Lots of possession with lots of passes but no cutting edge. Would undo everything we built under Poch and set us back 15 years if we appoint Potter imo.
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 legacyapple.news
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.
I’d be shit scared if Paratici rocked up. No one in their right mind would offer Aaron Ramsey £400k a week