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Manager Antonio Conte

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Manager to intense
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Yep. Spurs is a vacation resort for the average player who doesn’t give a shit about winning.
 
Our poor little players, how can they be expected to twy deir bestest when the mangerywanangery is only there for a few monfs.

Cunts. Harry Kane has still banged in 21 league goals, the others ain't up to it. They lack ability and/or professional pride, just getting paid and going through the motions. Kane being the exception, which is why he wants out

I have come to the conclusion that player recruitment is everything. When we had a good crop of players, Poch was great with us. When the squad went into decline, so did Poch.

Unless the manager is particularly bad (Ramos for example), I don't think they are as important as we tend to think. Ancelotti with Everton players, shit. With Real Madrid players, he's the don. Same as Conte with us, failed. Everywhere else, a success.

Our players are, in many areas of the pitch, fucking gash. Take Kane out, the spine of the team is mid table at best. We are a team without a core of players. Paratici has been better than Hitchen, but I'm still unconvinced by our recruitment.
As you say , player recruitment is vital , just look at little old Brighton , their recruitment really does put our lot to shame . There is talent out there and you don’t have to break the bank . Our mistakes in the transfer market has lumbered us with deadwood we are struggling to offload which is continuing to hurt us deeply .
 
Our poor little players, how can they be expected to twy deir bestest when the mangerywanangery is only there for a few monfs.

Cunts. Harry Kane has still banged in 21 league goals, the others ain't up to it. They lack ability and/or professional pride, just getting paid and going through the motions. Kane being the exception, which is why he wants out

I have come to the conclusion that player recruitment is everything. When we had a good crop of players, Poch was great with us. When the squad went into decline, so did Poch.

Unless the manager is particularly bad (Ramos for example), I don't think they are as important as we tend to think. Ancelotti with Everton players, shit. With Real Madrid players, he's the don. Same as Conte with us, failed. Everywhere else, a success.

Our players are, in many areas of the pitch, fucking gash. Take Kane out, the spine of the team is mid table at best. We are a team without a core of players. Paratici has been better than Hitchen, but I'm still unconvinced by our recruitment.
Isn’t conte just going through the motions and basically doesn’t give a shit about the club. Never has all his interested in is self protection. If his going down hisvtsling everyone with him. Like I have said many times now why come out with that rant yday just before international break. Due to his shit tactics and game management he could have done that rant after many games this season but he didn’t. It’s all calculated and basically his now back tracking on some things apparantly but he wants a pay off. His got no morales. He says his never had this situation before but his oversaw crap performances all season and done nothing to fix it. Yet he has no plan everyone knows next game will be the same selfish players not playing as a team and he won’t do anything about it. Hi king drop some of these players. Can anyone say Gil for example didn’t bust a gut when he played. He shows great commitment and enthusiasm unlike say PEH. Conte picks him all the time. Why not play skipp and Sarr?
 
I can imagine conte going on a passionate rant again with levy about the board & players being a loser & weak mentality etc. Expecting an emotional reaction from levy. But instead he just calmly nods & says “sounds about right tony. Fancy a mint?”
Then deducted out of his monthly wage is
1x pack of toffees.
Eclairs ? Do like an eclair 👍
 
The only person who benefitted from his rant yesterday was Conte himself. He is just establishing an excuse for his own pathetic failure. He has been backed! Apart from a couple we have got good players. What we haven’t got is a manager who can organise a piss up in a brewery - or a good attack-minded team. Just fuck off now you little cretin. YOU are the selfish one!
Spot on but people with other agendas will look to put blame elsewhere. Yes the club needs to take some blame but this season purely on a football level is all on conte. Many of his fans said wait till he has a pre-season. His had 3 transfer windows. Got rid of players he didn’t want. Does play players he didn’t want. Such an arrogant bastard. It’s his job to create a team spirit to make all are pulling in the right direction. Only the other week the players kept going on about team meetings and so on. WDF did that achieve then? It’s all on conte afaiac! He dictates the shit tactics, subs, timings, formation everything. He needs to be held account and cannot get away Scott free. However with the card his just played a lot of fans have fallen for his mind games. His a calculating fucker wants his money, slag the club off and has no shame!
 
Some of you on here are too desperate to blame Levy every time it goes wrong. At the start of Conte’s expensive tenure we were all very happy with his appointment At the end of last season we were all happy. We were all very happy with the summer transfer business unless you are idiot enough to believe we should have purchased Mbappe, Gvardiol and Haaland. What none of us could see was that Conte’s big reputation is false. Every disappointment we have had this year can be blamed on Conte’s pathetic intransigent tactics and inability to improve the players we have got. It is all on him
 
Some are blinded by their love of levy. The guy who picks the manager who then fails, isn’t responsible or accountable for the manager they picked failing. Crazy stuff.
So he can pick Tony pullis who then fails so he sacks him. But the main problem is the doomed manager, not levy picking an unsuitable manager who fails. Repeat over & over!!!
Yea levy has picked the managers but a lot here said they wanted conte bcos his a serial winner and will kick arse. I’ve not seen one game this season where we have dominated ftom start to finish and totally imposed our selves on the oppo. We play like pussies on the pitch bcos of his shot tactics. But come press conference his a hard man. Why not show that in the dressing room and then get the team to play with that attitude. Even if the football was short at least ducking g get the team to be hard to beat and concede goals. His done neither!
 
Maybe I'm blinded by Poch to see that, makes sense.

It doesn't seem to happen a lot in the EPL but one of the podcasts I listen to, I think it was A View From The Lane, gave quite a few examples of where it has worked in Europe before.

I meant us picking up a new man and turning him into a top draw manager being unlikely. I think if Poch comes back it will be fine actually. I don’t get the fear. If anything I think the club could do with the (relatively) safe pair of hands.
 
Some of you on here are too desperate to blame Levy every time it goes wrong. At the start of Conte’s expensive tenure we were all very happy with his appointment At the end of last season we were all happy. We were all very happy with the summer transfer business unless you are idiot enough to believe we should have purchased Mbappe, Gvardiol and Haaland. What none of us could see was that Conte’s big reputation is false. Every disappointment we have had this year can be blamed on Conte’s pathetic intransigent tactics and inability to improve the players we have got. It is all on him
The thing I can't get over is we legitimately played good football under Conte last season with a worse squad. This season, after he was backed in the summer (after the summer window he said he was happy with the squad), and had a preseason to work with the squad, our performances have, frankly, never been consistently good.

The only thing we have done consistently well all season is attacking set pieces, which is something he doesn't even coach.

Besides that? We have no style of play, we don't attack well, and we don't defend well.

This coach, who is one of the highest paid in the world, is supposed to make our team PLAY better and get better results. The longer he's been here the worse it's gotten.
 
For me its Poch now or Mason until the summer and then De Zerbi. I dont think Conte staying is an option, the players will down tools completely, which is obviously wrong but its what will happen.
But which players? His picked the same ones all season and is now saying they are selfish. I do t get it? If he thought that a while back his not anything g about it. Plus he said change of manger won’t change anything. Is t that a dig at the club?
 
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