In different circumstances I think Conte would have brought Eriksen back to the club. Would have made it easier to get a tune out of Alli as well.
I'm personally not keen on him after his 2nd season at Chelsea but as a coach/manager he is very good. Is it a difficult job? Sure. But when you consider he inherited Juventus in 7th, Chelsea in 10th and Inter in 4th his track record suggests he'll be able to improve THFC if he is sufficiently backed in the transfer market (I appreciate the squad and set of circumstances are different).
I’m hoping we’ve all been kept in the dark, and Amazon have been filming a season 2 over the last year or so. Can you imagine? Absolute carnage. One of those rare occasions where the sequel would be better than the original!
Maybe not the best choice to show a pair of photos where Conte looks enthusiastic in the first, then slightly pained and confused in the second My immediate thought was that Matt Doherty was involved somehow
Interesting. Makes sense practically for Paratici to fill in for the 'management' role but in general he has been far more visible and vocal than previous DOFs we've had, who preferred working from the shadows. I guess the new approach creates a useful buffer for Levy but it does also reflect the way the game has changed with the times since we last had someone in the role. Social media plus the ubiquity of these dramatised documentaries mean that a modern DOF has a fair chunk of PR in his job description.
There's a few articles bouncing around suggesting that Harry Winks is the player who got the ball rolling on Nuno's dismissal with his comments after the Vitesse match The Twitter fanbase are currently tying themselves in knots with this information
Most Tier 1s have said he was on borrowed time from after the Arsenal game if not from day 1. If any player comments triggered something my money would be on Hojbjerg's interview after the Utd game.
To get the Conte signing over the line so quickly this week more than suggests decisions were made a couple of weeks ago at least. I have a feeling Nuno was a glorified (and expensive) caretaker from Day 1.
Looks like the pitch outline Nuno had on the dressing room floor has already been removed please log in to view this image Sort of removed. We're getting the polishers in during the international break...
It’s likely Conte will improve our players that could do with it. Personally I’m looking forward to him turning Hojberg into a beast. The guy has all the minerals required to be that man.
I certainly hope Conte is successful at Spurs. And I get that he certainly looks like a first rate appointment, and should be backed with money. I'm still churlish enough to point out that his hiring represents ENIC quadrupling or quintupling down on quick fixes instead of planning intelligently. There is a model which is used by many teams, including the successful ones around Spurs size. It consists of developing an identity, typically involving young players and exciting football, buying top young players, developing them into stars, selling them at a profit, and buying even better young players. The managers are similar enough in style so the squad doesn't need to be completely revamped when a new manager is hired. It's the formula Borussia Dortmund uses, and, at a lower budget level, what Brentford and many other clubs use. It was more or less the formula that accompanied the Pochettino hiring. I think thanks to Spurs home in London, they can execute it with an even greater degree of success than Borussia Dortmund, by running with the idea of Spurs being the ultimate penultimate team for the biggest stars. It would mean Spurs would be a team of hungry young stars, which would be ideal, IMO. ENIC seems determined to try to demonstrate they're smarter than all the clubs following this formula. So far they've demonstrated time and time again that they're stupider. The quick fix pattern they've been failing with has been used successfully by various teams, Chelsea in particular. But Chelsea and the other teams which have used it with some degree of success have enough money to keep throwing at problems until they get solutions. I don't think Spurs do. In any case, the quick fix pattern has much more often been a recipe for failure.
