• The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...

    Get involved!

Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?

Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports

Who would be your first choice?

  • Graham Potter

  • Scott Parker

  • Ten Hag

  • Rafa Benitez

  • None of the above - comment below

  • *Marcelo Bielsa

  • *Ralf Rangnick

  • *Ralph Hasenhüttl

  • *Steven Gerrard

  • *Julen Lopetegui

  • *Christophe Galtier

  • *Marcelo Gallardo

  • *Oliver Glasner

  • *Ryan Mason

  • *Maurizio Sarri

  • *Gian Piero Gasperini

  • *Mauricio Pochettino

  • *Antonio Conte

  • *Eddie Howe

  • *Gareth Southgate

  • *Nuno Espirito Santo

  • *Paulo Fonseca

  • *Gennaro Gattuso

  • *Ernesto Valverde

Results are only viewable after voting.
Tomo said:
Agree but this is on Levy. If we are not in a financial position to support a Conte we should never have gone down that route and raised fan expectations. Ten Hag and Potter are the obvious development/project managers to pick (other than Poch) with proven project development skills working with young players, tight budgets playing progressive Pep style football. I had no issue with either of them and they IMO would do well with us.

Conte is a superstar manager who would need a superstar budget, that means big transfers and big wages. You don’t go down that route unless you are serious about the financial backing.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
At this point if it doesn't happen then It was an indeed a huge waste of time. Conte wouldn't have even considered the opportunity if he wasn't serious, so anything holding it up is likely not unreasonable or at least expected if you are bringing Conte in (financial backing, keeping Kane).

If that was not the plan then why bother? Get Ten Hag or Potter or Rangnick and create a five-year plan.

I can understand why Levy would want to go after Conte - you don't turn down the opportunity for the 3rd or 4th best manager in the world - but if you are going for it you have to be prepared to actually go for it.
 
Matt1882 said:
If I'm Daniel Levy and I'm serious about Conte and taking the club to the next level, I'm gonna get on the phone to Kane this morning and say;
You're the best striker in Europe. If you weren't at Spurs, I'd buy you for Conte. If we bring him in, does this prove we're serious about this?

If Kane says yes, I'd be going all in on Conte. Salary? Yep. Staff? Yep. Transfer budget? Yep. All of the things.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
If you're Levy the first thing you'll do is reverse the charges.
 
People are rating him as 3rd to 5th best in the world.

Is he behind Guardiola? He's spent a billion quid at city and failed to win the CL.
Is he behind Klopp? Scraped into the CL in the last days this season.
Who else is there that could be above Conte?
 
Matt1882 said:
People are rating him as 3rd to 5th best in the world.

Is he behind Guardiola? He's spent a billion quid at city and failed to win the CL.
Is he behind Klopp? Scraped into the CL in the last days this season.
Who else is there that could be above Conte?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Yes he’s behind Guardiola. Yes he’s behind Klopp.

You’re welcome.
 
Teoff Gate said:
Agree with others that this has a very Dybala vibe to it

That and the january window where we supposedly went running around Spain with a pot of money throwing in "Phoney" bids for Aguero , Rossi etc

This whole process has gone on for far too long , bordering on complete embarrassment , if we do get Conte then you can say it will be justified but if we don't then the club has reached new levels of incompetence
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
It's been a week since Spurs made contact with Conte's agent, during which time Conte also had talks with Madrid and PSG. Substantive talks with Conte started 3 days ago.

It feels like it's taken forever because the media are much more privy to the negotiations because Spurs and Conte's camp are leaking everything.

Mourinho didn't just roll up and sign a contract - that was in the works for weeks - we just didn't hear about it.
 
Apologies if someone else has picked this up but an Italian Journo, Tancredi Palmeri, who I’ve never heard of before is saying that the deal has stalled although Conte’s personal terms have been agreed Levy not happy with the proposed transfer budget
Conte has given Levy until Monday to make his mind up!

I hadn’t read ArcspacE ArcspacE post before posting so maybe the same source
 
Bazali said:
an Italian Journo, Tancredi Palmeri, who I’ve never heard of before
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
He's a fat WUM ala Moody

images
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top