Nice linguistics n all, but you got 5 games before 1/3 of the TFC crowd turn.
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Manager Antonio Conte
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Nice linguistics n all, but you got 5 games before 1/3 of the TFC crowd turn.
What we are seeing is the "would Klopp/Pep do well at a smaller club" question brought to real life.
Conte is a winner. He's going to go all in on making us win some trophies, even if it is just to prove that he can.
Needs a slap
He said an interesting thing around the 10 minute mark that the facilities are almost ‘too much’. I actually think I understand what he means, perhaps the players look around and think they’ve already made it and this subliminally affects their drive and determination.
They should maybe instead have a feeling that they don’t belong in this facility yet and they should work to aspire to be the match for the world class stadium they play in, one of the best in the world. Don’t assume they have made it already. Maybe Conte thinks everything is a little too comfortable at Spurs.
Just some thoughts on that interview, he is a very interesting and intense character it’s almost an emotional experience hearing him put his messages across.
They should maybe instead have a feeling that they don’t belong in this facility yet and they should work to aspire to be the match for the world class stadium they play in, one of the best in the world. Don’t assume they have made it already. Maybe Conte thinks everything is a little too comfortable at Spurs.
Just some thoughts on that interview, he is a very interesting and intense character it’s almost an emotional experience hearing him put his messages across.
Our facilities and our infrastructure gives me a cushty vibe, even watching the documentary our training academy looked like a fucking luxury holiday resort, it's no wonder players are coasting - we as a club haven't even done anything of note to deserve it, our players are incredibly pampered.
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It's clear what kind of club Levy wants to make us
We're the disneyland of the EPL
Attract tourists, have a lot of shiny/family friendly things and make sure to grow that top line.
Playing good football is 5th on the list
Really all the fans must be patient, it may take this entire season to get on the right track.
I think and I hope that with a world class manager like Antonio even the most irrational and reactionary Spurs fans will understand the absolute necessity for patience and positive support for the team to turn things around.
I think and I hope that with a world class manager like Antonio even the most irrational and reactionary Spurs fans will understand the absolute necessity for patience and positive support for the team to turn things around.
Top 4 is a must and we can do it!
And what if we don’t reach top 4? I think the way the squad have played in the last months that top 4 is out of the question. It will be incredible if Conte can turn it around and get us into top 4.
Think he suffered from Wenger syndrome, of sorts. The parallel on a shorter timeline is very similar, Wenger came with fresh training, conditioning, and a great knowledge of French players to supplement his gaps, build a juggernaut, sold Anelka, Petite and a few others, getting equal or better (Henry). Then his board thought that could continue, even though the rest of the Prem realised and copied/elevated their backroom dynamics to remove his value add. Then they build a stadium and lack the streets in the transfer market to get deals done for the best players, even youth which was their center stone.
Poch, brought in fresh training, mentality, and bringing through younger players with fresh legs vital for his system. Poch/Levy though never sold players as they should, at peak, leaving them to accumulate excessive metabolic residues due to over reliance on 'his soliders', probably also learning on the job (as it's clear there was no background issues in 15-18, no stories of ramblings, that 3 seasons as one of Pochs runners/animals will destroy all but those of insane nutritional nurture, as the players depart they are going to pasture (except Eriksen who should have gone immediately after CL final, or xmas before ideally, as his legs had gone, from his peak), virtually the Glue Factory for Wanyama, Poch said Jan could play until he's 40 at the top level, but I swear he was chinned for speaking out (over the players of multiple years still needing boot camping, hence the black eye).
Due to the staleness, once your body is loaded with pockets as Uric, Lactic etc. No longer did the pre-game call to adrenalize work, half time worked some games and for some players, as once at a certain point external stimuli cannot influence the autonomic nervous system, as the signal to rest and repair is overwhelmingly strong.
Really hope Conte and his team see this, Dier was pushed (and pushed himself) beyond his bodily resilience, ended up needing surgary, which is demonstrated to hamper recovery in high end sports, yet we over and over play him on 3day turn arounds and he gets pelters, because at key moments he switches off (AUTOMONIC NERVOUS SYSTEM). Yet fans blame Dier over and over (even I get caught up in it, yet I can see the biochemistry in action clearly with him).
Poch seems to have not learnt though, in that he has not brought in 4-5 top youngsters of insane physiology and engines, instead playing his latter Spurs styles it appears (technical rather than Animals). He may be hamstrung in this, but without the intensity of 'all in this, we are going to run through, round, over you', he's not much of a match day coach IMO, never was or we'd have won something with how close we got.
Hopefully Conte wins us a Prem, or CL, so Poch can go somewhere else without soo many upset, but I think his ink is caste here, or should be.
5? He must have a lot of credit in the bank!
At the moment, Levy is still enemy number 1 for most in here (although he did bring Conte in so not sure how that works?) but I reckon really dreadful performances after international break will see the sharp side of TFC.
I hope not, tho - it gets exhausting all this negativity.
Special is definitely the right word. He’s at his peak, not a has been on the slide or a hopeful punt on a young, promising manager. He won’t take any bullshit or pamper the squad. I seriously think it will be his way or the door way for all of them.
And I love it. I genuinely thought there was no hope of him coming to Spurs. Now he’s here, even the most cynical supporter must be filling their shorts with glee. If he walks out on us, we know it’s down to Levy/ENIC not giving him the tools to do his job.
It’s a win/win. We have one of the very best, & he is proven. None of this bullshit about being happy with the squad as it is. He’s laying it out from the off.
We will either have success with him at the helm, or we will know why he can’t be successful with us.
Wonderful stadium and training facilities. Now it’s time to make all of that count by having a great team and manager to grace it.
Incredible but achievable and I would imagine in Conte’s team talks he will be saying something similar
Do tell, what is he even getting at with that word?
I’m not the brightest but I’m fucking stumped
Thank fuck for that. Was googling it and all sorts trying to figure it out.
Three things are true:
1. The Conte Effect has been more or less instant at every club he’s ever worked at.
2. At Juve, Chelsea and Inter the Conte era began with a new major signing that proved to be a revelation and lynchpin of his success (Pirlo, Kante, Lukaku)
3. Conte himself apparently expressed trepidation about taking a job midseason in view of the United and Newcastle openings, at least per reports.
The happy synthesis of those is Conte getting a jolt of better play out of our squad with time to understand them and then be targeted in our spending in future windows.
The unhappy version would be that the lack of a preseason and improved squad at the start will strangle the Conte magic and accelerate the process of him demanding more backing than the club are willing to give.
I LOVE that he's come out and said "nice stadium but your players have been coached by idiots". Means business. Best buzz about the club since prime Poch.