No doubt...... No-shows are always unsettling
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Manager Antonio Conte
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No doubt...... No-shows are always unsettling
la parisien are pretty reliable for psg news
really hope its not conte poch swap but levy will be all over it like a rash
really hope its not conte poch swap but levy will be all over it like a rash
with ten haag at united, pochettino will be, sadly, available next year
I'm not against pochettino, but his work at tottenham has been already done, many years of building, many years of improvement, 0 trophies, end of the cycle
let's hope PSG hire zidane
I still don’t get the Sanchez sub tbh
It’s probably Conte’s insurance, his get out if we don’t back him to what he wants.
Without doubt Poch would be called back. Which would be terrible as we would need to change systems again and scout different types of players, it would fuck up our summer. Although the alternative would be another Nuno like disaster manager probably so Poch would be our emergency saviour from that.
you know the others are shit if he comes oon first conte has no faith in the others sadly
Most people have said what I was going to post. Stubbornness will be the downfall of professional managers in the current climate of football. Every team has analysts who look to identify weakness and gameplans in such detail nowadays that if you don't have a plan B, C and D you will get found out very quickly now. Poch and Conte succumbing to this now.
We can't say we weren't warned. When Conte was first touted last summer, there were posts from Juve and Italy supporters that he doesn't change things soon enough. Tactically inflexible, his in game management is poor. He's the type of manager that drills patterns of play on the training field. When it works it's great. But when it doesn't there is no idea of how to change play because they have been drilled only in 1 way. This means that your players are like robots. I'm not going to get worked up over it. He has his coaching principles and it's got him this far so he won't change. His solution will be to replace the players with better quality which is no good to us now, aside from him showing Guts and playing Bergwijn from the start.
Another point I wanted to make. Lots of people saying playing 1 game a week would do us good so let's get knocked out of the cups. That's backfired, lack of game time has sapped all the intensity out of our play. Slow to start, second to 50-50s, laborious, inaccurate in the passing, static, and most of all happy to just go through the motions knocking it around the 5 defenders and 2dms we have in our own half.
Might sound silly but has all the extra running under Conte finally caught up with them. They are playing like they are fatigued, look leggy. Playing the same 11 even once a week adds fatigue. The starting 11 desperately needs freshening up in the next game.
We can't say we weren't warned. When Conte was first touted last summer, there were posts from Juve and Italy supporters that he doesn't change things soon enough. Tactically inflexible, his in game management is poor. He's the type of manager that drills patterns of play on the training field. When it works it's great. But when it doesn't there is no idea of how to change play because they have been drilled only in 1 way. This means that your players are like robots. I'm not going to get worked up over it. He has his coaching principles and it's got him this far so he won't change. His solution will be to replace the players with better quality which is no good to us now, aside from him showing Guts and playing Bergwijn from the start.
Another point I wanted to make. Lots of people saying playing 1 game a week would do us good so let's get knocked out of the cups. That's backfired, lack of game time has sapped all the intensity out of our play. Slow to start, second to 50-50s, laborious, inaccurate in the passing, static, and most of all happy to just go through the motions knocking it around the 5 defenders and 2dms we have in our own half.
Might sound silly but has all the extra running under Conte finally caught up with them. They are playing like they are fatigued, look leggy. Playing the same 11 even once a week adds fatigue. The starting 11 desperately needs freshening up in the next game.
In reference to patterns of play that is also what Pep and Klopp do, they have generally only plan A but it’s done to perfection with the players that can do it.
Klopp’s first season was all over the shop with players who couldn’t enact his system/patterns and it took time to perfect and a lot of new players. Conte is in a similar mould, he has his patterns and needs his players.
This is the difference between a pragmatic manager (Redknapp) and a philosophy manager like Conte or Pep. Considering the clubs lack of long term scouting and good investment a pragmatic manager probably makes more sense for us but in recent years managers with one plan be it Klopp, Pep, Potter, Conte have done better.
Wasn't thinking this a month or two ago but English managers are so underated.
Eddie Howe and Graham Potter seem to be on a upwards trajectory. They seem to more connected with their players and football in England
Eddie Howe and Graham Potter seem to be on a upwards trajectory. They seem to more connected with their players and football in England
If Conte does a runner in the summer would take Potter and Bissouma.
It allowed us to remove Sessegnon (Reguilon was not fully fit) and helped us defend set pieces which were causing us massive trouble throughout the game. We probably had our best spell of the match in the period after Davinson came on and Davies went to LWB. A good 15 minutes where we were totally in control. I get that sub.
What isn't comprehensible is why it took 86 minutes for Emerson to leave the pitch and for another attacker to come on. I would rather lose the game trying to throw the kitchen sink at them than settle for a useless point, but that seems to reflect what Conte really thinks of this team. He thinks that if we sacrifice any real solidity we will lose, which may well be true.
At the end of the day we are paying the price for having 3 duff wing backs and midfielders who cannot really score a goal or create a chance. I believe during commentary they said Bentancur hasn't scored a club goal for 2 years. Even Hojbjerg chips in with a couple each season. The team is too reliant on the 3 starters up front.
And then we’ll be back to square one during the period Poch left which wasn’t good
Or as I said during the match thread revert to a back four with Davies on the left and Romero on the right and give Rodon a chance alongside Dier
Anything but Sanchez imv but even though we looked better shape wise when he came on still no shots on target
I agree with you regarding the time it took to haul Royal off who was quite frankly an embarrassment and should never feature again
Certainly not Rodon
Spurs lose to Brighton and you tip your cap and assume Potter had developed a good game plan. Knowing Brentford's scouts have seen that game you figure Conte, or any good coach, would have adjusted their approach. I think Conte is a fine coach but I believe he approaches things from the perspective that his system is everything and the variables he can change are the players he uses (or the team acquires) and the intensity of practice. Spurs are a great counterattacking team but if you minimize mistakes against them and keep your shape it is too easy to stop them. The importance of Kulusevski is he is effective even after the initial thrust into the other team's territory has been blunted. If you involve him it opens up opportunities for Kane and Son. If you can't, or don't, you get what we have seen the last two weeks. Right now we sure look different without Doherty.
fuck me
conte: want 150 mill to improve squad
levy: get poch on the phone
conte: want 150 mill to improve squad
levy: get poch on the phone
Benzema done for Poch...