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Manager Antonio Conte

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Conte is not the ideal Tottenham coach, but he is the type of coach we need right now.
I think post Conte we can bring in Potter, I am not against the idea of Scott Parker.
Conte will almost set ablaze the dressing room, reshuffle the pack, give middle fingers to the ones not willing to work for the team, which will create room for a manager that would be needed to calm the storm.
The ideal Tottenham type manager.
I think Conte in himself is a stop gap, a productive one. One that can bench Kane, Dele, Hugo and even levy
 
Matt1882 said:
That 2nd game, I had a lifelong City fan texting me saying how they were out of ideas, having pot shots from range and could play all day and not score
Towards the end they looked fucked and we missed chanced to increase the scoreline.

The first game was ages ago now but I remember it being a decent match.
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Likewise. My former boss is a lifelong city fan, and he was gobsmacked at how easily we managed both games. They were hard fought games but he openly conceded that we were worthy winners.
 
Don Corleone said:
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Who here has finally got their mojo back a little with Spurs ? Make no mistake there’s still major problems at this club, but this Conte is a massive coup. A fabulous manager, one of the best in the world and we have appointed him. Considering we are currently a Europa conference team, we done extremely well to convince him. I finally feel slightly excited with Spurs for the 1st time in 3 years. Welcome Conte!!!!!! COYS!!!
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Raumdeuterz said:
You're saying the decision to sack Mourinho before a final was wrong, I'm saying the only wrong thing was not sacking the utter prick earlier.
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We had every reason to leave him on the tarmac in Zagreb and hire someone to the end of the season for a last gasp at top 4 and some building toward that final.

We absolutely should have been done with the Mourinho experiment after that season.

Doing it the week of the cup final and leaving an unqualified nobody like Mason with a rump handful of games was a slap in every supporter’s face, showing not just apathy but genuine avoidance of winning a trophy, and then treating the end of a season as a training exercise.

And the Nuno farce continued the disrespect for the sanctity of competitive football into this season.

May it end tomorrow and never return, but the stain on ENIC remains. There is no sporting bone in their bodies.
 
Matt1882 said:
That 2nd game, I had a lifelong City fan texting me saying how they were out of ideas, having pot shots from range and could play all day and not score
Towards the end they looked fucked and we missed chanced to increase the scoreline.

The first game was ages ago now but I remember it being a decent match.
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And for the last game just 4 weeks prior to the final where we were dry hummped by them 0-3, you remember that one?

He had lost the dressing room, it was well and truly over, fucked, dead in the water, mort, the dino was extinct.
 
Shadydan said:
That's my whole entire fucking point, we got there in the end, took you a while.
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Yeah except it's utter fucking bullshit that this was our 'worst decision ever' or whatever nonsense hyperbole you came up with about it. And it's still a maybe because Jose was shit for months before that final, but we're just assuming because he beat City when the side were in form, we re-discover it.

Based on nothing but if's and maybe's you're stating it's some terrible decision. The reality of what we were actually like as a team under him was staring us in the face for a long time.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Yeah except it's utter fucking bullshit that this was our 'worst decision ever' or whatever nonsense hyperbole you came up with about it. And it's still a maybe because Jose was shit for months before that final, but we're just assuming because he beat City when the side were in form, we re-discover it.

Based on nothing but if's and maybe's you're stating it's some terrible decision. The reality of what we were actually like as a team under him was staring us in the face for a long time.
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okay
 
Raumdeuterz said:
I honestly think we lose that final regardless. The atmosphere in the build up was dour, our results terrible. Maybe he finds his mojo back for a one off game but it's a huge if, and personally all the faith I had in the man had been totally eroded by that point, so I wasn't bothered by it.

Decisions like hiring Nuno have been far more damaging imo. That was pure incompetence.
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I’m not saying we would have won. I just think we stood a better chance of winning with a manager who had been there for 18(?) months, with a wealth of experience winning when it matters, rather than sacking him and putting a total novice in charge.
We can surely agree to disagree on this.
You think it was the right call.
I think it was bloody abysmal and totally unsettled everyone at the club (Mason included) a matter of days before we had 90 minutes to win something.
What is for certain is we were never winning that game with Mason “5 days notice” in charge. It’s like putting a journeyman middleweight in against a top heavyweight in a title fight with a week to get himself ready.
 
FightingIllini said:
We had every reason to leave him on the tarmac in Zagreb and hire someone to the end of the season for a last gasp at top 4 and some building toward that final.

We absolutely should have been done with the Mourinho experiment after that season.

Doing it the week of the cup final and leaving an unqualified nobody like Mason with a rump handful of games was a slap in every supporter’s face, showing not just apathy but genuine avoidance of winning a trophy, and then treating the end of a season as a training exercise.

And the Nuno farce continued the disrespect for the sanctity of competitive football into this season.

May it end tomorrow and never return, but the stain on ENIC remains. There is no sporting bone in their bodies.
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I think the board thought the same as many of us, that Jose had lost the dressing room and we had little chance of winning a cup final anyway since the morale was so fucked. Maybe they hoped the boost many teams get from sacking Jose (look at the run United went on when they were rid of the cunt) would apply to us and we'd ride it to victory.

It was annoying they had nobody better than Mason lined up, for sure. But honestly under Mason I thought we looked better than under Jose for the most part anyway. Sure Mourinho is miles ahead tactically, but were players actually listening to him at this point?

Once Mourinho is done, he's usually done. There's rarely a reprieve, just a continual slide till a club decides to pull the trigger.
 
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