It feels like he’s realised he made a mistake here and is keen to exit to allow him to be free to take another job in the summer. Hard to see him staying at Spurs long.
Conte | Spurs Manager
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran discuss a horrific month of December and a depressing FOUR defeats in a row - the latest coming against Wolves and Newcastle.
They discuss how much blame is on Ruben Amorim and rank our squad against other Premier League teams.
Do we have any chance of avoiding defeat at Anfield?
I think it's more to do with the type of player brought, Spurs fans may be more knowledgeable than me but it was of my knowledge that Conte wanted Wing backs and a CB in Jan and ended up with a cm and an attacking mid on loan. Levy having just recently brought wingbacks and a CB doesn't want to change them. There's definitely something deeper going on between the board and Conte.
There are way too many spurs fans here.
He is not asking for expensive players. Just functional ones for his system. They literally had Adama and somehow bottled the affair by dragging it out until Barça got involved.
I said it before he signed - he saw Mourinho's fat payout and thought i'll take that while I wait for a bigger job to come along.
His heart isn't in this at all.
His heart isn't in this at all.
And they'll never be banned because they'll never win the league
He didn't get Adama but got Kulusevski and Bentacur in January
I'm definitely in the minority here I think but I kind of admire that honesty. Instead of blustering BS and 'we go again' he seems to be being honest about the problems within the club and his own ability to take the club forward. A bit like Jose (or prime Jose at least) he's a ridiculously demanding and emotional guy who probably gets frustrated when he feels he's not supported or if he can't perform to the highest standard. He knows he made a mistake going there and is being honest about it.
Which may seem like a better window for you. But for Conte ?
Agree, I respect it too. Lots of people would limber on until they are sacked for the pay cheque. Fair play for respecting his employers and the club. A rare bit of honesty and integrity in modern football.
Yea, its so obvious that its a bigger mess there than he realised and now doesn't fancy it one bit!
City have some hoodoo against Spurs.How did they beat City.
Pep overthinks, Spurs have the right sort of players to hurt them, and City never take their chances. Forever the case whenever these two sides play.
Conte is an exhausting manager.
I was thinking Conte prefers to sit back and counter. But then Southampton beat them by pressing them.
Bentancur replaced 2 players (Lo Celso and Ndombélé). But you can consider it an upgrade quality-wise. Even though Bentancur is not “PL-proven” and has been pretty underwhelming over the last 18 months at Juventus. Kulusevski is definitely a long term gamble. And I like him and believe in him very much but he is nowhere near the end product.
The real weakness was the right side and he wanted Adama to fix that. It was an easy fix and it is a big deal for him that they didn’t get it over the line.
They were never getting Traore once Barca were involved. Play for Spurs or Barca? Tough choice that one. As for Bentancur, it will take him a couple of months to get up to the speed of the game, but even a player who is not up to the speed of the PL is still probably better than Winks. They have two very workmanlike players in midfield in Hojbjerg and Skipp, I think they need Bentancur to add something different.
The nonsense notion that Conte hasn’t been backed is laughable. He got two players that were available in January, and he should be thankful he got them. No one was throwing money around and players weren’t available. Fecking hell, Ralf got no one and neither did most clubs. How many other managers have threatened to walk? Some people in here are massively confusing what a winner looks like and what a toxic egomaniac looks like.
“Hey lads, you’re all shit. I’ve never lost 4 games out of 5 before in my life so before I get dragged down with you, I’ll probably walk. The money isn’t even worth sticking around and putting up with your shitness either.”
For someone who's such a good league manager, losing 4 out of 5 must be hard to take.
If he leaves would you take him??
I’m not sure he would cope with our lazy, spoilt squad
I’m not sure he would cope with our lazy, spoilt squad
Samid said:
Now I remember who I was arguing with @Champ . Those stats highlighted by samid shows how badly things are at spurs now. I just have to mention Champ because he taught I was wumming then. I typically don't try to bring up past event, but some poster doesn't learn.
They got rid of expensive players and replaced them adequately. The quality of the team might seem better but saying he was backed suggests something else. He definitely wasn't backed nearly enough to make a piss poor Tottenham capable of seriously challenging for the fourth spot. They only stand a chance if both Arsenal and United keep joking around and wasting easy points.
But January window is about fixing the issues. They did not. The biggest issue Spurs have is right-wing. They have 2 players who barely have championship level. Conte identified this very quickly as the absolute priority. And he didn't ask for a Hakimi or a Trent. He asked for f*** Adama. And Adama wanted to join them. It could have been done in the first week of january. But the board kept negotiating and hoping that Wolves would lower their price. Which ended up allowing Barça to get involved.
Maybe Levy and Paratici didn't want Adama at all. Maybe they think their asset Emerson needs the time to develop and it is worth sacrificing the rest of this season.
It is a "give me £200 million or I'm off in the summer" rant.
Sorry, what's this got to do with me??
Don't tell me I'm your new obsession as you've found out Poch isn't the Messiah??
Nah, I forgot who you were, had to go back a few pages just to remember the argument we had where you claimed I was wumming, yet I was proven right and things at spurs is awful and even their wins as noted in the post quoted has been very fortunate
Jesus wept.
The debate went like this: Spurs were 14th when Poch left, they aren't 14th now, and are in a better position right now then when Poch left.
I don't think that can be debated, as their league position justifies that outlook.
But I feel we have covered that all already and you have only brought it up again because you deem yourself to be correct (your not) and now look a little desperate.
Could be looking out for himself. He probably has looked at Mourinho bunny hopping from job to job stealing a wage. Thus future clubs or players might associate him with Mourinho.
Royal is rubbish, in the games I have watched of Spurs I have never seen him beat a man once. Which is fine if he was amazing defensively, which he is not. If they wanted an 'investment' They could of gone and and got some 20 y/o future wingback star, instead they got a bit of a nothing player, still have no idea why they purchased Doherty.
The only time I ever got banned here was in May 2005 for congratulating Liverpool on their CL win, so it could happen regardless.And they'll never be banned because they'll never win the league
That sounds quite fair.
The Liverpool of 2005 getting to call themselves “champions of Europe” was pure terrorism.
Aye, @golden_blunder and his hopefully now retired banning stick agree with you.
This is a spurs team that has had a pathetic level of investment in recent years, and when levy has decided to invest it has been poorly directed e.g. ndombele. Getting two Juve rejects doesn't correct that.
Your comparison doesn't make sense because conte clearly would have been assured by levy their would be significant investment in the squad for him to join spurs. He was the best manager of the market when he joined spurs, in comparison ralf was in no position to extract guarantees from the glazers because his management record doesn't really warrant being at the club
Spurs will be blamed for that but frankly, that's on Conte. It's not like Spurs have pretended to be big spenders in recent years. If Conte is surprised by this, its his fault.
The initial argument wasn't even about poch last season, you used the worse period in his tenure, just to try and justify your argument. Even then, spurs was like 6 points or 9 points behind fourth. If Arsenal wins the remaining game in hands, spurs will be much worse of behind fourth than poch worse spell. To even use that spell shows how desperate you are, when the argument was never about that time of his career. Reality is things aren't good at spurs now and your desperate attempt to justify it is really embarrassing
Hope there's still a chance united get him.
I'd be over the moon if Conte comes in. I see MCT the type of player who could really flourish under him.
Pathetic from Conte and I'm glad united didn't go for him, 1st decision the club has gotten right in sometime.
Hope we stay away from him.
Trying to argue that Pochettino is a better manager than Conte is absolutely fecking laughable, to say nothing of the fact that Conte cannot possibly be blamed for their current position as he came in partway through the season. Haven't you been banging the drum about how PSG losing the title last year was actually Tuchel's fault and not Poch's given the latter took over when PSG were a whopping one point behind Lille?