I'm grasping at straws here, but at least one silver lining of Conte's failure here at Spurs is that more of you will agree with my long-standing belief that the 5-3-2 formation is trash.
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Massive release clause too. Same with De Zerbi.
Rotterdam is a lot closer than Turin though. And he wouldn't act like he was doing us a favour...
But didn't Conte play 343, with three forwards, not 352?
What do you mean boring?
Rigid 5 at the back with no care for changing. Basically would be no different to having Conte, except we'd have a Portuguese manager instead of an Italian one.
Although, our track record with Portuguese managers is impeccable.
Conte played it at Inter with Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez as the twin strike force and boy did they each score for fun.
No, we don't. If anything, it's the other way around, given we're at 57% of wages to turnover and have more room to increase our wages than any other club.
But people have narratives they need to stick to, so...
Yeah, I thought the same.
I'll say it again. Because once (ONCE ffs!) we bungled the manager appointment, it is now the norm?
Of course I can see a bunch of you hoping this ends up being the case at the detriment of the team, just to say "I told you so," but unfortunately for you it won't.
Conversely, big bollocks could also be appointing someone who is unproven, but has all the ingredients. It's not like we can rock up to any manager anytime we like, even if they're managing Brighton or Wolves, and poach them. Once they have proven themselves there will be much more competition for them. And don't counter by telling me what Chelsea did, because that was just pissing away money. No club in its right mind acts that way.
Only two of us would like to welcome back Carrick?? 
A young, so far impressive coach who could build a new (and much needed)team/squad.
A young, so far impressive coach who could build a new (and much needed)team/squad.
Only before the cup game against Barcelona
I can't see how an unproven coach could have all the ingredients? That's like buying unlabled tins from the supermarket, they might be nice, they might be fermented fish.
I agree once a coach proves themselves they will be in demand, but we should be ambitious enough to go hard for those coaches before they get snapped up by the tier one clubs.
In all fairness, the Rodgers and Potter comparison is apples and oranges. One got sacked while the other was poached. And you're not going to poach a manager whose team is a mess.
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