Apparently speaking the truth gets you fired these days. Managers are expected to lie to protect the players, who are paid millions to perform, feelings. Seems to be a lot of snowflakes in the Spurs organisation, probably one of many reasons they never win anything.Conte is not wrong and any manager worth his salt would give Spurs a wide berth. Especially in their current state
A match made in heaven.Seems to be a lot of snowflakes in the Spurs organisation
Football in the premier has moved on since poch was sacked a lot of teams, teams with less money than spurs play better football than when poch was their last! Poch must be desperate to go back because we know you never go back!
When was the last time they managed to sign a player that any of the top teams were in for? Vertonghen maybe?Their signings are bad
The corporate sector in general. Proper old boys network.The banking sector says hi.
Their great team coincided with the league being the weakest it had ever been. United, Arsenal, Liverpool & Chelsea all rebuilding, City treading water before Pep.
The Poch Spurs side wouldn't finish top 4 today.
That all plays into the big problem at spurs which is the cognitive disconnect between expectations and what's achievable.
They can't compete with the rest of the "big 6", they won't be competing with Newcastle much longer. Without Kane they'd be 10th this season, and a future without Kane is coming around pretty quickly.
However the little taste of competitiveness they got when everyone else was rebuilding has made the fans think they can compete for trophies, and has allowed the club to sell that idea to several managers (although I suspect Conte has killed that on Saturday, as he and his agent are probably telling everyone else what they really think behind closed doors as well)
Their signings are bad, 5 of their 10 most expensive players are on loan. Levy hides behind the managers and players' failing, no one's even seen Joe Lewis for years.
It's very hard for me to see a future that doesn't involve them stuck between the top teams and midtable, a bit like Moyes' Everton in the old big 4 days when they seemed to finish 5th or 6th every season - except I think it's very possible that someone like Brighton get into Europe and with their much better management, are able to stay up in the conference/europa spots for a few years.
Think difference from Everton is they are in London in a 60k stadium which the fans gets charged an absolute fortune to attend mean there turn over will be top 5 in premier! But they do have the stadium to pay of drop out top four they lose out on 50m+
I said at the time of the transfer that I couldn't believe the money this guy was going for, but, other people in football probably knew better than me. Always seemed to spend more time on his arse, or whingeing at the ref/everyone else, than making a significant contribution.When you spend £60M on a striker in the summer who hasn't scored a single league goal and it's March you know your transfer policy is completely fucked
Very wise, too.They were already seeing people not turn up under Mourinho and last season.