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So we are mad Conte said the same thing a lot of us have been saying for awhile now? A lot of which is widely agreed with and understood to be the real issue.
Not really. I haven't said that was anyone's ambition. Just that it'd be a step up from where we are under "elite" manager Conte.
Yes but he is not blameless, he is contributing.Conte delivering some uncomfortable home truths for this club.
If you think the problem goes when Conte leaves you are very much mistaken!
Gareth Bale called this after Jose. No wonder he didn't hang about:If you play negative, grinding football that sucks the enjoyment out of the game and burns players out emotionally then there's not much chance of it working at a club who's mottos are "The game is about glory" and "To dare is to do".
After Pochettino burned out we needed a manager to bring the enjoyment back into the club and for the club to intelligently invest big money into fixing the defence which originally had been the foundation on which Poch had built his success. Instead we brought in two "winners" to try nick some silverware but who play negative, grinding football that sucks the enjoyment out of the game and burns players out emotionally. We failed to fix the defence and still heavily rely on the likes of Dier, Sanchez and Davies while also spending long periods of time with miserable full back options.
To compound that failure to fix the defence, both managers played to our weakness in defence rather than to our strengths in attack. Add in the fans becoming progressively turned off or even hostile to the lack of attacking footy and you get a toxic spiral.
And then he has the audacity to moan about them not improving.The man is literally playing the most cowardly football in the league. Sets us up playing low block and counter vs bottom of the league clubs (home and away) and then freaks out about them not being in control and not "having fire in their eyes and hearts"... He is conditioning them to be cowards by the way we play.
Just seen that press conference and honestly f**k Antonio Conte
There are some truths in what he said but doing that in a press conference is a pretty embarrassing way to deflect from your own uselessness
Should be sacked yesterday
Tbh this is perfect isn’t it, conte will go but he’s gone out swinging at the board so if levy doesn’t get this next one right that’s it all the heat now goes towards the board, it’s the best thing that could’ve happened in a way for him to do this publicly.
THST will be all over these quotes haha.
That being said Conte was never the right fit just like Jose and Nuno clones before him.
Time for a positive attacking manager please.
The Manager.It's hard to argue.
And he's not alone in thinking it - this is from 2018, after Juve beat us 2- 1 at Wembley to knock us out the CL
"Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini says he knew his team would beat Tottenham because Spurs "always miss something at the end". It's the history of Tottenham. We knew Tottenham have fantastic players and are an amazing side - but they concede many chances every game."
Changing the manager changes what, exactly?
The abject "failure" is a combination of many issues.If you think the abject failure of this club over the past 20 years is “as much” to do with Antonio Conte, then you should stop paying all that money for those tickets, because you’ve clearly not understood what you’ve been watching.