Antonio has a plan to escape the sinking ship.
The coach provokes Levi
In October, Levy planned to extend his contract with Conte. In March, Antonio will be happy to get rid of him. Compensation previously stopped in case of termination of the contract. The contract is until the end of June, but with the possibility of extending for one year. But the coach will leave the team. Conte wanted to escape during the international break, so he put on a show after the draw against Southampton. Fifteen minutes before the end of regular time, Spurs led 3-1, but narrowly missed out on victory.
Conte wasn’t so angry as he launched a planned attack on Daniel Levy and his team:
Tottenham don’t play for trophies. Twenty years in the sole owner club, but never won anything. I only see 11 selfish players. This is not a team.
Don’t let Conte’s emotionality fool you. Antonio, like any astute Italian who has achieved success in the profession, will not miss his chance. There were no emotions. The speech was considered, he was just looking for an excuse to talk. For example, Conte’s Chelsea earned £30m for themselves and their coaching staff. The era of gullible managers, who were often made fun of, unfairly and prematurely dismissed without consequences, is a thing of the past.
Mentors have agents, like Mourinho. Or wives with a law degree, like Benitez. Don’t you like being a mentor who makes £15m a year like Conte? Please pay compensation and then fire. Mourinho, bored at Tottenham, left in April two years ago, four days before the League Cup final against Manchester City. The Portuguese didn’t want to lose and, like Conte, argued with the players.
Jose realized that Levi was not looking for a chance to win a trophy, in this his assessment coincided with that of Conte. Mourinho threw poor Mason, who worked with the youth team, at Guardiola’s feet. Kane then failed to win the prized trophy for him. Spurs remain a team that will lose in the final at best, even if they rarely get that far.
Antonio has cleared himself of guilt
Bad leadership. Strong-willed and selfish footballers. Heavy calendar. Wrong referees. Opponents are in good shape, spend more money. Conte will find many excuses for himself. Antonio left Juventus, throwing a phrase after him that you can’t sit in an expensive restaurant for 100 euros. Having said goodbye to the coach, Turintsy was twice in the Champions League final.
Years later, Marotta made fun of Conte, recalling the phrase about one hundred euros. And then together they threw Juventus off the Scudetto path, holding a grudge against Agnelli. Conte was good when he was directed by Marotta. The name of Tottenham’s sporting director is no stranger to the coach – Paratici, but the fugitive boss of the black and whites is not equal in class to Beppe Marotta. And Conte falls short of the greatest Italian coaches of all time.
Always puts “me” first. Maniacs sometimes win tactically, but it’s hard for them to strategize. With stories about selfish 11, Conte absolves blame, as he did when he complained about Tottenham’s transfer budget. At the same time, it was only he and Paratici who paid the money. It was the Italians who signed Richarlison and Bissum for big money. There have been good deals, but Carragher is right: Conte wants to leave.
Don’t get emotional after Antonio’s performance. There were no criticisms there. What a North London club is, is clear even from a great distance. Sure, Spurs are the standard underdogs of the soccer world. But a coach is hired not to list problems, but to solve them. Conte doesn’t think about Spurs, but about himself. He recently had surgery. They found cholecystitis, removed the gallbladder.
The Italian mentally collapsed
The gallbladder was removed, but the bile remained. Conte, who did not listen to the doctor and instead of peace got involved in new football fights, drove away the pain and grievances on the players. The manager thought things were different at Tottenham. It turns out the critics are right, Levy is a master of debt collection, but he doesn’t understand football. We can understand Antonio’s bad morale. Ventrone, the Spurs athletic trainer whom Conte had known for some time and who had recently been invited to his headquarters in England, died in October.
Mikhailovich and Vialli, Antonio’s good friends from his generation, died. Conte felt his own mortality. Therefore, he threw phrases in the style of “work is not all there is in life.” Conte clearly does not want to waste precious Tottenham time with his constant defeats. Levy is actively looking for a new mentor for Spurs. Or the old one, if Pochettino is convinced, but in this story there are no righteous people, but there are guilty ones. Tottenham players are weak-willed, they lost to troubled Milan Champions League.
They can give a ticket to the main European Cup, if not Liverpool, then Newcastle. The club’s management does not understand the game, but there are many such owners in football. A good manager builds a united team. Conte has failed in this task. The Italian went down to Tottenham. Since he considers himself superior, he shouldn’t have accepted £15m a year in London. The pendulum has swung from one end to the other, now coaches compete to find lame excuses instead of making the kick.
Conte has been at Tottenham for almost a year and a half. Since last summer I saw that there were only selfish players on the pitch, it was worth reacting. Kane’s sale was enough to sign three decent players to the starting lineup. But the coach, while things were going well, thought about extending the contract. And now suddenly he wanted to leave, but with compensation. This requires a dismissal, not a voluntary departure, and therefore Conte made a big scandal.
