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Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

Rout-Ledge

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Really? A world beater?

I know everyone is miserable at the moment but the rewriting of history is quite something.
World beater is hyperbole but he was playing brilliantly in the second half of 2021-22. The amount of 3+ deficit demolitions we inflicted in that season was incredible.
 

muppetman

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World beater is hyperbole but he was playing brilliantly in the second half of 2021-22. The amount of 3+ deficit demolitions we inflicted in that season was incredible.
The whole team hit a bit of a purple patch, but the idea that he's ever been anything other than a very limited player is a huge stretch for me.
 

fishhhandaricecake

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“They can change a lot of manager but the situation will not change. Antonio isn’t wrong”.

Aka = the problem is Levy.

Everyone should be able to see it plain as day now.
 

Guntz

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I mean...., he did get us into the top 4 with Sessegnon, Emerson, Dier, and Davies as starters.

That sounds like a miracle to me!
 
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SpursForever71

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just heard this back, and yes same culture still exists within the club. Also as i havent been following Serie A this season, didnt realise Napoli were so far clear. So another one (whether player or manager) that suffers at Spurs but nowhere else :(
 

taidgh

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Strikes me that both Conte and Jose are still pretty bitter that we blemished their records.
Mou was on the decline well before he came to us. Conte obviously still has it. I agree with the post above saying the culture is wrong here.
 

DiVaio

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I mean...., he did get us into the top 4 with Sessegnon, Emerson, Dier, and Davies as starters.

That sounds like a miracle to me!
He got us top4 with 4th/5th best squad in the league.
Considering we didn’t play in Europe when the rest of our competition played it was a good job, but nothing like a miracle.
 

For the love of Spurs

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just heard this back, and yes same culture still exists within the club. Also as i havent been following Serie A this season, didnt realise Napoli were so far clear. So another one (whether player or manager) that suffers at Spurs but nowhere else :(

pretty obvious. We are like a person whose relationships constantly fall to pieces and everyone who leaves them ended up married and good with someone else. We are the problem.

It why the whole sack Ange thing is such a waste of time. We don’t even have Kane anymore to save us in tight games. Might as well give a manager time.
 

Gbspurs

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He got us top4 with 4th/5th best squad in the league.
Considering we didn’t play in Europe when the rest of our competition played it was a good job, but nothing like a miracle.
I don't remember us having the 4th best squad.

I do wonder what might have happened if we truly backed Conte. One thing is for certain his first season we looked really good at times.
 

Chirpystheman

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We were in 4th when he got sacked as well and we had had Europe that season. Funny how he was sacked for ranting about the players and then within a year the majority are moved out. He had gone through a lot that year with friends dying, emergency surgery. He needed time and we didnt give it to him.
 

Trix

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I don't remember us having the 4th best squad.

I do wonder what might have happened if we truly backed Conte. One thing is for certain his first season we looked really good at times.
People seem to conveniently forget this. Yes his second season was a disaster, but he lost all interest after the Summer window imo and then blew up for that reason(plus all the bereavements). Like many others he wasn't backed, end of story for me. Yes he could have handled things miles better, but he knew it was a lost cause and so sulked and bitched his way to a pay off........ because he could.
 
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Mr Pink

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He's so right.

The absolute frustration he must of felt. A total winner, surrounded by people who didnt care about it as much as he did.

Levy and ENIC are just so predictable and their MO will never change.

It stll amazes me why so many fans still think there isnt a problem with them.
 

Rout-Ledge

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He’s a great manager and we were great under him for a short period at the end of that first season. He clearly decided he was done with it in the second season and effectively downed tools.

It’s a real shame because if we’d done a bit more for him in the summer window I think he would’ve given it a proper go. We obviously needed to sign him Bastoni (even if it cost more than we wanted to pay) and giving him Lenglet instead was probably the final straw.
 
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