He is certainly meeting the objectives ENIC set for him every year just sadly they have nothing to do with winning trophies.
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Manager Antonio Conte
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Of course it would. Appointing someone as a figurehead is easy. Pay someone at the top quite a bit of money but don't put in the groundwork to actually be successful, it's been our MO since Levy hired Jose.
We show our true ambition with the mediocre players we keep around & the type of players we still target. Yes Conte should be doing better & I'm not a fan of his coaching, but he's absolutely correct to say that he will be ANOTHER in a long line of managers who ultimately fail here. And that's not just bad luck or coincidence.
Sat here still starting Hojbjerg, Forster, Davies & Dier .. footballers who wouldn't look out of place at a team battling relegation .. we get what we deserve.
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This. Wanted both out before it became fashionable. We're stale from top to bottom, 23 years is just too long to be involved in anything and ultimately the buck stops with them, the football we've played for 4 seasons is 15 years out of date and 50% of this squad are long past their sell by date. Total bloody purge is needed and the only way to do that is for ENIC to sell the club.
He's saying what most fans have been feeling since 2018.
He says that the players shouldn’t do this to the fans. It’s in the video I posted above.
I guess I just disagree with a lot of this. We shifted out a LOT of players that we spent a LOT of money on, at Conte's request.
Ndombele, Lo Celso, Rodon, Winks, Reguilon, Gil, Spence, Doherty, etc. are all not here because Conte didn't want them here. You won't get me saying most or any of those are decent players, but it's just simply not possible to get rid of every single player in the club in 1-2 windows because the manager doesn't fancy them.
We brought in a lot of players specifically for him as well, some of which have been big mistakes.
You can talk about Hojbjerg, Dier, etc. but those seem to be players that Conte LIKES and WANTS to play. They are literally nailed on starters for him.
Again, you can quibble with me on some of the details, but to act like the club didn't do at least a decent job of trying to make it work for Conte is silly.
There's a lot of things not right at the club, the players and owners included. But Conte failed at HIS job, a job he is paid a ton of money to do.
Nope.
Poch turned into a stubborn arsehole and refused to change things that weren't working.
And that's coming from his #1 fanboy, in the beginning.
"Tottenham's story is this - 20 years there is this owner and they never won something. Why?" Conte said.
Second half of this evaded those circulating all the quotes so far.......
He's proper pissed at the players....... "Why must the manager and the club take the blame?"
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"Why must the manager and the club take the blame?"
For this alone. I am going to say. Well done Antonio. Well done. And I would much rather a manager with that passion than the shit house bastards on the board who don’t get what it’s like for the fans.
Finally he’s said it how it is with these players.
Post match and most weeks I feel so much frustration I say things like “he needs to go”. He is this, he is that. But ENIC set the culture.
They set it week one when they sacked George Graham a week or two before a massive semi final. And year on year it’s terrible terrible decisions after terrible decisions. And manager after manager gets blamed while Levy keeps getting rich by destroying what it means to be Spurs. He’s the bastard who is behind every single mistep and mishap for 22 years.
Rips the soul out of the club and keeps on keeping on with employees who are mediocre at best. ENIC Out. Conte. Will be gone. But thank you for speaking out
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Exactly the reason you need to rebuild instead of reloading...the culture gets passed down. All the more reason we should have cut off the head 2 seasons ago.
Conte is right. We have a culture problem at the club. It is one characterised by frailty. By weakness. It's why Kane has yet to show up in a big game. He is the embodiment of our club: lots of good attributes but weak when it matters.
"They are used to it here. Don't play for something important."
- Conte, when asked why the players are like this.
AKA culture set at the club is the reason the players are like this. Coupled up with him directly saying "20 years these owners and no trophies" and it's pretty fucking clear he's criticising the ownership as WELL as the players.