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Manager Antonio Conte

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Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
This has club briefing written all over it. The groundwork is fully laid down now for a sacking tomorrow night if we go out.

I don't dislike Conte at all, even though the situation has grown frustrating, but if accurate he really needs to go now rather than allow things to get increasingly toxic before the season's end. It's worth remembering that the entire fanbase was incredibly united behind him (and somewhat against Levy) and yet that has managed to flip in recent months.
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Yep. Same, Spurs and Conte were never a good fit. Conte has a certain playing style hes just not going to get out of these players and is used to getting the players he wants no questions asked.

At the clubs Conte is used to managing he’d get a Pedro Porro in the first week of the transfer window and that would just be the start. It took us a whole window and probably nearly killed Levy parting with that kind of money. Conte just doesnt have the flexibility and is too dogmatic in his approach for Spurs…

And yet here we are still technically 4th
 
So according to that Athletic article, Conte is back today for media and training duties.

Note that our social media team haven't posted anything about that as of yet (in previous times they love a bit of Antonio content). Perhaps something to keep an eye on.
 
Gym&Chill said:
If it is Poch, I think we should be looking beyond Kane and Probably son. I think Richarlison leading the line as number 9 with some genuine young quality wingers is the future, and finally get a decent CAM.
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Agree, although I doubt Richarlison is good enough long term. I think he could hopefully settle as a busy winger/9 that can contribute 10ish goals a season.

But we’ll need a new 9.
 
Raf said:
I take it the author has been briefed by the club and that the names mentioned to take over are the ones the board may be considering.

Poch isn't a done deal then, I don't know if thats because the board actually want to consider other managers or if Poch is waiting to see if Madrid come in for him.

It sounds like the board would like Tuchel but are aware that he probably wouldn't come and the fans really don't want another ex-chelsea manager, so thats good. He'd do a Conte and only sign for 12 months until a bigger club came calling anyway.

I have no idea why he said some fans would love to see Mason promoted. He must have a word count he needs to meet for this article.

De Zerbi is a good choice, I heard he has a release clause which is less than Conte's yearly salary so if they really want him they should be willing to pay it. He seems very ambitious so if he doesn't feel like Brighton are trying to push higher and are just content with being a selling club he might want to go elsewhere.

I like Marco Silva as well, he's done a good job at Fulham and I think he would come here immediately if given the chance. He hasn't even signed an extension yet at Fulham.

"Inside the club now, they sense a need to take control of the situation and make clear that they are thinking about life beyond Conte. They do not want to sleepwalk into a manager-less post-season as they did two years ago. Succession planning will not begin on the bus back from Elland Road after the final game of the season."

If thats the case why didn't the succession plan begin in January? It sounds like they're more interested in making it appear as though they have a plan rather than actually having one.
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Yeah I'm not entirely convinced it will be Poch if we wait till the summer to make a change. Before then, much more likely I reckon.
 


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Cranston said:
If it is Poch, the Kane question will be very important because Harry categorically does not have the legs to lead the press we need.
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Gotta question if Son is up for it as well.

I think that you can work around having one forward that doesn't press too much. You could see it against West Ham and Chelsea, when we had Richarlison and Dejan that could press more aggressively, and allow Harry to drop back a bit.

But if you have two older(ish) strikers that are dropping off in the press then you are just running the third guy in our formation into the ground trying to do the work of 3 men.
 
The Romanian Jack said:
I find it funny how some part-time call center job guy like yourself calls a very successful football manager “brain-dead idiot”. Not that you will ever taste 1% of his success, but you’re more likely to be the “brain-dead idiot” here.
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I might achieve 1% what Conte has. But I will get 100x more than pathetic ass-kisser who is satisfied by seeing Spurs get beaten by Championship side with bench players.

He is stealing the money while embarrassing us. But at least as it is said - he will be paid for doing that. You seem to want to suck up for nothing.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
Gotta question if Son is up for it as well.

I think that you can work around having one forward that doesn't press too much. You could see it against West Ham and Chelsea, when we had Richarlison and Dejan that could press more aggressively, and allow Harry to drop back a bit.

But if you have two older(ish) strikers that are dropping off in the press then you are just running the third guy in our formation into the ground trying to do the work of 3 men.
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Son's been played with his back to goal, if you play him off the shoulder then he's fine - I don't know why Conte continues to use him like that.
 
Shadydan said:
Son's been played with his back to goal, if you play him off the shoulder then he's fine - I don't know why Conte continues to use him like that.
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Agreed. But that wasn't what I questioned. I questioned relying on him to press consistently when defending at his age.

We pressed better against West Ham and Chelsea because two thirds of our attacking line was younger and have the engine to still press consistently. Playing both Kane and Son these days will lead to us not pressing as much because neither of them do that these days.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
Agreed. But that wasn't what I questioned. I questioned relying on him to press consistently when defending at his age.

We pressed better against West Ham and Chelsea because two thirds of our attacking line was younger and have the engine to still press consistently. Playing both Kane and Son these days will lead to us not pressing as much because neither of them do that these days.
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Yeah maybe

We're just a bit shit aren't we 😆
 
Shadydan said:
Son's been played with his back to goal, if you play him off the shoulder then he's fine - I don't know why Conte continues to use him like that.
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He certainly does do that (they all play with their backs to goal; drives me nuts) but it’s difficult to know if that’s him adjusting for losing a yard of pace or a lack of confidence.

If it’s the former, we need to start planning.

Son isn’t leaving this year, I just can’t see the club selling him. But he’s going to have to turn things around sharpish.
 
Richard Arlison said:
These leaks always stink of upstairs blaming the players,

Either there really are players that feel they can pick the manager or somebody upstairs really thinks everyone is dumb enough to suck up this BS line again…

It can’t be Winks this time so who would it be?
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Pinch of salt as ever....... JBP is the same bloke that said (in another big bloated article) that we had no momey to spend in January; only for us to blow 45m on a WB that it seems we were determined to get from day one.

The above article is just a lot of cut n paste cliches that any of us could have cobbled together out of the football lexicon........ It's also as typically bloated and self-important as ever; having come from The Athletic.

- Will Conte decide to not extend? Quite possiby not.
- Will Spurs extend against Conte's will? Of course not... It would be the height of stupidity..., Doesn't take a contact as the club to tell you that....
- Will Levy sack him before the end of the season? Most likely not.
 


TFG is like a blissed-out Yoda during media day, but a fucking raving lunatic on the touchline in the trenches on match day.

Sack this bald fraud!
 
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