If we are to make a compelling case for Antoni Conte to survive, let alone survive at Tottenham, then history tells us that Daniel Levy must not meddle and cannot repeat past mistakes. This is a fact, not an opinion. The opening gambit of Conte’s arrival is that he might arrive with Fabio Paratici. These two worked together at Juventus and achieved great success.
When Pochettino was at Southampton, his director of football was Paul Mitchell. During that period, Mitchell was involved in scouting Victor Wanyama, Dejan Lovren, Ricki Lambert, Adam Lallana, and Luke Shaw.
Poch came to Spurs and Mitchell continued his work, this time for Koeman. During that period he was involved in snapping up Saido Mane, Duasan Tadic, Graziano Pelle, Ryan Bertrand, Shane Long, and Fraser Forster.
Then Mitchell was reunited at Spurs with Mauricio and here Kieran Trippier, Heung-min Son, Toby Alderweireld, and Dele Alli were all acquired. This list of players found at Spurs would have been longer, but Daniel Levy sacked Mitchell and placed him on a mind-boggling 16th-month gardening leave.
Conte and Paratici will not succeed if Levy interferes, and that is what has frequently dogged our transfer activity. Levy has spent a lot of money on players, regrettably, he blew an awful lot of that on players that didn’t pan out because the managers didn’t deem them to be players that they necessarily required. How many of Levy’s Ligue1 acquisitions have been successful?
And don’t even consider the consequences of Conte seeing no transfer activity whatsoever as was inflicted upon Pochettino.
Things need to radically change – and immediately – or this is Levy’s last roll of the dice.
i used babelfish
indeed. but the bookies, media and advertisers have all profited while we were entertained.
In the end it always comes down to good vs evil 😉
i’m hoping for one of those white knight investment angels to sweep in and buy Enic out , wipe out the debt with promises of a new vision, project…oh wait a minute
whole heartedly agree. i;m open to hearing ideas as to how we might influence the situation, any change we want will need to be forced upon ENIC. I assume the most valuable revenue streams we can influence are merchandising (perhaps matchday catering )and sponsors/advertising including the world famous naming rights. These are all inked to the public image of the club and its fans?
I smell a glimmer of optimism, please don’t encourage it. It’s the hope what does for me
Plain truth as i read it
Hmmm….The appearance of Marina Ambrovich pet/Humter Biden toy GaGA would confirm my suspicions about Enic, levy and lewis. Not a nice vibe thenight.
The sad truth is that it is NOT his last roll of the dice, he will keep rolling them until someone with more money than sense gives him a bajillion bucks for the whole enterprise.
uncle Jo watches on his yacht
what you sticking in yer haggis yer numbskull
Yes, you could be right, with Levy needing to position Spurs for the inevitable reappearance of the hideous ESL.
I’m struggling to understand why this ‘appointment’ of Conte and Paratici is taking so long. Both are free agents so why the painfully prolonged negotiations? I’m not convinced this is as done a deal as we’re being led to believe. If anyone can cock it up (probably deliberately) the little twat Levy can. We still might get Potter or Howe.
Has Conte ever had to look on Google to see who his new signings are ?. I suggest we bring back Danny as his Google Adviser.
Trouble is at Tottenham you get a lot of money for failure and it’s so easy to fail under Levy.
Hopefully at least we’ll get Ga Ga for some entertainment before Christmas.
Kane’s away
Nuthing will change as long as levy is in control until he dies or leaves this will be spurs buy crap sell out best no ambitions but levy will say he is ambitious etc etc etc but where is it I would of rather kept whl n spent the cash on the best players we get win loads n still be making money n get new stadium that way until the muppet goes we won’t see any titles or cups I want to ko the baldly melt
I would agree with every word re: Conte and Levy, except the last bit
about Levy’s last roll of the dice. That’s just wishful thinking.
Who’s going to stop him rolling his dice?
This guy simply will not tolerate a club where he will not have control of transfers etc., Levy will perform miracles to get him without huge investment in new players and retaining the services of Kane.
What u smoking can I have some ur head sound great total muppet
Possible Initial 3-5-2 line-up?
Son (Kane/Lukaku)
Ndombele Celso
Reggy Hojberg Doherty
Davis Rodon Andersen
Lloris
Subs: Hart, Dier, Tanganga, Aarons, Skipp, Moura, Scarlett, Sessegnon etc
Supposed to be unhappy that his reward for winning the League was the sale of his best players and a twenty percent wage cut for the players.
Conte was fed up with Inter for the same reasons Levy has ruined Spurs. Another waste of time.
Levy needs to go. ENIC aren’t going anywhere yet but Levy should go. Now.
So we are back to ” back the manager “.
ENIC fc is the 9th circle of hell. Round and round it goes….
Levy’s last roll of the dice – that might be wishful thinking – cannot see how he goes unless we are bought out – which won’t be happening any time soon.
Fabrizio Romano has said… Conte’s main issue at Inter was the club hierarchy’s perceived apathy towards the team, not funding.
Romano explained that Conte was irked by the fact that Inter chairman Steven Zhang was never in Milan and only arrived in the city to celebrate the club’s title triumph.
Levy watches a lot of matches, at the Stadiums.
Money. That’s why Levy might shock us all and change.
He needs Champions League football, and he needs Spurs to be challenging every year because the European Super League will come back.
If Levy doesn’t act it’s possible we could become a team stuck between sixth and tenth place, basically irrelevant.
Spurs could be locked out of the top five permanently and passed over by an Everton, Leicester, Leeds, Newcastle or some club newly enriched by some countries Oil Money.
Spurs as also rans might not get invited to the Super League. That’s Levy’s nightmare.
Well Said, H.
Conte clearly likes to win… hopefully he will have some sort of transfer market freedom guarantees signed in blood, from Blofeld, err, Levy.
I feel like we’re going round in circles here.
NO manager, however good, bad or mediocre will fair any better than the long list of sacked or quit managers we’ve had under ENIC.
ENIC won’t change. They can’t. They’ve set their MO and to change now would mean they got it wrong with ALL their previous appointments.
They could say, the stadium makes a difference but we know it won’t. It wasn’t built with a football team in mind. It’s an entertainment venue, football is just one of a number of events that will take place there.
The owners know there are enough mug punters to give over their hard earned however terrible the football is and wherever the team finish in the league.
Yes, there will be shouts of Levy out, maybe even a few banners. But ! The owners know a football fan is die hard. He/she will follow their team through thick and thin, good and bad.
The only way to stop this is to hit ENIC where it hurts. Their pockets. But we know that won’t happen. For every protesting fan not renewing their season ticket or buying a replica shirt there are ten waiting to snap them up. And there’s the rub.
We have to put up or shut up. The conversations about who the new manager will be will be exactly the same as they have been for the last 20 years. The managers themselves will ultimately move onto a new job. Meanwhile, Spurs will continue going round in circles.
I hate to break it to you but a leopard never changes it’s spots. One of Conte or the new Sporting director won’t make it past the new year having to painfully put up with the meddling of Levy.
Like anything in life. If you have been given tools to work with you didn’t choose and you’re not comfortable using, invariably you will fail. Managers are no different.
‘If we are to make a compelling case for Antoni Conte to survive, let alone survive at Tottenham, then history tells us that Daniel Levy must not meddle and cannot repeat past mistakes.’
The fact that he does meddle biggars belief.