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Manager Antonio Conte

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I’m happy with this. I don’t want him here next season and don’t like the board so the best solution is for him to call all of them out before he leaves.

It's far from the forthright, all-out gunfight one would have hoped for in order to blow all the smoke away though is it......

"If only the club doctor would talk more...... I'd have signed a new deal and we'd be playing better"

Yeh, get to fuck, Antonio......... Gloves off or shut up and do your job.
 
Well.

Another previously successful manager expressing his frustration at the antics of the club.

Who could have possibly envisioned this.

14 months.

And all this after the jubilation of getting us Top 4.
 
Well let's be honest, we all knew how this was going to end. Enic pretending to be ambitions and getting a big name manager in was never going to work unless they were actually serious which was never happening.
 
Conte is 100% correct.

Why should he always have to explain?
I get his point, but it is the league standard.

It's not just at Spurs that it is almost exclusively the manager that faces the press. It is the same at all clubs.

The UK just has a very different footballing culture in that regard compared to the continent, where sporting directors, club execs or owners are the ones doing most of the talking.
 
Agree with a lot of what he says until something like this.

It should not be difficult to understand why fans are not happy. Our style is very different than other top teams. Many stats out there like field tilt show that. Does the club not have any analysts?
The club, as far as I know, has an entire department doing analytics that Paratici was put in charge of putting together.

The thing is I can totally see Conte completely ignoring it if it suits him. Or he only looks at individual player analysis like how many miles that Son covers in training or something like that.
 


Which makes it maddening that we're not signing some legs for LCB. Perisic, Hojbjerg, Dier Lenglet, Son, Kane as the centre-left side of your team is so slow off-ball, to turn, press, collect loose ball.
 
When we hired him, one of the things I was most excited about was his tendency to go mental and open his mouth.

His contract runs out in June. Any power ENIC might have to keep him quiet by sacking him and paying him to shut up is diminishing every month.
 
Conte is 100% correct.

Why should he always have to explain?

Cos that's the way it is over here......... OK, so he claims that for every game, the DOF & medics come out and talk (I'll take it at face value for now)....... Is it like that in Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal too?

.......Or is it only Italy (a place where the game seems to be even more of a media circus than it is over here!) that is so damn idyllic?

How many clubs in those leagues can afford to pay you 15m a year?

There's bigger things at play...... Stop fucking around (Ditto our board).
 
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