Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

Dougal · Mar 9, 2023

davidclarke said:
I don’t get the hang up about the ‘cost’ to pay him off - he’s getting his money til the end of the season whether he goes now or not. I really wanted it to work out but it isn’t going to, and a big club with a decisive owner/chairman and a plan would act now

It’s a lack of consistency. Mourinho got the boot with a cup final days away. Yet we have to wait a slow painful death for Conte’s removal, because we have an outside chance of top 4? A couple of weeks ago we could have given a new competent and focussed manager a shot of top 4 and 2 cup runs. It’s complete dereliction of duties from both Levy and Conte. At least Conte had health issues as some sort of reasoning. What’s Levy’s excuse? Go-karting negotiation?

A Bit Much · Mar 9, 2023

muel said:
How he’s made it to 10:19 without being sacked is beyond me. I would have kicked his door down this morning

I don't really understand what's taking long. It's not like Conte will be full of ideas about how to change things and sell himself to levy that it'll improve.

As we know ad nauseam on this forum, the only way Conte can improve things is to get world class players - well the window is closed and this is his lot this season.

If levy says "so then Antonio, whats the plan for forest then" he'll be told exactly the same as last night. I can't see how he accepts that and wants to continue.

L-man · Mar 9, 2023

Suspect we'll twiddle our thumbs for a couple of weeks whilst we limp to 3-4 points against Forest & Southampton before agreeing to part ways by mutual consent in the international break

It's completely unacceptable that he has massively underperformed this year and continues to publicly deride the club

davidclarke · Mar 9, 2023

Dougal said:
It’s a lack of consistency. Mourinho got the boot with a cup final days away. Yet we have to wait a slow painful death for Conte’s removal, because we have an outside chance of top 4? A couple of weeks ago we could have given a new competent and focussed manager a shot of top 4 and 2 cup runs. It’s complete dereliction of duties from both Levy and Conte. At least Conte had health issues as some sort of reasoning.

If only we had a month break in club football this season when this could have been proactively addressed one way or the other…

If they didn’t at least do some contingency planning at that point then there’s no hope for us under this ownership. Might get lucky once or twice but never succeed by design

YB123 · Mar 9, 2023

Harrier said:
Yeah Levy brought on Sanchez last night didn’t he when there were attacking options on the bench?!

We all agree it was shocking from Conte but there is a much bigger picture here and I guarantee we've used an example of tactical switch and sub for about 5 different managers and a dozen players now.

felmani26 · Mar 9, 2023

Ghost Hardware said:
I can only assume its because we currently have no idea who to replace him with and he thinks Conte has a better chance then Mason of getting top 4.

But, and we can only assume right now, if Conte's head has gone and indeed the start of open rebellions such as Richarlison, I don't see how the team will pick themselves back up to end the campaign on a high.

If Conte remains for the remainder of the season then we are heading one way - South!

WannaDanceWithUdogie · Mar 9, 2023

We either sack him now and give a new manager time to bed in or limp towards the end of the season scraping draws

Norgie · Mar 9, 2023

teenageYIDDO said:
We either sack him now and give a new manager time to bed in or limp towards the end of the season scraping draws

What like at Wolves? Something has to change now, it can't carry on like this till the end of the season.

Westmorlandspur · Mar 9, 2023

Trix said:
It needs to be done now, as in today. There is still a way to salvage this season an make it feel like a win but it won't be with Conte in charge. There are 3 managers that are currently out of work that would give us a bounce right now imo, so there are no excuses that no one is available. Sound them out this morning make a decision and get things moving so they have the rest of the season to assess and get to know the players before pre season.

Please don’t say Benitez in that three. We have had 3 and a half years of defensive football. Had enough.

Ghost Hardware · Mar 9, 2023

felmani26 said:
But, and we can only assume right now, if Conte's head has gone and indeed the start of open rebellions such as Richarlison, I don't see how the team will pick themselves back up to end the campaign on a high.

If Conte remains for the remainder of the season then we are heading one way - South!

Mate I don't disagree but im trying to guess at what Levy is thinking. Like Trix said, it shouldn't even be that difficult, there are 4 available managers who are all very good and we have known for months he likely wont be here come summer. There is no logical reason why we couldn't fire him and have his replacement in by next week but this is Levy we are talking about, he actually has no idea what he's doing when it comes to football. He's made that abundantly clear.

Dougal · Mar 9, 2023

Ghost Hardware said:
I can only assume its because we currently have no idea who to replace him with and he thinks Conte has a better chance then Mason of getting top 4.

That’s the worrying thing. Poch is seemingly ready to step in which saves Levy money. Why isn’t this happening now? Because it won’t happen at all?

Albertbarich · Mar 9, 2023

Westmorlandspur said:
Please don’t say Benitez in that three. We have had 3 and a half years of defensive football. Had enough.

Tuchel, Poch, Gallardo

felmani26 · Mar 9, 2023

Ghost Hardware said:
Mate I don't disagree but im trying to guess at what Levy is thinking. Like Trix said, it shouldn't even be that difficult, there are 4 available managers who are all very good and we have known for months he likely wont be here come summer. There is no logical reason why we couldn't fire him and have his replacement in by next week but this is Levy we are talking about, he actually has no idea what he's doing when it comes to football. He's made that abundantly clear.

I hear you.

It's one big clusterfuck of a mess that Levy presides over.

GMI · Mar 9, 2023

spursfan77 said:
These two make quite good points about removing him now is the right time. Journalists rounding on him now.

Not that Oliver Kay will know for sure but if he saying saying our replacement is 'available and ready to go' that kind of narrows it down

Mattspur · Mar 9, 2023

I think if Levy was still running the football side of the club he'd get rid of Conte now, but I'm not sure Paratici will act as swiftly. He's Paratici's man and I think he still believes in him.

GMI · Mar 9, 2023

HildoSpur said:
I've been a huge supporter of Conte and desperately wanted him to succeed here but clearly this is not working. This club is such a mess on and off the pitch I don't even know where to start. Whoever comes in is going to have one hell of a task on their hands.

Yeah, that wig avatar has to go.. :whistle:

felmani26 · Mar 9, 2023

GMI said:
Not that Oliver Kay will know for sure but if he saying saying our replacement is 'available and ready to go' that kind of narrows it down

Welcome Jesse Marsch!

PLTuck · Mar 9, 2023

Hiding behind the history is just cowardly. Milan may be more successful than us Tony but wtf has that got to do with the team you are in charge of playing like shit 3 times in a week?

Starting to dislike the man now. It's all got a feel of "this is as good as it gets" about it.

Just pack your bags and fuck off. Sick of this shit, boring football.

philll · Mar 9, 2023

teenageYIDDO said:
We either sack him now and give a new manager time to bed in or limp towards the end of the season scraping draws

Get rid now. Give someone fresh a chance to a) do better in the run-in and b) evaluate the squad going into the transfer window. If there hasn't been a plan in place all this time since the noises started coming out about uncertainty (never mind the performances/results) it's totally inexcusable and Levy's position is untenable (as if it wasn't already).

thebenjamin · Mar 9, 2023

Is Gallardo available?

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