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Half hope, half delusion.
Did I miss the bit where you said that Conté’s job is to do the best for Spurs or does that not matter?
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........This after you posting a diatribe about how great our players are?
Something with all the titles his won with money his never managed to do. In fact he hasn’t won a CL KO gane for nearly 10 years. Elite manager as Jim royal would say my arse. Then he has the gall minus bladder to lecture spurs. His job is get us to complete and his basically failed. Sack him now! We are never gonna play free flowing pass and move attacking football whist his here. Just look at our games and see how many actual chances do we create for harry. His starved of any real chances. A lot of his goals this season have been from corners or crosses. We not actually pumped teams and create multiple openings. It’s all counter mainly.
But okay no worries, if you still want to focus on the league cool we can talk about our play style and lack of control in matches which he is 100% culpable for.
Oh yeah once he's in post absolutely.
I've just answered this above.Yeh, come on
That's pretty whack bit of excuse making right there.....
Maybe Levy's job is to make money for his family too.......? ......Paratici? .....Sanchez and any of our feverishly derided players?
I think you're using speculation as fact and I don't agree on recruitment at all. There's zero evidence Conte wanted Lenglet over Botman or anyone else. The club sign players for positions required by the manager. He wanted a CCB too if speculation is correct. Is it Contes fault we didn't sign one? He's clearly not in charge of recruitment.The two CB's were unattainable for different reasons, the point is that we ought to have been more flexible in the market and the players I mentioned were all BETTER than the loan player we signed yet were identified.
He's not in charge of recruitment no, but he's had more of a say in transfers than any other manager we have had that's the point, he ultimately has sign offs on players and he agreed to sign off on Lenglet and yet 3 windows in he still ultimately doesn't think CB is such an issue.
I'm not saying that the board or Paratici shouldn't be culpable but he still needs to take his fair share of blame on the CB issue, if this is a manager who 'knows football' then seemingly he ought to know what he needs and who he's getting/signing off on.
The Spence thing, yes okay fine, all well and good saying he's not been good enough but he hasn't been given a chance to show what he's worth regardless, I mean you could say the same of Emerson who was decent defensively and poor going forward so ultimately what's the difference here
Danjuma came from Villareal not Seville, I just made a point about him having a high scoring rate in the CL and you completely ignored it, why? Is a 6 in 9 scoring rate in the CL now not good enough for Spurs?
Oh yes he has been vindicated but that was never my point, if he put as much time and effort into Emerson than why couldn't he put as much time and effort into Spence?
Son is our 2nd highest scorer because he's clocked the 4th highest amount of minutes in the team behind Kane, Son and Hojbjerg, this despite him having a poor season and having a 1 in 4 record (6 goals this season and one was a hat trick against Leicester) I don't think anyone can tell me that Rich or Danjuma could have easily posted the same if not higher numbers if they got similar minutes.
There's no problem at all but you can't on one hand say that the manager's hands are tied behind his back and yet ignore what Conte has come out and constantly said about Dier AND the fact that he keeps playing him, we can't have it both ways here.
And to mitigate the issue, has he tried to change the formation? No
Has he rested Dier for a period of matches? No
Again I'm not saying that it's all on Conte but he needs to take his far share of the blame and some accountability of the situation.
The point about Paratici is that Conte is working with a DOF who he's worked with successfully in the past and that's another thing which was in his favour. Pep worked with Xhiki at Barcelona before and City brought him in to eventually work with Pep, before you say we ought to have done what City had done the point is that Conte had his right hand man to work with which is another card stacked in his favour so yet again why are we making excuses for him?
He wasn't given much choice yet there was a plethora of CB's who I mentioned earlier, by all accounts his only choices were Bastoni or Gvardiol, one would wonder why any others weren't prioritised and you have to wonder why he signed off on Lenglet, it's definitely a collective fault.
NVM
Well you haven't used context at all because you've totally ignored our form in the cups and only mentioned the league
Yes injuries and mitigating circumstances such as personal issues should be taken into account but I think we can expect a manager who is so called elite to coach cohesive patterns of play, to be able to coach a team to play across 90 mins in at least a 3rd of our games, to not allow the team to concede 40 goals which is more than West Ham and Crystal Palace who are threatened by relegation.
I mean he managed some sort of progression and improvement of our players last season, why is he tanking so much this season despite having £170m invested into the team in the Summer?
Which is fine but he had Kane and Romero on the bench to change things earlier when things weren't going our way, this is literally what he is paid to do to spot these things and make changes.
This is the same team who beat Chelsea and City prior to this match by the way so we know they can turn up, if they're not turning up against lesser sides then it's on the coach to change that mentality.
100% But we know he worked with a large number of of this squad last season and he got a few of them to play above their levels which is what we were all happy with, so you have to ask why players are now stagnating, players like Kulusevski and Son are unrecognisable now from last season, Dier, Davies, Hojbjerg have all regressed, LLoris too although he was probably due a down turn in form.
4th and currently 4th is very good, it's the intertangables and lack of context I have an issue with that surround our season, no one would be saying anything if we got knocked out to Real or City in the CL and the cups by the way, just that no one would be saying anything if there was a semblance of an actual plan on the pitch when we play because there's something to hold onto.
And just to make it clear I am not absolving Levy of any blame here, I'm just adding a counter balance to the Conte wasn't backed or Conte isn't culpable argument which IMO is nonsense, he's done a good job of pulling the wool over Spurs fans eyes with that rant and deflecting blame but he needs to look at himself, he's done a shit job this season with what he's been given.
And I don't understand your point about Conte's job??
Haha you plonker
I have to say...... I watched the interview again today without the emotion of drawing with Southampton..... And Conte is bang on the money about the attitude of the players...... They've been failures and happy to be failures for far too long.
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