Ex-Manager watch: Antonio Conte

[dtxspurs]

Any guesses as to what's going on here..

 

[Danfunkel]

Is there some competition I don't know about where posters have to see who can post the most vitriolic over the top bollocks they can muster?

I know there is always a post or two in the heat of the moment that manage to cut close to the line but this is like the 4-5th time I've read something like this in the last 24 hours and it's totally uncalled for and way too far over the line.

Get a fucking grip man!

Agreed. It’s literally only a sport after all. We take to too seriously.

 

[Nebby]

Name me a manager in the ENIC era that jas left Spurs and gone on to win and succeed. Nobody. Reputations are destroyed by our football club. Tottenham Hotspur are becoming a poisoned chalice to managers/coaches.

A touch over dramatic. Look around the leagues. It's broadly speaking the same teams winning the same things year in, year out. Most managers bumble along. Very, very few get the chance to move up the ladder. And the "elite" level coaches - the guys that win things - all tend to move from one super club to another until they inevitably run out of time or luck.

 

[hughy]

Any guesses as to what's going on here..

 

[tommo84]

Name me a manager in the ENIC era that jas left Spurs and gone on to win and succeed. Nobody. Reputations are destroyed by our football club. Tottenham Hotspur are becoming a poisoned chalice to managers/coaches.

Or we have a tendency to appoint managers already on their way down (Jose, Conte, even Redknapp when you consider his age during his Spurs tenure), or managers who just weren’t up to it (Nuno).

Poch did ok at PSG - it’s an odd job because domestically the only way for them is down and the UCL is difficult to win.

I think Jol did ok at Ajax but ultimately his time there probably confirmed most people’s assessment of his time at Spurs - encouraging and good but far from great with a lower ceiling than hoped.

I haven’t included Santini because he was only here 10 minutes and Ramos’ entire managerial career both before and after his time with us suggests his success with Sevilla was an outlier.

 

[only1waddle]

Any guesses as to what's going on here..

Mason internally screaming "We're one nil down just go for it for fuck sake"

 

[parj]

I'm still Conte in.
Why? Is it because of the shit brand of football? Or the strange subs or line ups? Or his stubbornness? No.
It's because he represents for me the last chance saloon. If we can't get our house in order with this guy we never will.
But here we are, demanding Levy sacks Conte, and all the while most of us know what the real problem is.
Some here have even gone personal, accusing Conte of disrespect.
He is a decent man. All he has done is tell everyone some home truths. But for some reason people overlook that and let the real culprit off the hook again.

Getting a house in order often involves working with what you have. Conte isn't willing to do that. He wants to spend. He wants to knock the house down and re-build it. We are like a listed house, there are somethings you can change but others you can't.

 

[wadewill]

Any guesses as to what's going on here..

You can never know for sure, but on the looks of that, Mason and Kane are just baffled by that sub

Mason looks like he is pointing at the bench saying why not use them

That sub was a complete joke, the fact he is still here is a complete joke.

 

[jurgen11]

So the board are going to pin our Top 4 hopes on Conte - he has failed at every turn and he will fail at this one too.

 

[Cavehillspur]

Any guesses as to what's going on here..

Lol missed that last night, sums up my feelings at the time perfectly (re the sub)

 

[Snarfalicious]

I also think it's a great idea to keep a manager for a couple of crucial matches where we will probably drop points and lose any hope of Top 4 before making a move to sack him.

 

[PhezTHFC]

He didn't want to join Leeds mid season but he is not at a club and is available. I'd think if we approached him he would come.

Why has he left River may i ask? Am not upto date with whats happened

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

SC info stat: The average time in between a poster saying he's "done" with Spurs or a variation of that and returning to carry on posting is 54 minutes

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Why has he left River may i ask? Am not upto date with whats happened

Literally won everything he could possibly win and wanted to come to Europe for a new challenge. He was going to leave a season early but decided to extend for a season. He said he would go back later in his career. He was essentially Rivers Alex Ferguson.

 

[easley91]

 

[TOLBINY]

So the board are going to pin our Top 4 hopes on Conte - he has failed at every turn and he will fail at this one too.

Perhaps we should appoint the bloke who got us to top 4 last season!

 

[USAYID]

Why has he left River may i ask? Am not upto date with whats happened

Hi contract ended and he wants to coach in Europe next.

 

[only1waddle]

SC info stat: The average time in between a poster saying he's "done" with Spurs or a variation of that and returning to carry on posting is 54 minutes

Do you have any possession based stats to liven the thread up?

 

[TheHodFather]

A touch over dramatic. Look around the leagues. It's broadly speaking the same teams winning the same things year in, year out. Most managers bumble along. Very, very few get the chance to move up the ladder. And the "elite" level coaches - the guys that win things - all tend to move from one super club to another until they inevitably run out of time or luck.

Fair bit of truth in this. Germany is the obvious one where your chances of success are determined first and foremost by whether or not you're called Bayern Munich. In Italy it looks like Napoli will win the league and fair dos, but that'll be the first time since 2001 that a team not called Juventus, Internazionale or AC Milan has won it. Since then it's been 11 titles for Juventus, 6 for Inter and 3 for AC Milan with one year not awarded due to Juventus's match fixing(?). The Spanish league got a little exciting around the turn of the millenium but since Valencia won it in 2004 it's been 10 titles for Barca, 6 for Real and 2 for Atletico.

 

[RuskyM]

Even if we had a better chance of getting top four with him (we don’t): who cares about top four? What, we get another season of dull group games and then going out pathetically to the first decent team? Fuck that. The notion you have to be there to improve has completely been ripped up by Arsenal and United this year, both of whom have been much better whilst being in Europa (conversely with us). This isn’t me saying I don’t want to be in it: I don’t care. I definitely don’t care enough to keep this miserable experiment going when no one wants it.