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Conte will not be the new Tottenham coach! The club has stopped negotiating with him
Antonio Conte will apparently not become Tottenham’s head coach after all. The London club stopped negotiating with the biggest favourite for the post in recent days after disagreements.
Antonio Conte will apparently not become Tottenham’s head coach after all. The London club has stopped negotiations with the biggest favourite for the post in recent days after disagreements.
Antonio Conte and Tottenham. A connection that in the previous days seemed more than likely. But it finally came off on Friday night and the 51-year-old now former coach of the reigning Serie A winners, Inter Milan, will probably be out of a job for some time.
According to the English media, both sides were moving towards the cancellation. While there were concerns at the London club about Conte’s temper and not using young prosperous offspring, the Italian manager was beginning to suspect that things would not go smoothly at Spurs.
He wanted to get huge funds to rebuild the squad, but when he learned that Daniel Levy was not willing to release such a horrendous sum as he imagined, he concluded that Tottenham was not a team ready to win trophies immediately.
That was not a flattering prospect for a man who had won an incredible five league titles in the last decade (three with Juventus, one with Chelsea and one with Inter). So Conte will probably prefer to take a break from football for a while.
Tottenham are therefore still waiting for the right man, and have been since April, when he gave notice to José Mourinho, incidentally the future coach of AS Roma. Since then, the team has been led temporarily, for the rest of the season, by Ryan Mason, who has led the team to at least seventh place, guaranteeing participation in the Europa League.
However, the latter certainly does not represent an attraction for big coaching names and so Julian Nagelsmann preferred Bayern Munich, Brendan Rodgers preferred to stay at Leicester and apparently the interesting option with Mauricio Pochettino, who is only facing his first summer at PSG, will not work out either.
So who will lead Tottenham next season? That’s probably somewhere deep in the stars.
Source: BBC, Sky Sports
