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Manager Antonio Conte
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Conte’s not thick, he’ll have known that the squad needed to be improved and that it was going to take time to get them playing the way he wants.Sorry but just NO!
This is a project that he's discribing.
At the same time, he’s not talking about a five year project and sitting around patiently waiting for Levy to get it together. His history indicates he only has so much patience.
I'm expecting he'll be here no more than 3 seasons.
Many managers when joining a Club halfway through a season sign an initial 18-month contract (lots of examples of this). I don't know the reasoning behind this but can guess that it's a decent compromise on both sides as the risk is equal on both sides.
Something is wrong/not working on the pitch for a manager to be fired mid-season, so a new manager doesn't want to be held entirely accountable for this if the situation can't be fixed within the parameters discussed between the two parties at the point of hiring. Equally, the club don't want to commit to a managers bullshit who promises that he can fix the issue (just need to look at the bullshit the dinosaur spun on him studying a new system/philosophy during his time off).
It encourages both parties to work together, both having skin in the game and if their time together is productive and trust exists between the two both can reward each other by extending the contract.
Him being successful with us (winning something) isn't a guarantee of him sticking around either. More than any other coach/manager I think he understands the level of intensity he brings can't be sustained over a long period of time, he needs that reset before he can go again. It's an easier sell to be this whirlwind to a new group of players than the same group each year.
His biggest challenge is time with the player on the training ground, he simply doesn't have this luxury. But without a doubt, he knew this from the day he signed and it's why I absolutely hatted out fans booing his team after just 45mins of football into his home PL debut!!! Fucking disgusting IMO.
So basically, you seen to infer this is all on Conte to fix.
Think you are alone, in thinking the shit creek we're paddling frantically through is not 100% Enic's volition and their duty to get their very substantial cheque book out, the moment he demands, again, and again.
Levy needs to know he's the little bitch he is, in this moment.
If that's true, he's gone up multiple rungs on my perceptual ladder.
That sounds like a list of "these are the types I would like, if we sell Kane as I support".
He could see the Kane problem, and our disaster CM/AMF, props.
I like all those guys, too.
Just need someone to pass the ball to Harry Kane.
They should have doubled the length of his contract for that alone.
Basically confirming that our squad is an under invested mess should be music to all our ears but will be a bitter dose of reality for the remaining delusional freaks populating this forum
Iv done a double this weekend both Juve + Tottenham to win 3.2/1
Kane has scored 1 from 25 shots
Remember when you said shooting accuracy was irrelevant? And shots to goal ratio meant nothing..
Do we need to pass it to him 50 times in total to get him his second goal?
The stupid thing about your argument is that if Kane had scored 15 goals, from the exact same situations he’s had, you wouldn’t be complaining about supply.
Kane missing one on ones doesn’t mean he didn’t have a chance to score.
Hope you win!Iv done a double this weekend both Juve + Tottenham to win 3.2/1
I absolutely fucking love Conte’s comments about the club’s owners 
I’m assuming Levy told him before he signed that he can have pretty much whatever he wants.
Otherwise I imagine he’s sat fully clothed in his bath right now with his head in his hands wondering why he has just paid someone £15m a year to roast the living shit out of him.
I’m assuming Levy told him before he signed that he can have pretty much whatever he wants.
Otherwise I imagine he’s sat fully clothed in his bath right now with his head in his hands wondering why he has just paid someone £15m a year to roast the living shit out of him.
I absolutely fucking love Conte’s comments about the club’s owners
I’m assuming Levy told him before he signed that he can have pretty much whatever he wants.
Otherwise I imagine he’s sat fully clothed in his bath right now with his head in his hands wondering why he has just paid someone £15m a year to roast the living shit out of him.
It's funny how comments are skewed based on one's pereception
Quite the pleasant person aren't you.
He's not saying the squad has been under invested in though. He's saying the performances don't match up to the investment.
You should really stop reading between the lines and read what these people actually say
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The problem is who he wants, who he'll get and who we can honestly bring in.I absolutely fucking love Conte’s comments about the club’s owners
I’m assuming Levy told him before he signed that he can have pretty much whatever he wants.
Otherwise I imagine he’s sat fully clothed in his bath right now with his head in his hands wondering why he has just paid someone £15m a year to roast the living shit out of him.
Take De Ligt for example, no doubt he is the type of player Conte would want, but can you realistically see him coming here over a Chelsea, Bayern or God Forbid Liverpool? Could we afford him? He wants the ECL, would he want to come to Spurs or Conte?
I don't think we're in a position to just say we want thereforelets go out and get...we may have money to play with. But are top players coming down from the CL to the Vanarama European League?
Do any of those clubs want him?
I think he will just stay at Juve, but Chelsea look to be going for Kounde, Liverpool are set at CB and Bayern rarely make moves like that.
The good news is, like with Romero, we are set up to get quality players that the big clubs can't go for, for whatever reason. With many of the top teams being set at multiple positions and the Spanish clubs in financial trouble this is the time we should be aggressive to get players.