A bewildering post-Leeds press conference, for me. Without context and critical thought, football managers can sound like small children.
I want some ice cream. You can’t have any. The child is angry. I want some ice cream. Here you go… The child is happy.
If Conte sees this game as him having established his mark upon Tottenham, then we are in for some embarrassing moments for him before his time in our hot seat is through.
Of course, Conte is making his players feel more loved than they were after his post – Burnley outburst, but nevertheless, this is poor from Conte. Had Mourinho so preened himself after such a game, the knives would have been out.
Yep, he just answered a specific question.
Yep!
Also interesting to see him refer to Kulusevski and Bentancur as prospects. Good to see him keep driving home that message to Levy that that’s how he views to fruits of the winter transfer business. It must now be crystal clear to Levy that nothing other that top flight ready players will be acceptable this summer. There are no more vacancies at the school of excellence!
The significance in the style of that first goal was not lost on me at the time, as I suspect it wasn’t on many a fan. It’s no surprise therefore that it was a positive he would latch onto, considering the line of questioning. It was, of course, against a very poor Leeds defence though, so whether or not this is some sort of turning point, is extremely debatable. I don’t think he was overly exuberant about it though; and I doubt any sort of delusion has set in; not yet, anyway.
Love him or loathe him fact remains he’s one of footballs most successful managers ever.
I would take the passion of Conte everyday above all our recent coaches including Pooch because Conte is a winner and has titles and trophies to prove it. If our players felt the same passion he does to win every match and fight for every ball then we would be much higher than seventh place. He does struggle sometimes in translation and perhaps to find the correct words and the media are of course all over any opportunity they can latch onto to try and create a story. Conte is like having a fan on the touch line and in the boardroom. He is the only manager I have seen at this club who doesn’t always say what Levy and ENIC have printed. He is calling the owners to account and he is so popular with the supporters for doing that and that makes it increasingly difficult for our non football club owners to keep spinning their false narrative. If he is not supported in the summer he will be gone and ENIC and Levy will lose any remaining semblance of credibility with the fan base.
The man is a master of psychology. When things aren’t going well he puts the owners under pressure. When things go well, he heaps praise on the players. When he has an outburst, the context is always on the upper running of the club, opposed to individual players. He blames the decline on lack of ambition from the top. This is what is needed at ENIC FC.
And not particularly well either…
To be fair, he was prompted to mention his system after being asked a specific question about “his” wingbacks (not anyone else’s wingbacks). We’d hardly ever played this formation before he arrived so it is different and the wingbacks particularly idiosyncratic of Conte’s tactics. Not guilty me lud,..
This shows how bad it was to miss out on Adama this January window, it would have been instant hit, one more signing missed due to genuinely garbage negotiation skill of Mr. levy for which is he falsely praised for in past.
This
This.
As much as we can’t rely on sessengon and Doherty to do that on a consistent basis, we surely can’t begrudge the gaffer a bit of positivity in what has been a darkish month or so.
The man can’t polish the turd of 20 years of mismanagement and I am naively waiting to see the fruits of the summer transfer window combined with the fruits of our famed academy lol. As I do every year.
Let’s just keep this clearly world class manager in place for as long as we can before we turn into a circus!
He’s Italian. Wer’e a soap opera.
Not relevant to this thread but look at the stats below. We have been blessed with two world class players who have excelled despite the paucity of our squad over the last few years. It’s criminal how ENic have ruined our club. https://twitter.com/SkySportsStatto/status/1497580034873253896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1497580034873253896%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skysports.com%2Ffootball%2Fnews%2F11661%2F12551950%2Fleeds-0-4-tottenham-harry-kane-and-heung-min-son-set-new-premier-legue-record-as-spurs-ease-past-free-falling-leeds
None of which we didn’t know. Levy took a punt as it was all he had after Nuno. Conte may be frustrated but as a fan I like him stating why we are awful. Levy out.
Leeds could easily had FOUR on another day. Two posts, a header in first minute and one open goal. Anyway… doesn’t matter because this league is totally fixed – after that Man City handball. That would have been a penalty in 1860, 1960, 1990, 2010 but for some reason not in 2022 when we have super slow motion.
I dont care what he meant.
The gutter press need to ask some real questions instead of the same old shite. Only then will we not hear. “Yeah but” and “I repeat”
To quote Andy Tate
Don’t care
Just win every game you play and go when your bored enough.
Cheers Antonio.
This is just more evidence to support what I have been banging on about, and what Simon Jordan pointed out the other say – Conte has, quite frankly, an unprofessional grasp on his emotions and/or an unnerving naivety in respect to his post match presser.
This strikes me as a combination of back-pedalling on his recent comments combined with being relatively happy with a win.
Not to say I love him any less, but I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with your ice cream analogy!
I think you may have missed the full context H. Conte was specifically referring to how he likes to use wing backs and for the first time was happy to see that a goal was created and finished by the two wing backs, as per how he likes to deploy them.
It should also be duly noted that the performances of both Sessegnon and Doherty have markedly improved of late under Conte, to the point where both are looking like starting calibre wing backs, something no-one could have claimed a few months ago.
I don’t think Conte has experienced owners so at odds with his ambitions for the club he manages. As usual with Levy, it looks like ending in chaos.
Hope we are seeing the beginning of the end of Abramovich at Chelsea
Thank God he never bought Spurs. They can keep all their trophies, all bought with blood money.
As you say that’s your opinion.
He’s specifically answering Golds question regarding the wing backs. He meant he saw his mark in the first goal, Sessy crossing for Doherty to score.. Later we also near scored a mirror goal with Doherty crossing for Sessy, who just missed the ball and nearly hurt himself.