“We have to know very well that if we perform well, the fans are happy, If we think the fans have to be happy any time, if you win or lose, I think that’s not right. Me, for sure, when I don’t win, I’m not happy, I am upset, and I think that is okay.”
Antonio Conte
Much has been made of the way players were handled by José Mourinho during his time at Tottenham. It was one of the problems with The Special One. So sizable a mob, were his detractors, so filled with bile and willing, that every time the Portuguese did anything, literally anything at all, it was used to reference something that he’d done before, at a different club.
Invariably the mob got it wrong.
And here we go again. When Mourinho calmly made negative remarks about Tanguy in his press conferences, it was roundly lambasted for being divisive. Here we are, two managers down the line and the boy on £200,000 a week is not only still unfit, still woefully shy from the standard required and to top it all, was incapable of breaking out of his stroll when being subbed when we were a goal down to Morecambe.
Tanguy may well have had his Hossam Ghaly moment. Let’s hope so. After all, something had to shake the situation into a different direction…
Tanguy has had fitness issues with 4 different managers, and only occasionally has a good game usually about 60-65 mins… lo no show on the other hand has 1 good game a season & I think last season managed 90 minutes just once… these guys should be apprehended by the Serious Fraud Office for embezzlement
Taking into account his cost and wages does he qualify as the biggest sh*t to ever have pulled on the famous shirt?
We cannot continue to play with no direction when Kane and Son is not upfront. First thing I said when the linecup was announced. Where are the goals going to come from? We have a malfunctioning squad because we do not have the personnel to play in the respective positions. Tanguy was aweful yes, so was Dele and Locelso, but when you have no striker or a false 9 what were the expectation from the starting 11? The 2 best players were Winks and Rodon. Tanganga keep dribbling and dribbling instead of passing the ball, let it travel 20 yards. You cannot outrun the pass. Release the ball to the mids and get reorganized, but for some reason all our defenders including the ones who did not play think it is their jobs to carry the ball at every chance. This is a stat I would love it see. How many times our defenders make passes to get the offense moving as oppose to them dilly dollying on the ball. We need balance right now and it should take moving 2 or 3 players to get a center forward in, a center back and a creative mid in.
The very fact he can’t play 90 mins is enough to say it’s a no from me.
Regardless of previous managers and what they done, it certainly has not helped Ndb in the slightest and he has struggled throughout his time at Spurs and has not strung 2 good performances together
Conte knows enough is enough, he is finished or should i say never started
Not without being handsomely rewarded for their failures.
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I disagree. Conte could have opted to offer some protection, and he absolutely refused to concede any.
He didn’t need to pile on (language, I didn’t use) as that is the job of the mob.
I can only summise that Hitchen has some heavy sh*t on Levy to have lasted so long.In any other industry the pair of them would have been long gone.
I think you’re right about LoCelso,I noticed the same change in attitude when the heavy hitters were introduced late on in the Ropey and Conference games.
You can’t really blame him.However I think he has to look to his laurels because he is on borrowed time.
I’m not sure that Conte ‘hung him out to dry’ H, I thought it was a fair comment to be honest. He just defended the fans right to vent their feelings if the team is not playing well. Well they weren’t and Ndombele was part of the problem. He didn’t personally pile on the player or single him out for criticism, as Mourinho might have done.
On which subject, given the appalling lack of judgment shown in the acquisition of Ndombele, plus Lo Celso, Sessegnon, Clarke, Doherty, etc, it’s astonishing that the principle architect of all that malinvestment still has a job. Hitchin (with Levy), an axis of executive incompetence, who have presided over the utter disintegration of a fine team.
All those payoffs must soften the blow
I thought Gio looked as poor as most in the first half, and took some woeful set pieces. Once Lucas and Kane came on and he had a few players capable of one and two touch passing to play the ball to, he looked brighter. I think that’s why we see the best of him in an Argentina shirt, he has capable players around him all the time rather than the likes of (in yesterday’s case) Alli, Doherty, Sessegnon, Tanguy and Bryan.
Tanguy has some impressive skills , but its not enough. Thought Conte was fairly diplomatic in his commentary. I for one have had enough of him, Gio has a question mark but at least he seems to be trying and hopefully get better after his time out
I continually question why the standard of players deemed by those responsible to be at a level suitable to represent this club, that when put on the pitch together as a team, simply cannot function.
Is it the systems, the coaching on the training ground, players who do not fit the systems used or players who don’t appear good enough in ability and attitude.
Something is badly wrong within this club and it’s been allowed to spread like a disease since towards the end of the Poch era, and now it’s rotten, and it’s much more than just replacing the managers.
It’s just a disgrace.
We’ve had many a wage thief on the books over the years, but Ndombele trumps them all. Selling him on will be next to impossible with the money he’s on. It would be far less hassle to just pay him off.
The look on the faces of so many players yesterday says they’ve had enough of him too.
Hah, I fully agree. Well put all round. Yes they most defini
tely are…..
How did the mob get it wrong? His record at Tottenham was bang average at best, even Ryan Mason has a better win rate. He blamed the players for every poor result as he has at all his previous clubs rather shouldering his share of the blame. He improved none of the players during his reign Kane and Son were as or more prolific in the Poch era.
He may have been special once, a decade ago, but glancing at the serie a table where he had the biggest transfer budget in the league suggests that special is no longer an appropriate phrase
Every manager we’ve had since Tangy arrived, including Pochettino benched him, wouldn’t trust him. Although that was earlier in the whole Tangy saga, so excuses about ‘settling in etc were rolled out.
As the Amazon comedy show illustrated, Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Levy & Hitchen) flatly refused to acknowledge that they’d massively f*cked up with Tangy.
Levy laughably ‘educating’ the boy with some inane dialogue about sticking at it abd that it would come good in the end. Yes, the man who knows nothing about football, hoping against hope.
I find it staggering that Hitchen remains at the club (who must have been influential in the Tangy deal) yet Levy gets through four managers in a vain attempt to get a tune out of Dumb-bellend and out of the dysfunction and chaos the pair of them have overseen.
Are the bald supremos sleeping together or what? 🤔