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Manager Antonio Conte

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zin said:
Conte is exactly what we need at this club. Proper mentality, hates to lose, wants to fix the situation. Shows the right emotions and quite frankly I want to see this in public so I know what the feeling at the club is.

Anyone saying his tactics were wrong or he's not good enough need to give their head a wobble. If you think a change of manager is going to make a difference you're delusional. We've brought in a top coach, as far as I can see he's been backed and as long as he continues to be backed we will have a Klopp situation where we will be successful with the right players brought in.

I'm not writing off this season either.
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It’s ok to challenge his tactics, he’s got things wrong and I’m damn sure he will be questioning his decisions and seeking advice / opinion from his team too

Completely agree re everything else. He’s the polar opposite of Levy and he should leave asap for his own good
 
tottcontekane said:
Yeah maybe cause he got no other choices? We get injured and on top of that, our squad is a paper thin.
Also holy **** if you truly believe Winks is our only problem, and that we are constantly losing cause of him.
This is ridiculous. It's a team problem, like 90% of the players are just not good enough, and this is with 5 different manager already.
Maybe our other options are worst, and thats why we use Winks ?

Let me remind to all of you, the stats before Conte arrived, we were dead last on chance created, bottom in terms of goals conceded, and also enemy team chance created was huge, and also we were dead last in terms of total KM run. We were the laziest team in the whole damn league, before Conte arrived.

And maybe that explain why he play x or y players, h?

And btw Winks didn't play when we lost to Woolwich 3-1, or the 3-0 against United.
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play a player out of position, tanganga would do a better job in midfield than winks as at least hed offer aggression. kulu would of been better last night as it needed someone who can pick a pass with a bit of quality.

winks isnt the only problem but hes by far the biggest. get that little weasel sorted first then things will be a hell of a lot brighter. i honestly think the morale of the side suffers massively when hes out there because hes so incompetent. his style of play sucks any enthusiasm out of the side, then he might as well not be there when we havent got the ball. its nothing but football suicide having him in midfield. its been so glaring obvious for years that its fukcing painful. conte, if he had done his homework and watched our games before he came would of seen this. theres a clear pattern..winks plays and we stink
 
Gazzapen said:

People are trying to decipher what Conté is feeling. It's not rocket science its quite clear.

"The players are always the same, the club has changed the coaches, but the players are always the same and the results don't change.

"I repeat, I am too honest to accept this type of situation and for sure we will make an assessment with the club. It is not right, not good everybody to continue to lose. I can't accept this, it is not good for no one."
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He's pretty much saying exactly what many of us have been saying for years, while up against a barrage of apologetic nonsense from the ENIC / Levy cultists.

Our problem isn't, and never has been, the numerous managers that have walked in and out the door. It's the utter lack of support those managers receive and the complete disregard of our football team shown by the owners
 
Somebody said:
Conte seems like a great fit. Everybody likes him and it feels like it could be a great new project. I'm already in. The football has been exciting again. All the parts are there. But he isn't gonna stay without big backing. I really hope they back him and it starts to look good, 'cos if he stays with backing we could actually do well again!
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I don't think Conte was ever going to be a great fit. In fact, I can't think of a worse fit than Conte and Spurs right now. This was all so very predictable:



This guy has bitched and whined about players at every club he's been at - and has left bigger and better clubs and situations than us/this because of his demands to be given the toys to be the best, and we have an owner and business model that is very incompatible with that. I’m not saying he’s always wrong or he’s not a good coach, but if you’re leaving league dominating teams like Juve, Chelsea and Inter because they can’t meet your demands, then the marriage with spurs was always likely to be rocky, no?

I think appointing Conte was "ambitious" but was a massive mistake by Levy/Paratici, it might have given the fans an instant lift but it also raised expectations unrealistically and was always going to bite them on arse very hard.


Somebody said:
Something just doesn't feel quite right at the mo though. To me, I think the Newcastle takeover was the moment things changed. No club can compete with what Newcastle have and it won't be long before Newcastle are up there at the top with City and Chelsea. If you're looking at the league now, unless there's a change of approach at Spurs, we're just gonna become one of the other 5 or 6 teams, aiming for a possible 4th place, without the financial clout to go for it every year like we did for a while under Poch. We were pushing to be one of the big boys back then... That push now seems a lot less realistic in the long run with the likes of Newcastle being able to bulldoze their way to the top. Unless there's a change of approach at Spurs, I feel like realistically, we might have to return to looking at 6th, 7th, 8th in the league again.... maybe 4th if we have a good year... Hope I'm wrong about all that, but money talks and Newcastle, Chelsea and City all have obscene money...
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This is why people have to understand why building the stadium was so important and smart. Unless we get bought by an oil state (and having great infrastructure makes that more likely not less IMO), it is the only way we are going to stand a chance of at least keeping our heads on par with the Woolwich's and Liverpool's and above the Leicester's, Wolves etc.

Obviously the caveat is, we still have to use the money wisely (smarter than we have been for the last few years for sure). But the stadium, and it's ability to generate huge revenue for the club, is absolutely vital - at least until (big fucking if) we are bought by an arabic sovereign wealth fund.

But we have yet to complete a full "normal" season in this stadium, it's not going to change everything overnight.

Being somewhere between 3rd and 8th is the reality for all of us bar City right now. An exceptional set of circumstances (some of them external and outside our control) might buck that above or below some years. But that's hardly a catastrophic place to be. Doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to be the best version p[ossible and it's fair to criticises overt mistakes by everyone from Levy, coach and players etc - that's all part of the fun, no?
 
I feel in a really dark place about the club today.

Angry at the club
Angry at Levy
Angry at ENIC
Angry at the players
Angry at Conte for some of his tactics and selections

Does this fucking club have any coherent vision on how we get better?!?!
 
Gazzapen said:
"Said before but the financial dopin the EPL has stunted our growth ...."

Are you serious? You got to be kidding. Levy spending all the money on a Bloody NFL Stadium and nothing real on players, that has stunted our growth. We were one of the most profitable clubs in the league. Our market value has multiplied ten fold since 2001

I'm 100% sure you on the Spurs Payroll. Either that or you are in some seriously need of help. 'Shift in Domestic Landscape....' my ass. We are one of the most valuable clubs in the world, with nothing more than an average team.
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You're wasting your time and energy on this idiot, mate....just put him on ignore like the rest of us.
 
Gazzapen said:
"Said before but the financial dopin the EPL has stunted our growth ...."

Are you serious? You got to be kidding. Levy spending all the money on a Bloody NFL Stadium and nothing real on players, that has stunted our growth. We were one of the most profitable clubs in the league. Our market value has multiplied ten fold since 2001

I'm 100% sure you on the Spurs Payroll. Either that or you are in some seriously need of help. 'Shift in Domestic Landscape....' my ass. We are one of the most valuable clubs in the world, with nothing more than an average team.
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Don’t waste your time mate - he gets paid to troll on behalf of ENIC
 
AlabamaSpur said:
Not surprised. I figured he was either trying to send a message to them or to Levy.
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