Despite returning to England just over a year ago off the back of a Serie A title win with Inter Milan, Antonio Conte’s time back in the Premier League has so far not quite gone to plan.
The no-nonsense Italian succeeded Nuno Espirito Santo in the Tottenham hot seat back in November 2021 and although he was expected to restore the Lilywhites’ exciting style of play, it has yet to happen, with the club arguably worse off now than they were then.
Sitting outside of the league’s top four, Spurs, who have played a game more than fourth-placed Newcastle, saw their Champions League qualification hopes suffer another blow after they were thumped 4-1 by Leicester City last weekend.
Consequently, speculation surrounding Conte has once again begun to mount. The latest name to weigh in on the Italian’s future has been former Liverpool attacker Stan Collymore, who while speaking in an exclusive interview, said: “Sometimes there are managers that just don’t fit clubs and I think Antonio Conte at Spurs is one of those examples. We also saw it with Rafa Benitez at Everton and Jose Mourinho at Manchester United.
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“Stylistically, Spurs fans rightfully have a certain expectation of how the team should play and Conte is failing to deliver that so it’s strange to me why he, or the players, have yet to really come under fire. All the heat appears to be directed at Daniel Levy.
“Interestingly, I’ve seen some whispers about three of the top jobs in Serie A potentially being available in the summer and Conte being in line to take up one of them, so in terms of what the incentive is for him to do well at Spurs, and only Spurs, I don’t think it exists.
“Conte is probably looking at the complete picture and thinking ‘some of my best players could leave soon, I haven’t been properly backed in the market and the fans are protesting against the owners – do I really need this?’
Should Conte depart Spurs at the end of the season, Mauricio Pochettino will probably be a leading contender to replace him. The Argentine, who managed the Lilywhites for five years, may feel he has some unfinished business at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after he was relieved of his duties at the end of 2019.
Stan is right Conte doesn’t fit Spurs. He only “coaches” established players, doesn’t bring on academy players, Sticks to one style, He needs to go. A manager that knows how to get the best from younger players is what Spurs need.
We are not a selling club anymore so what is all this crap about young players we will never win anything this way as look at last 20 years conte is a winner mou a winner look what we done to these two the issue at our club is the owners levy n Lewis don’t give two sh!ts as long as bums are in the seats n fans ate paying hundreds each week only way these tools back the Manager is by us fans boycotting everything that is spurs cause as off now none of our mangers have gotten first choice picks for the positions we need 3 choice winger 4 th choice cb 3-4 choice cms 3 choice cf 3 choice lb 2 choice rwb this is just conte n one player conte didn’t want at all we are a bang average team with a top class manger with bang average owners until the owners own up to this or chance or sell this is what will happen season on season like it always has levy sack our best manger after not backing him for 3-4 windows our recruitment is shocking too just better than evertons and guess who put them in that role levy we had Mitchell buy cause levy though him under the bridge he left us so we get one if levy’s pals involved n he did a great job didn’t n guess what levy though him under bridge too levy n enic are the poison at our club until they give the mangers what they want or they sell up look forward to manger changes every couple years sometimes months like nuno a decent manger made to look very bad cause levy done exact thing to him as well levy promises are like 1 ply bog roll plus fans like u are an issue too going to games buying crap from the shop