Levy wanted to run before he could walk by appointing Conte. We needed a rebuild after sacking Poch. We were no where near completing that rebuild when he appointed Conte.
For Conte to be successful you needed to have the right players already at the club, or be able to buy them quickly. He doesn't improve players. His skill is to take a team with top quality players and imbue a system that makes them win trophies. They become almost machine like.
Spurs, not having the top quality players, need a manager who could make the team better than the sum of its parts. A Poch type manager, a fact lost on many fans on here who thought, like Levy, Jose and Conte could come in and turn water to wine.
I disagree that we don't have any of those types of players here. Kane is outstanding, you don't break the kind of records that he does without having the sort of Mentality Conte demands. And Lloris has been a world champion. We also know that players who have left Spurs have won trophies when playing with better players.
We just don't have enough of those players though. Some decent players have been bought by Paratici added to some already decent, almost world class players like Son.
So this relationship between Conte and Spurs was destined to end this way. Several posters predicted it. Back to the drawing board I guess. The right manager can come in and have a decent squad at his disposal. Not world beaters, Kane aside, but good enough to mould into winners as long as he is supported with the additional players that he needs.
