“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…