Former Tottenham manager, Tim Sherwood reckons that Antonio Conte is most likely not prepared to see Daniel Levy at the Tottenham training ground every day and hints the Italian will be shocked to realise that is how the Spurs supremo operates.
Spurs also have a very passionate football director in Fabio Paratici and they are all under pressure from fans now and the team needs to start delivering fine performances.
Conte is the latest manager tasked with helping the Lilywhites become a top club again.
Sherwood knows what it means to work at Spurs and the pressure of the job and reveals one key thing Conte would soon find is normal at the club.
“This man (Conte) is very demanding,” said Sherwood to Premier League Daily.
“He’ll see Daniel Levy there every day.
“I’m not sure he has ever had that sort of dynamic before when he goes into training every day and he sees the president of the football club there.
“He will be asking Daniel ‘what he has been doing today?’ I am sure. And Paratici will be getting it in the earhole as well.”
The Boy Hotspur Says
Levy is an astute businessman and is keen to see the club succeed. Going to the training ground daily isn’t exactly a bad thing.
However, if he tries to influence the manager or interfere in his work, then it would become a step too far.
But Levy knows Conte is one of the best managers in the world and he has brought the Italian to the club because of his managerial record.
Levy will almost certainly not interfere in what the Italian does on the training ground. If he does, it cannot end well.
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Nail on the head, right there.
“We never are better off over time, things improve and then ?? hits the reset button,”
People may wish to look around and examine the micro mirroring the macro. 1620.1720,1820,1920.
The emotional element/back (sob) story, #mevictim of (insert ism) etc is already present in elite sport, all part of the drama and entertainment. A “domestic” situation between Conte and Levy would be a good watch and click bait heaven for the media
Quite right, making it toxic for the sponsors etc is the way
“However, if he tries to influence the manager or interfere in his work, then it would become a step too far.”
hahaha that is what (s)he does. I’d love to see it play our differently but I’ll skip to the “it cannot end well” denouement.
We never are better off over time, things improve and then Levy hits the reset button, sells players, sacks managers. I believe this is deliberate and done to both control the expectations of the fans and cash in on players in a constant cycle. There‘s probably a spread sheet and a flow chart from 2000 in Levy’s office drawer, that he still refers to, to this day… 🤔
Sadly, that could well happen. I feel he might stick it out until the summer and that may well be it….
Sadly, we can all predict how this will play out…
My take on it is that there wasn’t a big job available to Conte, or a smaller club that would pay him the salary he’d expect. Rather than sit around waiting, Paratici probably talked him round to come and try and get the club in the top 4.
There’ll be money to bring players in, I’m sure but nothing like Conte had been used to at Inter and Chavski. I see this as a short term appointment, otherwise why does a manager of his caliber only sign an 18 month deal?
He’s with us until something bigger and more ambitious comes along, the state of finances at the big clubs in Italy & Spain has led him to us.
I think Conte will be gone by February… he’ll walk once Levy has interfered which Levy has done with every manager who has worked under him
He’s been promised money for sure otherwise he wouldn’t have signed.. Maureen would have been promised money to spend too, but then covid struck, the debt started to grow. This must have halted proceedings. Maureen did mention broken promises after he left.
Will be another missed opportunity.
How can any sane Spurs fan be anything but cynical and pessimistic about Levy after his 22 year track record?
its impossible, unless you’re a bit slow up top…
Also the League Cup being the most minor trophy any English club can win, and also being 13 years ago, makes it largely irrelevant…
Quite!
The shiny stadium mantra soon evaporates with that chant. I honestly think Levy thought he’d be sainted by the fans for the stadium. He’s such a f*cking klutz, masquerading as some kind of ‘mastermind’, in his head…
Very good point.
No more sharing croissants with the training staff and players at Hotspur Way, like in the reality TV show then?! 😂
I doubt Conte will be dictated to or dictate to Levy, if it doesn’t work I feel he will just leave gracefully and let everyone work it out for themselves…
Levy has been forced to pay Conte well to try and get the team back in the top 4 (like he did Jose). Beyond that I doubt there’s been much discussion, on either side…
Perhaps if he left the football to the experts he’d see the debt dwindle a lot faster.
An observation over the years that concerns me is that none of the managers he has fired, even Mourinho, have really come out to state clearly what the real issue is at Spurs. Likely the enormous pay packets are linked to some kind of non-disparagement clause. Maybe another reason why the sheeple still go along with the pro-Levy rhetoric. Hope that Conte changes all that but will involve a complete 180 change in Levy dealings.
Harsh SPS it is early days after all (only around 22 years?)
I think this is the one that will work out fine.
Imagine when we edge out the eel munchers for 4th place or 3rd).
We all remember Jose’s jig at Palarse when we edged into 6th well watch Antonio go…..
He’s got a billion pound debt to drive down for starters.. Are we in the top ten in the world yet for revenue? Must be work sorting out the economics.. You’re right of course he has to stay out of football matters.
Watch Contes angry moments on you tube.. Lol.. He would eat Levy for breakfast.. I would expect Paratici to be dealing with and working with Conte alot closer than Levy… The Bald one at the ground is hardly a problem, he’s not going to be interfering with training, or coaches talks is he… “what have you been doing today?” is the best (or worst) case scenario is it Tim? Tim was also ripping Conte for banning ketchup and mayonnaise.. It’s not the 90s anymore Timbo, but even back then the majority of people knew diet and nutrition is important.. Tim seems salty still.. Very good player. Sub par manager. Poor pundit.
Levy should butt out of footballing matters entirely. Why the hell does he need to go to the training ground everyday, is he becoming our next wing back? How would he like it if Conte sat across from his desk every day and listened to his phone calls? There is only one thing more annoying than a control freak, and that is a tightfisted one.
Conte has a short fuse for sure and Levy can be the most annoying chairman on the planet, not a match made in heaven.
I think what has really got into his thick skull is the “Levy out” chants at the Man U match, even he can’t spin those into something else.
Even someone with a hide as thick as Levy’s, must surely know that his already severely compromised credibility as chairman is on the line here. The utter debacle of the managerial search, culminating in Nuno’s futile four month tenure; the termination of 3 managers in two years, all with accompanying staffs and contract payoffs required; have made the club a ‘laughing stock’ and cost ENIC and thereby THFC, umpteen millions.
Notwithstanding if that figure has been subsequently mitigated by the managerial casualties finding new employ, it still bears testament to Levy’s incompetence in the matter of running a football club, in other words what he is actually paid to do! Appointing Conte is almost the final throw of the dice. Fail to back the volatile Italian, who wins everywhere he goes and the finger of blame will point in only one direction, Levy’s.
This is the true reality of the ‘dynamic’ between the two of them, Conte is a serial winner with a CV of success even more current than Mourinho’s. So let’s be under no illusion, the diminutive fraudster is ‘drinking in last chance saloon’, maybe sufficient incentive to liberate even his notorious parsimony in the direction of backing this manager. In truth, Levy’s made a rod for his own back, the self-flagellation should make for compelling viewing!
Levy also bought in Mourinho because he was one of the very best aroung and has the trophies to prove it,but that didn’t work out too well.
I hope I’m wrong,but I can’t help but see the same scenario with Conte.He will not tolerate levy’s interference
This.
Nothing that Levy has done during his 20 plus year tenure at the club has worked. What i mean by worked is, consistent finishing positions in the league (we are up and down like a bride’s nightie) and the winning of trophies.
“Hang on”, I hear you cry “Didn’t we win the league cup in 2008, you dope?”
Yes, we did. By accident.
If DL continues to micromanage the hell out of this then Sherwood is correct. In 12 months time we will be no better off than we are now.