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Manager Antonio Conte
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Fuck it, we're gonna win the CL and it's friggin Dier who gonna score the winning goal
if we had moved to a back 4 and brought in a Maddison type and a top centre half instead of Porro and Danjuma we would have been much better but Conte is too stubborn for that. I mean Yesterdays back 3 was horrific and also deprived us of an extra player in midfield which we are crying out for
It has already worked.
He got top 4 and we are 5th.
That is Spurs equivalent of winning the title and being 2nd right now.
Top 4 isn't out of reach this year either. We are nowhere near consistent enough but Newcastle are terrible and UTD are wobbling without Casemiro and Eriksen.
Remember if Chavs and dippers weren’t in such shit form we’d be 8?
He is inflexible because he doesn’t need to be flexible at other clubs. Nearly all elite managers are inflexible, if you don’t want that because you can’t afford the players don’t hire them.
As fans we think of good football or if not trophies as the goal but the clubs goal appeared to be CL qualification for the money so your right on that basis Conte has been a success from a club perspective.
They are though.
If we were in the form we ended last season, who knows where we'd be??
It's another topic but it's pretty clear we are seeing the effects of a mid season world cup on a lot of teams with players that went.
Not an excuse because it's the same for everyone but it's def a factor.
To an extent, but it’s mainly because they win stuff at these clubs.
We’re not winning, playing God awful football and have zero identity. So his inflexibility stands out.
And his defensive subs into a weird 4/2/4 is borderline trolling.
It’s never going to work.
You support Spurs, only way is to be on pills 24/7
Thing is your asking him to be something he is not. The idea was you bring him in, spend £400m and get him the players he needs, he wins the title and leaves.
We are treating him like an Eddie Howe project manager. Doesn’t work and that is on us not Conte. Levy thinks he can make Jose and Conte project managers, like asking a sushi chef to make Pizza.
How can he be considered elite when he can’t manage more than one game a week. Even that one game his “coaching” doesn’t exactly blow the opposition away. Ancelotti is far better manager and has won far more trophies and plays bettter football. Surprises me when people refer to elite managers his not often mentioned?
Totally agree with this.
Do you bring in Pep, give him poundland signings and expect to him to abandon tiki taka and play a low block and long ball football? Or Klopp?
There was no point bringing in Conte if you are going to act like Levy has with him.
All the fans asking Conte to change formation, change principles etc isnt going to happen.
For that reason his probably not a good fit for this club and if this is the way we are going to operate then bring in someone more aligned with that vision.
Yeah elite makes me laugh with all these coaches. Give Harry Redknapp £500m of talent and he'd have been elite. To me elite is Brian Clough winning titles and European cups with provincial clubs or Ferguson continually rebuilding every 4 or 5 years despite a decent budget. If you're an elite coach you improve players, otherwise you're a chequebook manager. So why we appointed a chequebook manager when its clearly completely at odds to the way we operate is beyond me.
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Can't see us getting rid whilst we're in the FA Cup and Champions League as well as still somehow in the race for top four.
Whilst many clubs beforehand have sacked manager, brought new ones midway through a season and won a cup (Tuchel, Di Matteo, Arteta etc). I don't see Levy doing it, especially after the Mourinho debacle.
Whilst many clubs beforehand have sacked manager, brought new ones midway through a season and won a cup (Tuchel, Di Matteo, Arteta etc). I don't see Levy doing it, especially after the Mourinho debacle.
We've bought back up forwards instead of first choice defenders. IIRC it was Conte wanting sub options and now he doesn't use them.
Edit... I can see us getting beat in Sheffield.
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Three days before a final is the most dangerous time for our managers.
Elite doesn’t mean great. Fergie for me is a far superior manager to Pep or Conte not just because of the vast amount of trophies he won but because he could work with elite and average players. Pep has never once show the ability to work with average and neither has Conte much (Victor Mosses aside).
Modern ‘’elite’’ managers often have only one play style and they try and perfect it. You think Conte is bad watch us with Pep never counter attacking and getting Skipp to play the De Bruyne role with Dier playing out from the back under pressure. In short modern elite managers are specialists.
Our club has no strategy and no elite squad so we are far more suited to a generalist manager or project type manager than an ‘’elite’’ one. Conte is not the problem, hiring Conte without understanding who he is is the problem. Conte will leave us and will win trophies with other clubs who do know how to use him.