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So he doesn't want to use the academy at all...
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So he doesn't want to use the academy at all...
He's really getting on my tits.
How's about yous try developing some first-teamers, Tony?
He's only saying what we all want.
Jam tomorrow isn't working.
Or we could just make sure they get decent loans like the other big clubs do?
Man City, Chelsea, even man Utd loan out their young players to develop at other clubs until they are first team ready. We used to do it too (eg. Kyle Walker) in the not too distant past.
Spurs set for fresh Conte contract talks
Tottenham Hotspur are set for fresh talks with Antonio Conte this week over a new long-term contract. Spurs want to tie Conte to a new deal, as his current one expires at the end of this season. Talks started before the World Cup and were initially expected to resume last week, but managing...
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Tottenham set for fresh Antonio Conte contract talks this week
Spurs want to tie Conte to a new deal, as his current one expires at the end of this season.
Talks started before the World Cup and were initially expected to resume last week, but managing director of football Fabio Paratici was busy. Now, they are scheduled to start again from today.
The Athletic reported in October that talks had already opened between Daniel Levy and Conte’s team over a new contract, with confidence at the club that Conte would sign a long-term deal on improved terms.
This week’s talks will not only be about the terms of any potential new contract, the salary, the length of the deal and the potential break clauses. Also on the table will be Tottenham’s ambitions and plans for the forthcoming January transfer window, with Conte especially keen to know that the club shares the same ambition to win that he does.
Conte only signed an 18-month contract when he signed for Tottenham in November 2021, although there is an option for the club to extend it by another year. Last season, he successfully steered them to fourth place in the Premier League. Spurs are currently also fourth, with 29 points from 15 games.
Exactly we stopped under Poch when he thought he could turn water into wine. If he'd been in charge of Kanes development it would not have gone the way it has. Conte's right. We all so did this with Danny Rose at Sunderland.
Get Sarr and Gil out on loan.
We started again under Jose
Spurs in contract talks with Antonio Conte as January transfer plans examined
Tottenham will hold talks with Antonio Conte this week about his future and what comes next for Spurs ahead of the January transfer window openingwww.football.london
What a good old time with the missus does to a man
Or we can just do what Conte wants and see how that works out?
He’s the boss and should live or die by his decisions.
I suspect that is what he wants. Options he is going to use rather than ones who he isn’t.
Beastie Boy fan.
Steady on , what’s it got to do with me?
Spurs in contract talks with Antonio Conte as January transfer plans examined
Tottenham will hold talks with Antonio Conte this week about his future and what comes next for Spurs ahead of the January transfer window opening
He's just like all of us, starts to feel a lot better when Spurs haven't been playing for a while! :contelol:
watching the last 15 or whatever against motherwell, they looked terrible especially at the back. possibly devine the only one with any promise from the lot that came on for the last 15, but when youre playing in midfield and surrounded by poor players in every direction youll struggle yourself no matter who you are.
Alasdair Gold has claimed that frustrations are starting to grow with Antonio Conte within the Tottenham Hotspur academy.
Alasdair Gold claims Spurs academy frustrated with Conte
Alasdair Gold has revealed that people within Tottenham Hotspur’s academy are frustrated with Antonio Conte’s lack of desire to play young players.
thisisfutbol.com
Speaking on the Gold and Guest Talk Tottenham podcast, Gold claimed Spurs must ensure there’s a pathway for their young players, or they’ll be looking to leave amid the frustration.
He said: “From what I understand, there’s a little bit of a frustration, more in the academy side of things that this pathway doesn’t really seem to be there.
“Where Conte differs with previous managers at Tottenham is Conte’s belief is very much [that] it’s the role of the academy and the academy staff to develop the young players there to be in a position that they can slot straight into his squad if he needs to use them.
“So his role is less on the development side of the young players and that’s more to do with the academy staff’s role.
“I can understand his logic… however, we also know that there’s a lot of managers out there who take a great deal of pleasure in being that final stage of development for young players. And it’s very difficult to see how an 18-year-old or 19-year-old can be developed at an academy level to be ready to slot straight into a Premier League/Champions League-challenging football team.
“That, for me, doesn’t entirely match up.”
Basically this right here. Conte's literal take on this issue seems fairly absurd. When I first read it I took it as some kind of tricky zen comment about how the idea was basically impossible. "Like a camel passing through the eye of a needle" biblical type stuff.
With the way Conte is I think we'll be lucky to carry one talented younger player in his very short rotation. The rest will need to have their "final stage of development" while on loan. Speaking of which, we really need a feeder club like 2 or 3 years ago...
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