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It would be interesting to see
Igula
and
sammyspurs
getting into an argument. One denying things he did say, and the other insisting he said things he definitely didn't.
And by interesting I mean there would just be pages and pages of ignored comments.
Levy has dropped so lucky after his post Poch bumbling around.
He really needs to listen to Antonio & sign off on the players that the manager & DOF choose, rather than bargain bucket alternatives.
If he fucks this appointment up by trying to be clever in the transfer market rather than just paying the required fees, then he really has nowhere left to hide.
He really needs to listen to Antonio & sign off on the players that the manager & DOF choose, rather than bargain bucket alternatives.
If he fucks this appointment up by trying to be clever in the transfer market rather than just paying the required fees, then he really has nowhere left to hide.
Well but the full quote is, "but there is a place to start". And follows up talking about how the level of the squad has dropped in recent years.
The message is that every time the club fails to take a step forward in a transfer window, it's taking a step backward and digging the hole deeper, adding more time and more money to the requirements to compete for major honors.
He's absolutely dead on, and saying what so many of us have been for the better part of four years now.
And that's the difference to Mourinho. Conte obviously knows that's bullshit but he lifts the team spirit by saying this. Meanwhile Mourinho is outcalling his players at Roma once again.
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Inside Conte's gruelling Tottenham training sessions with motto "die but finish"
Sergio Reguilon says no-one is spared under the Italian's demanding regime - and reveals the trick he's learned for avoiding exhaustion in matches - with Tottenham storming into Champions League fightwww.dailystar.co.uk
Inside Antonio Conte's gruelling Tottenham training sessions with motto "die but finish"
Sergio Reguilon says no-one is spared under the Italian's demanding regime - and reveals the trick he's learned for avoiding exhaustion in matches - with Tottenham storming into Champions League fight.
Antonio Conte praised Harry Kane's work ethic after their win over Newcastle but it isn't just the England captain putting a shift in for Tottenham lately.
For the Italian got Spurs ready for their Champions League push by making them do gruelling double training sessions during the international break. Some Tottenham stars famously complained about that when Mauricio Pochettino tried it, but it seems that Conte has convinced his players to shape up.
The Spurs boss has THREE conditioning specialists on his coaching staff, including Gian Piero "The Marine" Ventrone, whose motto is "Die but finish." And while Kane and co were away playing for their countries, everyone else at Tottenham was being put through their paces in challenging double sessions.
Full back Sergio Reguilon said: "They are tough. Really tough. For the manager, you can rest after the end of the season, not during it! Our work in them depends on the day, but it is tactical, technical and in the gym - that's the worst for me. And it's also run, run, run, run. I think it is necessary for us though.
"We know that in the international break the players that remained here in London needed to work hard, stay fit, and for that we did double sessions. Not only one either. We did a lot. Our team-mates were playing games, working hard for their national teams, but we had to be ready for when they came back so we could be at the same level of fitness."
Pochettino used to do the same thing, turning Tottenham into the Premier League's hardest working side and taking them to a Champions League final. "Even in international breaks," former Spurs and England full back Danny Rose once revealed, "He’d see the ones who would go away as having a holiday because training isn’t as hard with your national team. So if you weren’t in the national team you were getting beasted in training."
Spurs players were complaining that training was becoming too tough towards the end of Pochettino's reign. But some felt that things slipped too far the other way under Jose Mourinho and Nuno Espirito Santo, and Tottenham now look fitter and stronger for the run-in.
And they have piled the pressure right back on Woolwich ahead of their clash with Crystal Palace tonight by climbing above the Gunners into fourth. Even Reguilon, who is still recovering from Covid, did not escape Conte's double sessions, and though he missed the Newcastle game he is sure he will feel the benefits later this season.
He said: "After Covid still it is a little bit difficult. My feeling is I didn't recover 100 per cent. But this is football, this is life. You have to be ready for everything." Pochettino used to joke that players in rehab used to be desperate to come back quickly "because we kill them when they are injured. They have double sessions every day!"
And Conte is certainly following the same path. But Reguilon admits that when it comes to matches, it is just as important to conserve your energy. He said: "Sometimes I have to control my efforts because when we have a counter-attack I want to arrive in the other box as much as possible.
"But you also have to factor in that I begin in my own box and have to sprint 80 metres - and I then have to get back as well. After a game I would see I'd run run 11km and one of those would be at full speed. From there I understood what I needed to do.
"If I was doing those sort of runs constantly, I would arrive at the 80-minute mark exhausted. If I did it every game, maybe I would have to stop playing each season in February!"
Giampiero Ventrone? I didn't know he was on Conte's staff !! He is famous among Juventus fans because he was the coach of Marcello Lippi's first Juventus (late 90s): a team that had great physicality. The 3 mottos of Giampiero 'The Marine' Ventrone - Juve's fitness coach under Lippi:
1. Work today to run tomorrow
2. Die but finish
3. Victory belongs to the strong
Vialli was once so annoyed at Ventrone that he locked him in a cupboard and called the police ... [Zonal Marking]
Daniel Levy has got another bite at the cherry again here. He fucked our progress after Pochettino and put us back years. Finally we’re on the right track again with a world class manager and CL. Back the guy Daniel Levy.
I think i'm in love
I don’t want him as our manager anymore. I don’t even care if he does manage to get a team playing the way he wants. His style of football is shit. He never has a plan B. His selections are poor.
He’s won a lot, great. Chuffed for him. But I watch football to escape from my normal life for a couple hours a week. Within those two hours I’d like to be entertained slightly. Instead, I’m subjected to the most most fucking dogshit, negative, backwards, boring shitfest of football imaginable.
If he can’t get more out of this squad then simply put; he’s not as good a manager as he thinks. Yes, there are stinkers in that squad but for fuck’s sake. We should still be beating Villa with the players we have. He has to accept responsibility for being unable to get the most out of the players available to him.
The most frustrating thing about all of is this is that Levy acknowledged that we (the fans) wanted to return to attacking football post-Mourinho. He even made a statement saying that he wants us playing fast-paced, attacking football that the club is known for (or something along those lines). He then signs a defensive minded manager, again. So I have absolutely no faith in Levy to get it right this time either. Might as well have Gareth Fucking Southgate as manager to completely kill off our love for the club.
He’s won a lot, great. Chuffed for him. But I watch football to escape from my normal life for a couple hours a week. Within those two hours I’d like to be entertained slightly. Instead, I’m subjected to the most most fucking dogshit, negative, backwards, boring shitfest of football imaginable.
If he can’t get more out of this squad then simply put; he’s not as good a manager as he thinks. Yes, there are stinkers in that squad but for fuck’s sake. We should still be beating Villa with the players we have. He has to accept responsibility for being unable to get the most out of the players available to him.
The most frustrating thing about all of is this is that Levy acknowledged that we (the fans) wanted to return to attacking football post-Mourinho. He even made a statement saying that he wants us playing fast-paced, attacking football that the club is known for (or something along those lines). He then signs a defensive minded manager, again. So I have absolutely no faith in Levy to get it right this time either. Might as well have Gareth Fucking Southgate as manager to completely kill off our love for the club.
This is the best case scenario tbh.
Conte gets the sack and ENIC get publicly humiliated with some long overdue home truths.
Conte gets the sack and ENIC get publicly humiliated with some long overdue home truths.
