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Didn’t we hear that we’d offered him and extension and he put the talks on hold I thought
This was when he joined not subsequently
Didn’t we hear that we’d offered him and extension and he put the talks on hold I thought
If we were going to sack him before the end of the season now is the only point doing that makes sense. We have two weeks of International games which would give whoever came in a bit of time to work.
If he lasts the break then one could well assume Levy is 100% committed to letting him see out his contract. Or considering we have had ITK that the board have supposedly decided on their top target there is also the chance he may not be available until summer and the board consider Mason too big of a risk for an extended period.
Of course I say all that but I’d also not be surprised if we lost our first game after the break and Levy fired him then. Ether way I don’t really see the point in criticising Conte anymore, everyone knows he’s off, players, board, press.. at this point it just feels like waisted energy.
Not sure how you can call your employer penny pinching when he’s paying you £15m a year …
For me the hypocricy of These comments is standing out. If the penalty incident would not have happened and we won the game Conte would go on how tremendous we defended the lead and that we are on a good way.You know what really pisses me off? People's inability to understand that you can believe in two statements that in part oppose each other. Does my fucking head in. You can be in support of Conte's comments AND want him gone at the same time....
Huh? Your maths is way, way off. All below sums according to Transfermarkt.No it doesn’t, because Arsenal have outspent us 2 seasons running - £500m over 2 summers and prepared to drop a further £100m this winter despite not kicking a CL football for 6 years.
I accept we have a more limited budget - why oh why then, if we had £110m available after finalising then Romero deal did we spend £40m on a “club signing” and a guy who had to remain on loan for the rest of the season.
Conte was essentially given £75m this summer - Man United spent £80m on one shit player alone
The problem with that is that he is talking about twenty years.Yes, I was banging on about this last night. That presser was purely directed at the players, not Levy.
He might be frustrated with Levy too and desperate to call him out, but he didn’t in that interview last night.
The problem with our spending is that its not targeted. What had stopped us doing as Liverpool did and address their 2 biggest weaknesses by breaking transfer records to get the best players. The answer is Levy. He would rather spend 20m on 5 players than 100m on 1.That’s not enough for some fans…. They just trot out the same old crap about Levy / the Club being penny pinching etc regardless of how much we spend.
likely the same fans who whinge about the stadium debt….
Davies has been a good servant and I certainly feel has been a good signing overall. It’s just, he is one of those players that is 7.5/10 every week. Which is fine but you don’t really trust him up against Salah for instance or the better wife forwards as he is just a bit limited.Disagree massively regarding Skipp and also Davies, who has been pretty good for us in recent games and was out injured yesterday - if he’d been playing I reckon we’d have won, rather than having Perisic on wing.
Dier is rubbish though.
Doubt Kulusevski is in there yet, so we come very close.Huh? Your maths is way, way off. All below sums according to Transfermarkt.
Arsenal have spent £320m over the past four windows (summer and winter, so two seasons total). We have spent £230m in that same time period; £275m if you include the Porro fee that will be paid this summer.
Levy signed Pochettino two very expensive players. He did so 18 months later than he would have had he been cannier. I'm more than happy, even as someone who isn't #LevyOut (nor am I #LevyIn) that he penny pinched towards the end the Poch era and cost us dearly. Both are on loan and could well end up leaving on frees. I agree our recruitment is not targeted, but you undermine your argument by saying Levy doesn't spend big on individual players. Since Poch, he has spent plenty.The problem with our spending is that its not targeted. What had stopped us doing as Liverpool did and address their 2 biggest weaknesses by breaking transfer records to get the best players. The answer is Levy. He would rather spend 20m on 5 players than 100m on 1.
Under Poch that could have been 2 players but now we have let it slip so far we probably need 5! This is the reason the spending has increased so much.
If old tight wad had just released the funds when we only needed a few we could have saved ourselves alot of money!!
And, had setup a proper scouting network and system so when we do break the record it's not on ndombele..The problem with our spending is that its not targeted. What had stopped us doing as Liverpool did and address their 2 biggest weaknesses by breaking transfer records to get the best players. The answer is Levy. He would rather spend 20m on 5 players than 100m on 1.
Under Poch that could have been 2 players but now we have let it slip so far we probably need 5! This is the reason the spending has increased so much.
If old tight wad had just released the funds when we only needed a few we could have saved ourselves alot of money!!
Correct, didn't even spot that. Kulusevski is in there for about 1/4 of his eventual fee nominated as a loan fee.Doubt Kulusevski is in there yet, so we come very close.
We go again
We go again
It’s a bit of a stretch to call him a bigot.The problem with that is that he is talking about twenty years.
How many players who were in the team twenty years ago are still playing for Tottenham now? Ten years? Even five years ago. There are very few left. That's the problem with talking about "the players". It's like talking about "the Working Class", "The Tories", "The Blacks", "The Muslims", "The Jews", the "Gooners", "The LGBTQ+ community". It's just bigotry: lumping a wholly disparate group together, merely because they have one thing in common and can be classified together in one lazy way.
Antonio Conte had a bigoted rant last night, blaming everyone but himself, including Levy, otherwise why mention "the club" and specify (wrongly) no trophies for twenty years?
It needs to be pointed out that he had also had a long rant at the officials at the end of the game. Their fault too? Or was he just moaning how bad his team had been?