From Ally Gold’s latest piece: Some within the club claim the Italian has delivered more home truths behind the scenes to Daniel Levy in just three months than the Spurs chairman has been told in years. Whatever the Tottenham hierarchy might have told themselves about the trajectory of the club, they need only look at decisions made in recent years and the subsequent slump on the pitch and their dwindling connection with the fans off of it to bring them crashing back down to reality. They must listen to Conte, because he knows what a club must look like on the inside to deliver success. He told football.london ahead of the game: "I hope I transferred my thoughts to my club because I repeat, I have my vision. I'm here to try to help my club to improve. ————————- What I’d give for an Amazon All or Nothing now with Conte in charge!
It's brilliant to have a coach who tells it like it is. This must be part of the secret of his success. Football should have no place for politics, it's a simple game and needs straightforward decisions. Conte clearly will not suffer fools of any kind, rich or not.
To be fair mate, the Arsenal one this season is going to be unreal. So much **** going on. Can’t see Conte liking the Prime cameras tbh
Yeah I like his directness, he’s quite blunt with his language but he’s not wrong when he said the club need to close the gap on the teams above.
Yeah I’m looking forward to theirs. Enjoyed all of the Amazon stuff that I’ve seen so far. I just wanna see Conte rolling about the place, probably the type of bloke that tells the tea lady she’s doing it wrong, let alone the home truths to Levy. Would love to see him having chats with Ndombele/ Lo Celso too, that’d be TV gold.
I do like how, while we have the arm of a Lego Minifigure, Burnley apparently have goal kicks and corners please log in to view this image
No, seriously, how are Burnley giving up the majority of possession in their own penalty area? please log in to view this image
What he said to sky italia isn’t good tbh. I’m starting to think he walks in the summer, the January window didn’t go as he expected and to say the squad is weaker now than before is damning imo
So did he take the job and was lied to about what sort of players they would be signing or is he lying and trying to shift blame elsewhere because things have gone sour?
Interesting that these four players were important once they left, but at best it's questionable they were Gil - never got a chance to play in his natural position, to the point we changed our formation when Son was injured instead of giving Gil a shot Ndombele - nuked his bridges from orbit Lo Celso - lacking fitness, yet only getting short cameos off the bench Dele - a shell of the player he was pre-injury bug (but let's just lazily blame his Twitch career...) Clearly there's no issue with Ndombele and Dele leaving in January for reasons that are opposite sides of the same coin, the former needing to get out of the club if it meant feet first and the latter needing a change of scenery for the good of getting his career back on track, on the other hand Bryan is one of those aggravating moved because the second he gets some games in his natural position at Valencia he shows what he can do which he never did when playing as a RW or AM under both Nuno and Conte When it comes to Lo Celso, there's the ever-growing feeling that we need to play 352 but allowing Lo Celso and Ndombele to go out on loan has prevented effectively boxed us in to playing 343 even in games where we need an extra body in midfield because if we played 352 that would basically be Bentancur, Skipp and Hojbjerg with Winks in reserve - and after that it's Harvey White and Alfie Devine, both players we can believe could be parachuted into a team in the League One playoff spots and fit right in, but they're raw talents yet both are a knock or a suspension away from having to play This is where loaning out both Ndombele and Lo Celso does look odd, because while Ndombele's walking papers were signed when he dawdled off against Morecambe, there's no reason to not keep Lo Celso around as not only would that be giving him half a season to play his way into fitness and, more importantly, Conte's plans - something he could do without Ndombele in the way playing in the similar role - so there wouldn't be the niggling sense of dread that Skipp or Hojbjerg could be out for a few weeks every time they're limping after a rough challenge as we could say that we're not going to rely on an U23 player or just throw our hands up and speculate what Pape Matar Sarr will be like based on the 16 minutes of the AFCoN he played
I don’t think he was upset about any of the 4 leaving, I think he had made his mind up on them and was more than happy to see them leave in January. Imo he’s more disappointed with the lack of incomings. I think he was expecting more than signing 2 out of favour Juve players. He talks about ready made players but the club want to develop players, this is worrying as this is the sort of thing that should have been agreed during talks prior to him taking over. If they’re already disagreeing and he’s being vocal already then I really do fear he walks in the summer.
He’s sounding like Poch at the fed up stage and Mourinho at the fed up stage Ambition won’t get anywhere under ENIC Levy has previous for lying to his managers so yeah he would do it again
