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Manager Antonio Conte

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They’ve done nothing, but that’s football. We have a manager who is determined to leave and players who are not enjoying his football ideas. That can’t work.

Our players being weak-willed losers is a separate issue that flows directly from Levy and the culture of mediocrity that he has fostered over 20 years. He is exactly the same as the players. Not focused on winning, turning on managers that he hasn’t supported, easily distracted etc. A team reflects the character of the manager but it reflects the character of the chairman too.

Conte is being fired essentially because he is more demanding than the players and chairman. He has made serious managerial mistakes as well but his ambition is the root cause of the problem. He asked for Bastoni and he was given Lenglet. Are we really surprised that we don’t win anything when a washed up player is our main CB signing?

Levy doesn’t make winning a priority so why would the players? Why are we paying £1500 for our season tickets? So that Davinson Sanchez can keep enjoying a slap-up breakfast at the training centre for the 7th year in a row?
Indeed.
 
Wow! Highest ticket prices and match day revenues in Europe, nay, the WORLD, and all our fans want is exciting football to look forward too each week. Fuck actually winning, eh'

I guess Daniel Levy and Joe Lewis are very happy Billy Bob's too

No wonder they chose Spurs!
Oh don't do that. This is why I try not to engage with you on this subject cos you twist anything to fit what you want it to.

Yes I want attractive football but at no point did I say I didn't want to win things too.

I want to win things with attractive football. If you can guarantee that we'll win things with shit football I'll take that.

But you can't guarantee it. No-one can. So my main demand is fun, attractive, exciting football. I am obviously hoping that'll lead to winning things too but if it doesn't then at least I've been entertained.
 
When a manager is sacked his whole coaching staff always go as well. Unless it’s Spurs , Ryan Mason stays. Wonder what it is about him?
Just read that a number of Spurs players have contacted Poch about returning to the club.I bet it’s the ones ,like Dier, who Poch would keep whilst other managers would certainly get rid of.
 
Jesus, hope that's not true. Conte basically just called them selfish and cowards and they go running to daddy to get them away from the mean man.
Can't be true......
Any decision to bring back Poch should be made by the board and based on merits. Not because the players asked him to come back because he is a "safe" option.

That's my main gripe with bringing him back. I don't want a "safe" option. I want something new. And I don't want Poch to potentially tarnish his legacy here by a bad second act. He should come back later when things truly are fresh for him. No Kane, no Son, no Hugo or Dier etc. A proper blank slate of a squad.
 
But the football hasn’t been effective. It’s why we rarely score in first halves, are always going a goal down and end up having to chase games. It’s because the tactics and formation at the outset have been continuously ineffective and he refuses to change it. Then it ends up down to the brilliance of the players, mainly Kane, to get us out of the jaws of defeat.
I meant the next manager not Conte who was never a good fit for us where all the reservations about him have come about .
 


I want Conte gone but that tells me everything about the mentality of the players if true.

Heartless, spineless gutless cowards who can’t hack pressure.

Squad needs (again) a major overhaul.

Are the undoubtedly world class training & player facilities that we have making them too comfortable?!

Are players coming to us thinking ‘oh great! Decent wages, top facilities, London lifestyle, not as much pressure as the top top clubs to win things coz it’s not expected so we can coast’?
 
I want Conte gone but that tells me everything about the mentality of the players if true.

Heartless, spineless gutless cowards who can’t hack pressure.

Squad needs (again) a major overhaul.

Are the undoubtedly world class training & player facilities that we have making them too comfortable?!
incoming unpopular take.

And that may include getting rid of Son and Kane as well. They are two of the players who are still here from Poch's early run. We can't just assume that it is just Dier and Davies begging for him to come back.
 
incoming unpopular take.

And that may include getting rid of Son and Kane as well. They are two of the players who are still here from Poch's early run. We can't just assume that it is just Dier and Davies begging for him to come back.
Apparently Dier and Davies are whats ruining a football squad.

Poch's 'painful rebuild' remark gets quoted often. I didn't know a painful rebuild meant selling players that everyone hates.
 
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