This club really is a joke. Spurs have officially ended the Antonio Conte era as they have sacked the Italian manager, leaving the club without a permeant manager for the final stretch of the season.
If you want to know why Tottenham never win, this is the painfully obvious reason.
After one of the fieriest outbursts in Premier League history, Spurs and club chairmen Daniel Levy have officially parted ways with manager Antonio Conte, though the separation was pretty apparent a few days ago when Conte left the team for his home in Italy.
Now, I don’t want to get into that Southampton game which caused such an explosive breakup, but its resulting outcome is indicative of the mentality at Spurs. These Spurs players and executives all want to win and compete for the highest trophies, yet they are absolutely reluctant to suffer through adversity, hardships, and criticism to do so.
Thus, to the utter despair of the Tottenham faithful, the club continues to settle for less and the trophy drought (which is now at 15 years) remains. This club is a perfect example of a talented, spoiled child that has all the potential and capabilities in the world to succeed but refuses to do so out of a fear of engaging in commitment/hardship.
Sure, Antonio Conte was brash, argumentative, and had a quite boring style of football, but it was a winning brand that brought success to each and every one of the clubs and nations he’s managed.
He’s gotten small clubs (Bari, Sienna) promoted to Serie A, he won 3 Serie A titles and 2 Italian Supercoppa cups during his spell as Juventus manager (2011-14), he brought Italy to a Quarterfinal in Euro 2016, he won the Premier League and FA Cup during his time at Chelsea (2016-18), and then he went back to Italy and won Serie A with Inter Milan (2019-21).
Do you know what was the only major club he couldn’t win at? Oh, right, it was Tottenham Hotspur…just like Jose Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino before him.
Both Jose Mourinho, who is one of the greatest managers ever with 10 league title wins, 13 domestic cups wins, 1 Europa Conference League win, 2 Europa League wins, and 2 Champions League wins, and Mauricio Pochettino, who has 1 Ligue 1 title win and 2 domestic French cup wins, have failed to win at Spurs but have won before and/or after joining/leaving the club.
When you have three managers, all of whom have won league titles in other clubs and countries, fail to win Tottenham anything with the same core of players and upper management, one has to look at the players and management for the real problem.
I hate to sound cruel and ruthless, but 90% of those Tottenham players have to be sold or removed from the club as soon as possible as they’ve failed three top-level coaches. Moreover, Daniel Levy and his board of cronies and settlers must either resign or give power to someone else as they’ve been just as complicit with the failure of the first quarter of the 21st century.
I hope interim manager Cristian Stellini can do well enough with this squad of failures to get a head coaching job somewhere else (as a doubt Spurs will name him the permanent manager), but I really feel bad for the Spurs fans.
They are the ones who’ve suffered from the failures of the current generation of Tottenham players and hierarchy the most.
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