Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte recently made it known that his squad got weaker following the January transfer window. The north London club let four players depart with only two arrivals.
Also, Conte added that he now knows the philosophy of Spurs is to bring in younger players to develop them rather than the finished product, which explains the transfers for players like Bryan Gil and Pape Matar Sarr.
However, with these comments and the need to rebuild to contend for trophies, former Arsenal legend Ian Wright stated that the Italian tactician knows he has made a mistake taking the Spurs job.
“It’s very confusing as to where Spurs are at at the moment and him like he’s only just realizing it,” Wright told Premier League Productions (via Express).
“He turned them down in the summer; they were saying about him not being able to get his coaching staff, [the job] not coming up to what he wanted.”
Wright states chairman Daniel Levy is making the same mistake with Conte as he did with former boss Mauricio Pochettino.
The ex-England striker cannot fathom why Levy has not backed the 52-year-old to the extent that he wanted. Wright finishes by saying Conte will now be lamenting his decision to take the job.
“When he came back to Tottenham once Nuno had gone, you would have thought, ‘well, his bargaining position is brilliant now; Daniel Levy cannot do the same thing he did with Pochettino and not back him,” Wright said.
“[But] you end up with Antonio Conte, and you’re still not backing him in the way that he wants to be backed. I’m looking at his demeanor in the interviews, and there’s a resignation of ‘I might have made a mistake here. I get that feeling. And he’s only got 18 months.”
The fifteen years before that brought 2 trophies and no champions league football. It’s not like they turned a relentless trophy winning machine into also rans.
They’ve turned the club into a very strong financial base, despite Covid. The summer will determine whether they should stay or go…the only job they have to do in the summer is invest in the team….
Because right now, Arsenal and Spurs are the most likely occupiers of 4th place come the end of the season? Assuming Wolves don’t usurp the ‘big boys’ and slip under the radar….
What because we have a poor squad that isn’t going to win anything and our recent performances have been appalling Conte isn’t very happy about that ..and our recent performances..Tottenham create their own anti Spurs agenda..it starts with the ego maniacal, narcissistic, over confident Messiah complex Daniel Levy..who not only chooses to run the great THFC swindle..he gets upset if anyone brings it up.
Levy is a Nutjob.
Conte has long amnesiac spells and ends up in places with no recollection of why or how he’s there….
that’s the only explanation of this situation
Certainly, at present there is no benefit to us in having this grandiose stadium; saddled with debt, we are less able to compete than before!
By then, this country’s leading clubs could well be playing, alas, in some European super league and we’ll perhaps have been left behind in what remains of our national league!
Quite!
How long have you been optimistic for? The last 20 years plus under ENIC with just one league cup (diminished in stature) to show for their quite abysmal efforts? There is a reason, you see, why optimism as regards Spurs is unfashionable!
A bad judge indeed; Chelsea may well build a ground like ours; and it could be 30 to 40 years, and so beyond many of our lifetimes, until Spurs have any success!
Yes, an accurate assessment of Spurs’ modus operandi under ENIC.
I dont get your point. Who cares who is going to build a stadium like ours.
(and fwiw my take is no-one will follow the Spurs model they can see how expensive it is).
God loves a trier
It’ll be the same as this space if ENIC are still at them helm.
Everyone is entitled to their views, but when the media/ex-pundits spout complete nonsense, it’s simply laughable.
Most of that Ian Wright interview is made up, polar opposite of what Antonio Conte has said, so who’s lying, him or Ian Wrong-wrong-wrong?
⬆️ Yes exactly that.
Sadly the media & ex-pundits have successfully dumbed down far too many & everything said gets taken as gospel, despite the fact it’s mostly fabricated or out of context or dramatically abridged, etc drivel.
Agree with you that the misfits had to go.
However, I think you are going to lose your money. This pattern is all too familiar.
He has had his sit down with the puppet master.
Its a spurs site so yes sure why not, but they should not have their views taken seriously, or used as an excuse for the usual 20 messages about Enic because there’s just no substance to them!
“Antonio Conte was not pleased with how he was portrayed by the media and accused them of ‘creating problems’ between himself and Tottenham following his interview with Italian TV.
The Spurs boss said he has been left ‘disturbed’ by the coverage of his sit-down chat and says what he said about the club and their transfer business was misinterpreted and taken out of context.”
So they should not get their views put on here, I don’t get it.
Ian Wrong wrong wrong.. Try watching or reading the whole interview.. Antonio said he was ‘certainly happy with the way Tottenham are working’… All Gooners are hoping and wishing for Conte to be full of regret and clashing with Baldy and walking before next season.. My monies on him staying….. Conte said there was a thousand reasons why four players left and two came in. In my eyes it was a good window because Tanguy and Dele have gone. No more player power at the club. Giant wage thieves stinking the place out.. It’s a shame Liverpool were in for Diaz, if we would have signed him then it would have been pretty great for a January window.
If we spent the money used to pay off Poch, Jose, Nuno, and probably Conte, to buy new players instead, we wouldn’t have needed to sack Poch in the first place.
Yeah, but when we pay off the debt in 30 years… watch this space!
If I think positively will Spurs win the Premier League and FA Cup?
Ian Wright seems mystified by ENIC. It’s not a mystery Ian, this is ENIC’s modus operandi.
Invest as little as possible in the football team and demand constant overachievement.
Sack the manager, appoint another.
Conte seems unhappy, but who wouldn’t be given our recent showings. However, he doesn’t seem to be an idiot. Unlike our scouts, he will have done his due diligence before coming here, and so would have known January isn’t exactly a month in which Spurs pull up trees.
He was given two players, one of whom already looks a solid addition and another whom we can give back if we don’t like him. Four out leaves him a bit short, but then again, those four hardly ever played anyway.
But I agree that the summer will be decisive. Back him fully and who knows, good things might happen!
Just what is there to be optimistic about ?
There’s an old saying. Be part of the solution not the problem.
Sadly your views are part of the problem with Spurs. The constant belief of jam tomorrow peddled by Levy has fans like you believing that things will come good.
Have to say, I’ve not heard the old (new) now we’ve got a new ground we’ll be able to compete line in a while. Is this the ground that’s saddled is with £700 million of debt still with no naming rights ?
Wake up lad, you’re being lied to on a grand scale.
Come on, who gives a sh** what a raft of ex-Gooners think. Merson? Wilshere? A couple of lowlife, rent-a-quotes, whose opinions on us are utterly irrelevant. I don’t mind Wrighty to be honest, but again his opinions about us are wholly undeserving of being published on a Spurs blog!
The problem of course is not Conte, it is ENIC and Levy’s performance as the chairman of THFC, specifically in the area of team building and recruitment. The disintegration of a team that was good enough to reach the Champions League final, has required a huge amount of mismanagement and Levy is at the heart of it. The only reason he is still in a job is nepotism, pure and simple.
The fact is that three managers have been sacked over the same time period that the recruitment axis of Levy and Hitchin has destroyed this team and with Levy still at the helm his chronic procrastination, his inability to consummate deals, his obsession with cheap buys and cut- price ‘stop-gap’ bargains, will continue to hobble the best efforts of any top class manager we can attract.
Sadly, the media & many pundits (all the ex Arse-nal ones) have a relentless THFC agenda.
Agreed but some of us optimistic types are in the vast minority, far too unfashionable.
You’re a bad judge.
why is it that Ian Wright , Paul Merson , Jack Wilshere are so focussed on Spurs , it is baffling . Spurs will emerge from this latest fall from grace with a rise , of course it will take financial muscle but this is where stadiums of the highest level come in — tell me who’s gonna build a ground like ours over the next 30-40 years ???????
Stick with Conte , stick with Spurs , it will come good , and when it does we’ll be there for the foreseeable…….COYS !!!!!!!!
I don’t know, Ian Wright makes it up as he goes along.
On the premise that he knew he wasn’t taking over an elite football club, I find it hard to believe that a bloke in the job for essentially 3 months, who also presumably knew there was not £100m in the transfer kitty when he took it, is already regretting it.
He almost certainly has more dealings with his mate Paratici than with Levy and has a top class working environment with a squad, who may not be brimming with talent, but I would say respect and listen and (mostly) work hard for him.
This is just the usual run of negative commentary that happens to Premier League clubs when they lose a few games in a row – so I fully expect it to continue into next week unless a miracle happens on Saturday.
He’s right, right right….
The THFC football business model isn’t fit for purpose for the likes of the Conte’s of this world. Jose, Pep, Zidane or any world class manager would fail because as Conte states… We don’t buy finished products. And it’s for this reason why we won’t ever win anything.
If you but an established player (s) who hits the ground running like the City’s and Chelsea’s of this world then you stand every chance of winning stuff. Not just one off’s either, but regularly.