Conte will be a disaster. As divisive as Mourinho, I really hope this doesn’t happen. Lots of grief ahead.
Conte is a special manager. He demands a lot and he will make sure the players he has will work for him and he's a great tactician. If there is a criticism i have of him, is that he has his "system" that he will utterly stick to and once he's been worked out, he doesn't try to change it. For us, once teams knew to shut out our front 3, we lacked creativity and didn't look like we would ever score just shuffling the ball around. His teams are really good on the counter and i believe Inter was too. It's when he needs to unlock a team i find his tactics a little stifling but it worked in the first season and obviously worked at inter. Good luck to him.
I was never adverse to Poch returning but Conte hopefully joining excites me. Hes a winner and will kick some ass in this sqaud . His teams play a 3-5-2 which I think suits our squad. Cant see us retaining Bale for next season, sounds like Ancelotti wants him back at Madrid and he hasn't got the work ethic for a Conte team. Would need 2 CB's, attack midfielder in the ten role and another striker. Wouldnt be surprised if Bergwijn is converted Into a RWB.
This is what makes it exciting. For me Mourinho was a disaster of an appointment as it was so obvious exactly how his tenure would go. Conte could end up being one of the greatest Spurs managers ever or an absolute disaster. Either way it is interesting for everyone.
made the fatal mistake of being too specific this time round. And way too early in the window. It was the slow game of cleverly calculated bullshit last time that had tonnes of fans by the balls. Cocky twat.
Assuming we go 352, I think we can see which areas need tweaking GK: Hugo RCB: Tanganga, Sanchez (Eyoma) CCB: Dier, Alderweireld LCB: Rodon, Davies RWB: Doherty (Lavinier) RCM: Lo Celso, Ndombele, Sissoko (Devine) DM: Skipp, Hojbjerg, Sissoko (Bowden) LCM: Hojbjerg, Winks (White) LWB: Reguilon, Sessegnon (Cirkin) RCF: Kane (Parrott) LCF: Son (Scarlett) So, about selling Ndombele and Sanchez to fix the defence?
Conte would get very frustrated very quickly, upset people and f*** off. He has succeeded with teams with some financial clout in their respective leagues. Not sure the 6th richest English club with a miser holding the purse strings is his formula for success.
A large salary does a lot of talking, they must see Levy as an easy touch, take the job on massive wages, don`t get backed properly, fail to improve the team, and then get sacked with a large pay off. Thank you very much, nice work if you can get it. You won`t find many turning down £10m a year (or whatever), regardless of any idle assurances they get.
This is why Kane's future is key to this decision. If circa £140m is about to land in the bank, it is crucial we have the right man in place to spend it. As much as I admire the work Potter has done at Brighton, which top player's agent is picking up the phone to Graham Potter and no CL football? With reports that Paratici has been approached too, the signs point to a summer spend similar to the Bale summer when we appointed Baldini specifically to oversee the transition. He did a terrible job, partly because he and AVB had never worked together and clashed over every signing, but also because the prospect of playing for AVB and no CL football just didn't appeal to the calibre of player we needed to replace Bale's input. The irony of course is that Conte's arrival might convince Kane to stick it out for one more year. So some fans might argue that whichever way you look at it, Conte is the most appealing idea.
Levy will be wanting a manager that can over achieve on a limited budget, and be also prepared to make use of the deadwood that he fails to shift, because he has priced them out of a move. I`m not sure that man is Conte, similar to Mourinho, a proven great manager he may be, but he appears to be a bad fit for the way Levy operates. The only way Conte works is if ENIC, Lewis and Levy have had a sudden epiphany, and completely change their approach, which is about as likely as Sissoko winning the Ballon D`or.
What caused things to unravel for him at Chelsea? Won the league setting all sorts of records then second season finished 5th but won the FA cup. Not exactly a catastrophe but obviously never cutting it for Roman. What went wrong?
Fascinating that when all is said and done, it would seem that after Nagelsmann was out, Poch genuinely became our #1 choice.
