Enough of the veiled comments. Tell us how you really feel
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Manager Antonio Conte
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I know that. I still think he was right to burn them. They get paid enough, they can deal with some fucking criticism. Anyone who can't shouldn't be playing football, simple as that.
Stick 'em in the reserves.
I was holding back!
Tightrope?
I prefer the pragmatic managing people as if they might react negatively like humans do approach. Not the react emotionally because it feels better approach.
At least that’s a reasoned argument. Don’t agree it is wise but fair enough.
but it's not tight. Money has been spent, and a lot of money. We've just bought incredibly bad players, not good enough and with a bad attitude.
I don't want to be forced into supporting Levy. Nuno was a crap appointment, wasn't convinced by Jose but can only think Levy still believed in the squad when Jose was taken on. Now after Nuno and Conte he has probably realised and is fuming. Probably at himself for not sorting it sooner, those who chose that players and the players themselves for taking the money and being utter cunts
Bit of an assumption. I hope he does know what he is doing.
I don't think that really matters now. The bulk of the players are shit anyway, we can all see it. Just drop them and play energetic youth until January. Players like Skip and Moura (whilst frustrating), Son, Dier, Hugo, Davies, etc. are professional and are working hard. They will be fucked off by player like Dele by now. Doubt he has many friends left inside the club.
Yeah that's fair enough, hopefully it's a very public statement to levy to get his hand in his pocket and replace some of this crap. However, as we all know that's very unlikely to happen. I am more concerned about annoying Conte to the point of leaving at this point. I am sort of ambivalent towards the players now and would rather that if they all have hurt feelings enough not to play then send them to the youth squad and give their numbers to players who want to play for us.
lets be honest here. No manager turns up to a club in a great situation, if things were dandy the last guy wouldn't have been sacked. It does Conte no good running away from this, he knew the situation when he signed.
If he bails now it will be sending a message that he's less reliable, can't asses players, isn't a man of his word. Until January the situation is exactly as it was when he signed on the dotted line. When the transfer window slams shut it will be a different story, and at that point he can say he wasn't backed.
He was clearly reassured by Fabio that they would sign the players he wants in Jan, I believe five will come in and 2/3 will be older prove talent. I also feel in January they will discuss the summer window which will hopefully settle the nerves.
If he bails now it will be sending a message that he's less reliable, can't asses players, isn't a man of his word. Until January the situation is exactly as it was when he signed on the dotted line. When the transfer window slams shut it will be a different story, and at that point he can say he wasn't backed.
He was clearly reassured by Fabio that they would sign the players he wants in Jan, I believe five will come in and 2/3 will be older prove talent. I also feel in January they will discuss the summer window which will hopefully settle the nerves.
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From Conte's point of view I am guessing he is actually regreting the move a bit. He got sold on the world class training facilities and stadium and didn't think too much about how shit the players were. Now it is in his face every day. So he thinks well I will fuck the players off and either Levy will back me and I will get new better players in quickly or he won't in which case the whole thing will come tumbling down really quickly with the players showing they are crap not playing for me and then I can leave and blame Levy (not wrongly) for not backing me. Thing is, we know how this ends.
exactly, this wasn't aimed at Levy but at the media and fans to say "look, I know it's shit, I knew it was shit and am willing to work, be patient as it's not going to be a quick fix"
Why do some fabricate additional narrative, all it does is divide the fans and helps not one of us.
he can sell at a reduce rate and part cover wages. Whilst a bitter pill, it will cost more in the long-run keeping them around. Also part-ex has worked before.
If you tell players they will never play for you again then what choice do they have? We unloaded Sissoko, Lamella (although I would have preferred he stayed), Aurier. It can be done but we might have to take a loss in order to move forward.
I like this sentiment but honestly our youth are nowhere near good enough. If we played more than one or maybe two of our youth in the prem in a game we'd get massacred.
In January? I don't remember any club signing five players in January anywhere in Europe since transfer windows began.
I thought it was the manager's responsibility to fix bad players. Fans blamed Mourinho and Nuno for the poor results and wanted them sacked from day one. But with Conte, it's the players so lets give him time. As Conte said hes no magician and like the previous managers will be found out soon tactically. I dont buy this Conte hype! Theres a reason Man Utd didn't go for him and are due to appoint Rangnick.
I’d say it isn’t Levy’s job to believe in the squad , it’s his job to listen to people who have more understanding of football in their toe nail than he does & aid them as best he can . It was clear Poch wanted to add to the squad , baldy ignored it.
I think he fucked up a bit last night trusting these clowns who have produced this embarrassing shitshow of a performance on more than one occasion over the last 3 seasons. I always think go strong first get the job done then give people a game and antonio was wrong for that,but,any team that is one of the richest in the world and considered for a european super league should be able to muster an entire squad capable of comfortably progressing through a 3rd tier European competition. Complete mismanagement from the top to allow this to fester and not taking the correct decisions beforehand to stop this shit from continuing to happen. Tottenham hotspur is a football club first and foremost and if conte can't turn us into that then nobody can. I honestly think he's the right man but 18 months will be too soon and we will need him for atleast 3 years to truly sort this mess out.