Last week it appeared that former Inter Milan manager Antonio Conte was on the verge of becoming Tottenham Hotspur’s next manager. However, fast forward a few days and it looks like chairman Daniel Levy’s attempts to bringing in the world-class tactician have failed with talks breaking down.
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Conte left Inter Milan following their most recent and incredible Serie A title win – now back and available, luring the highly-rated Italian to London would have been a huge achievement.
However, it wasn’t to be and now the finer details of how Levy and Conte’s negotiations broke down, and why.
According to a recent article from The Athletic, there were several members of Spurs’ squad who had learned from other players that Conte is an extremely demanding coach.
It has been claimed that Spurs’ squad had reservations over Conte’s training methods and how he favoured first-team players over youth academy products.
The squad’s concerns appear to have eventually led to Levy pulling the plug, leaving the chairman with no choice but to sound out yet another possible mangerial replacement.
What a load of nonsense, the players never have a say in who will be manager.
They had a say to get mourinho fired.
Utter rubbish. The reason conte didn’t come was because Levy told him he needed to make the existing players into work beaters. Levy will have told him that we have Ndombele, lo celso, sissoko, lamela and bergwijn who between them cost about £170m and so they must be good. Unfortunately conte will have told him that they are not good enough for him, and he would need to spend money to make the team into title challengers. End of negotiation for Mr Levy!