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Manager Antonio Conte

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He is a good manager, the problem is that bigger clubs won't be going after him due to his style of play and smaller clubs probably won't either because he'll want a shit ton of money to spend which they won't be able to do.
Big clubs don’t care about style of football that much. Man City, Barcelona and maybe Assna aside, all other big clubs have had more defensive managers in recent years.
 
Big clubs don’t care about style of football that much. Man City, Barcelona and maybe Assna aside, all other big clubs have had more defensive managers in recent years.
Football goes through cycles and at the moment the Guardiola school is what's in demand.

Take something like pressing, pretty much all top managers have their teams press high up the pitch to win the ball back. It's easier to defend this way when the opponent isn't in your own half.

Conte doesn't do that because it doesn't fit with his footballing identity. There might be a few moments where his teams press but it isn't part of the identity of his teams. He dominated the Prem in his first season, but when Pep built his team it surpassed Conte's from the season before.

At this point in time, his philosophy isn't in demand at the big clubs. So he'll have to settle for clubs a tier below that. Those clubs won't be able to spend the amount of money that he wants. Conte will probably want a big wage as well. He also isn't very professional which fans might view as refreshing but isn't viewed very positively by the people who employ him.
 
I see. I agree with most of your observations there. I'm what I understand is referred to as a 'legacy' supporter these days. My Spurs journey began in the Autumn of 1977. First game attended was Coventry away 1981. I attended regularly at WHL from 87 - 98 but became a Paxton Road season ticket holder from 99 until 08. I packed up going after Spurs won the League Cup under Ramos. I was disgusted at the treatment of Martin Jol tbh. Never got over it. I had ENIC weighed up by then and decided direct action was the best way forward having been coerced into renewing for several seasons due to the waiting list.

I feel the need to explain this so you understand I have no Utopian expectations of THFC, ENIC, Levy, Conte or indeed anything connected to the N17 experience in general.

Over the years I frequented, The Park, The Milford, The Antwerp, The Connaught Tavern, The Ship, The Coach and Horses, Haringey Irish Centre and The Bell and Hare. Not all of them on the same match day of course but over a 15 year period of serious drinking; I got into all of these places before home games.

I've also been to most of the grounds in the top 2 English divisions on my travels and a fair few others too. Every home game was a 200 mile round trip for me as I live near Coventry.

I've done my bit for Spurs.

Utopia my arse.
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Things got shit, he bailed out

Fucking wanker
Honestly, that's Conte's MO, he never stays long at any club as like Mourinho, he eventually alienates everyone from the squad to the fans to the ownership.

Only place he stayed any longer than 2 years at was Juventus, and that was more likely because he's a club legend there as a player, and even then it was only just about 3 years.
 
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I am in love with a man, and his name is Antonio Conte.
This you champ?
 
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