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It may be naive, but I tend to assume the manager is playing the players he believes give him the best chance of winning. Don't think Conte is trying to get sacked.So he plays Royal!
Conte has seen both of them.
Yeah, that's what you want to believe because you want to believe football is the soap opera that talkshite sells you. But it's most likely just the boring reality that Conte doesn't trust Spence.
Never once heard that on TS but I have seen 21 years of Levy’s soap opera close up and I think that’s far more likely than Conte rating Royal over Spence
Right. Again, because you want to believe that the manager is in constant strife with Levy because Levy is the root of all evil and Levy is destroying Tottenham with profiteering.
I don’t think it’s constant strife. I do think there was / is a disconnect re: Spence
I think Conte is here for another 17 months, at least. He's stated multiple times it would take several windows for him to have the squad he wants to compete for silverware with. He wouldn't have said that if he was planning to be off at the end of the season.
In my humble opinion you are placing way too much stock on his utterances. He will want serious backing. He is emotionally volatile how he feels today can change and going by his history damn quickly. Factor in his family situation I'm very confident in my assertions. I give him 15 months tops, time will see who is correct. Saying he wouldn't have said this if....Well if you look at his history he's said a bunch of things and done the exact opposite. I believe he meant every word....at the time
I don't know, much is made out of his short stints but I think in many instances its overplayed. He left Atalanta because he was being literally threatened to the point of requiring security by ultras. He left Siena for his dream job. He left Juve at a peak for another dream, coaching the Italian national team. He left the Italian national team because, once he got under the hood he realized how incredibly difficult succeeding with Italy was going to be. Turned out right, they failed to qualify for 2020. Then he was sacked in short order at Chelsea like everyone is. Finally he left Inter because they were skint.
It was definitely a huge factor. A young kid we just bought and Conte came straight out and said it wasnt his choice and was a club buy which was super weird.
Big big time coming up for Levy. No where to go. Hope your boy is ready. That January window and summer is gunna be nasty
It’s going to be popcorn. I dont expect him to come through and I think Conte will walk before end of Jan.
