Antonio Conte

Tottenham have parted company with Antonio Conte after the Italian slammed his players as "selfish" after their 3-3 draw with Southampton. Spurs have announced ...

The idea of playing three at the back is to make you more solid. "There are only seven teams in the league who have conceded more goals and they play a back three, with two holding midfielders. You've got to say the blame lies with the manager because of the way he sets up. In 2021 it was Ryan Mason, this time the former Spurs midfielder will act as assistant to Conte's former assistant Cristian Stellini. Bridge added: "Stellini is very popular with the players and has won games in interim charge before, but this is different now. I feel the pressure and the moment to be responsible. I, and other colleagues of mine, would ask him week after week about signing a new deal and he wouldn't really want to talk about it; he'd say this was something they'd discuss at the end of the season. They were seconds away from going third, then they gave a penalty away in the last minute and that unbelievable post-match press conference followed. Conte, whose contract was set to expire at the end of the season, told Sky Sports after the 3-3 draw: "I'm not used to seeing this type of situation. "Twenty years there is the owner and they never won something - but why? Daniel Levy said in a statement: "We have 10 Premier League games remaining and we have a fight on our hands for a Champions League place. However, there are not many clubs that are prepared to pay the type of salary he wants.

Antonio Conte thanked Tottenham and wished the club the best for the future in a statement posted to Instagram on Monday after Spurs fired him.

He is [well-known for butting heads with management at the organisations he works for](https://www.goal.com/en/lists/spurs-specialists-failure-antonio-conte-reputation-messi-managers-tarnished/blt0a26e6078eb4201a), but those comments were seen internally as a step too far. WHAT NEXT FOR TOTTENHAM? A special thought to the Fans who always showed me support and appreciation, it’s been unforgettable to hear them singing my name.

Tottenham have parted company with manager Antonio Conte, the Premier League club has confirmed.The Italian took the reins at Spurs in November 2021 a.

You risk to disrupt the figure of the manager and to protect the other situation in every moment. I have seen the managers that Tottenham had on the bench. “We achieved Champions League qualification in Antonio’s first season at the club. The fault is only for the club, or for every manager that stays here. They don’t want to play under stress. They don’t want to play under pressure.

The Italian left his role by mutual consent late on Sunday following a bizarre rant attacking the players and higher-ups at the club. His former assistant ...

I said that I want to see the fire in their eyes, in their hearts. I want to see the right spirit. 'I said I wanted to see the fire and I have not seen it. [The Italian left his role by mutual consent](/sport/football/article-11884729/Tottenham-Hotspur-SACK-Antonio-Conte-manager.html) late on Sunday following a bizarre rant attacking the players and higher-ups at the North London club. They don't want to play under stress. They don't want to play under pressure.

Antonio Conte has thanked Tottenham fans and those who shared his “passion” after his exit. The Italian left Spurs by mutual consent on Sunday after 16 ...

“A special thought to the fans who always showed me support and appreciation, it’s been unforgettable to hear them singing my name. THST has repeatedly called for this and fans deserve it. He wrote on Instagram: “Football is a passion. “The club’s board must now have a clear strategy for what and who comes next and it needs to tell this club’s supporters what that plan is. The Italian left Spurs by mutual consent on Sunday after 16 months in charge. Emerson will have surgery on Tuesday and faces a race against time to feature again for Spurs this season, with the Premier League due to finish on May 28.

Antonio Conte plans to recharge his batteries at home in Italy after Spurs split and his next job will be in Serie A... the firebrand coach would be the perfect ...

Inter, Milan, Juventus and above all Roma are thinking of him. We must quickly forget the figure of Conte as Superman capable of fixing all things. the firebrand coach would be the perfect successor for Jose Mourinho at Roma or he could resume his Juventus love affair Conte has returned to live in his historic Turin home and will surround himself with family and probably until June will be the main spectator of the Italian championship. Every man learns something from every experience and this adventure at the helm of Spurs has made it clear how Conte must be less demanding of himself and of the team in order to live his job as a coach serenely. The termination of his contract is a defeat for everyone - for the club and then coach, unable to manage a team built through his indications but denied in the last press conference through a direct attack on individual players.

Tottenham news: Antonio Conte made no secret of his true feelings whilst in the Premier League across two jobs.

The best person to be Antonio Conte is Antonio Conte, the best person to be Graham Potter is Graham Potter. "I started off in the ninth tier of English football so it's not so easy to get to this point. "I think that is my job and my responsibility when I talk on behalf of the club to express how we feel. Here, both managers have opposing views of the man but appear to have called it correctly in their estimations of him too. But it isn't nice when people then start to criticise you for being you because I can't help being me and it has served me quite well. "What I have tried to do I think in three years here is not make any complaints," he said after the 3-0 loss at the end of the 2021/22 campaign. "Whatever we do we will try to defend the club in the right way, like we have always tried to do. As for Chelsea, Graham Potter has no such ill-feeling towards Conte and has pointed out the characteristic that made the serial league winner such a guarantee throughout his career. I just said I could not give a clear assessment on what I thought about the game. We thank Antonio for his contribution and wish him well for the future," was all that was said. "I have no complaint and I didn’t complain on Thursday. Arsenal and Chelsea have been left with the last laugh after Antonio Conte was dismissed by Tottenham on Sunday night.

Sky Sports Jamie Redknapp discusses the situation at Spurs in the wake of Antonio Contes exit; the Italian departed on Sunday night after publicly ...

The culture at the club doesn’t seem to be right in terms of being a winning mentality. I wouldn’t really call them signings that are going to change the culture of the club or go and win that trophy that you need. His negotiators will be talking to clubs and clubs will know the situation. All the managers must think: ‘This is a great laugh coming to Tottenham’. Every year you’re getting a new manager in and he’s probably thinking: ‘What’s the point of this?’ You need some continuity - that’s conducive to success. You’re not really in a strong position to negotiate if you’re Tottenham. If they want to really achieve it will probably be with the next owners. It’s very much controlled by Daniel Levy - he wants to make all the decisions and I think that’s always been a major problem with Tottenham. It was a completely different culture to what I’d been at with Liverpool. He can’t be speaking about the players because those players haven’t really been there that long - you can’t really blame them. If Tottenham are ever really going to achieve then that has to change. I think this is really good news for the clubs around them.

He wrote on Instagram: “Football is a passion. I would like to deeply thank everyone at Spurs who appreciated and shared my passion and my intense way of living ...

“A special thought to the fans who always showed me support and appreciation, it’s been unforgettable to hear them singing my name. He wrote on Instagram: “Football is a passion. [labelled his players “selfish”](https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/football/2023/03/18/antonio-conte-blasts-selfish-tottenham-stars-after-collapse-at-southampton/) after they lost a 3-1 lead to draw 3-3 at Southampton earlier this month.

Antonio Conte thanked Tottenham and wished the club the best for the future in a statement posted to Instagram on Monday after Spurs fired him.

He is [well-known for butting heads with management at the organisations he works for](https://www.goal.com/en/lists/spurs-specialists-failure-antonio-conte-reputation-messi-managers-tarnished/blt0a26e6078eb4201a), but those comments were seen internally as a step too far. WHAT NEXT FOR TOTTENHAM? A special thought to the Fans who always showed me support and appreciation, it’s been unforgettable to hear them singing my name.

Tottenham Chairman Daniel Levy is facing yet another major managerial decision at Spurs after the departure of head coach Antonio Conte was announced on ...

[Bild](https://www.bild.de/), that any club wanting to appoint Nagelsmann before the end of the season would have to pay a hefty fee to Bayern. [his comments in that statement following the departure of Conte compared to one of his predecessors, Jose Mourinho, speaks significant volumes over how his relationship with the Italian had broken down. Stellini is very much considered to be Conte's right-hand man having followed him throughout much of his managerial career. The final interesting thing to note from Tottenham's statement, released at 10:20pm on Sunday, was the confirmation regarding who would take interim charge. At the start of the international break it was widely reported that Tottenham and Conte were set to part ways, and with the just over 90 minutes of that week remaining, the news was confirmed. "Cristian Stellini will take the team as Acting Head Coach for the remainder of the season, along with Ryan Mason as Assistant Head Coach." Although the statement was just a few paragraphs long, there is so much to unpack. [Antonio Conte leaves as Tottenham head coach by mutual consent](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/breaking-antonio-conte-tottenham-sacked-26521524) [Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy delivers update after Antonio Conte departure](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/breaking-tottenham-antonio-conte-levy-26565037) [Tottenham announce Antonio Conte replacement as Spurs dugout confirmed ahead of Everton clash](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/tottenham-conte-replacement-dugout-everton-26565362) [The four problems the next Tottenham manager needs to solve ahead of the Premier League run-in](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/next-tottenham-manager-premier-league-26558271) [Mauricio Pochettino drops Tottenham return hint amid Antonio Conte sack talk](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/mauricio-pochettino-tottenham-conte-sack-26559063) On a personal level I have enjoyed working with him and regret that things have not worked out as we both envisaged. The full club statement read: "We can announce that Head Coach Antonio Conte has left the Club by mutual agreement. We achieved Champions League qualification in Antonio’s first season at the Club. We all need to pull together.

SAMI MOKBEL: The Italian's intense training regime had players on their knees. Conte often had them run 2km before matches. Players wouldn't dare moan in ...

That never sat well with those in positions of power at the club. But by the time of his departure, there was little will from the club's powerbrokers, apart from director of football Fabio Paratici, to continue with Conte. He is in it for the long haul; many at Tottenham knew Conte wasn't. It is understood Levy will insist on staying at Tottenham in the event of any future sale. Given the team didn't arrive back in London until the early hours of the morning, it was not well received. Maybe Conte could have exuded more positivity rather than the pangs of negativity that wore his squad and members of staff down. Indeed, not everyone will be glad to see the back of Conte. This is the same group of players that turned on Jose Mourinho and Nuno Espirito Santo. His habit of changing the training schedule at short notice a particular bugbear. There are a number of players returning in the next 24 hours relieved that they've been spared an awkward reunion. Among the squad, there was a sense that performances and results had been hampered by Conte's rigid and defensive tactics. But sometimes it's not the manager's fault.

Conte succeeded Nuno Espirito Santo in November 2021 and led Spurs into the Champions League at the expense of Arsenal but struggled for consistency in his ...

Posting on his Instagram, Conte wrote: “Football is passion. [believed to be a frontrunner](https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/next-tottenham-manager-nagelsmann-pochettino-b1068984.html) for the job after his sacking at Bayern Munich, while former Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino and the similarly out-of-work Luis Enrique could be considered. [ntonio Conte](/topic/antonio-conte) has thanked [Tottenham](/topic/tottenham) supporters for his time at the club.

The former Bayern Munich manager is expected to have his pick of options soon.

As much as a manager might want to re-shape a club, he might only run into the brick wall that is their institutional pattern. Or they could watch Arsenal, [Manchester United](https://thebusbybabe.sbnation.com), and [Newcastle](https://cominghomenewcastle.sbnation.com) continue to rise while floundering through a conveyer belt of ho-hum, oft-abandoned projects. But as much as Bayern might try to get a coach to fit into what they do, they’d do well to remember: that sometimes, patterns repeat. And do they have the same assembly of sizzling play-making 8s to dance in Nagelsmann’s favored half-spaces? On the other hand: Harry Kane, Son Heung-min, Dejan Kulusevski, and Richarlison make for a tantalizing set of attackers. Maybe pressure is different in the Premier League, but he should be expected to modernize the sporting product and deliver a fresh injection of innovative ideas. [Real Madrid](https://www.managingmadrid.com) team in transition. Or does the present midfield composition of Oliver Skipp and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg lend itself more to a double pivot than a 3+1 structure in possession? Conte has departed mid-season (by mutual consent) with Spurs hanging on precariously to fourth place in the EPL table. Nagelsmann is expected to have lots of options, and Tottenham is an intriguing one. Could the German manager be headed across the channel to give it the old English try? Tottenham have been through the ringer since they sacked Mauricio Pochettino.

When you hire Antonio Conte the trajectory is clear: trophies then turmoil. Except at Spurs, where he skipped the first bit. Here's why he left.

In essence, that defeat accelerated the changing perception of many that Conte was part of the problem and not the solution. Conte appreciated the hard work of another right-back, [Matt Doherty](http://espnfc.com/player/_/id/43575/Matt-Doherty), in rebuilding his fitness following a knee injury and his receptiveness to instruction, but he still pushed the club internally to sign another right wing-back in the January window. [Barcelona](/soccer/team?id=83) loanee [Clement Lenglet](http://espnfc.com/player/_/id/193917/Clément-Lenglet) was not Conte's first-choice centre-back option in summer 2022, but an alternative that would not unduly stretch the club's transfer budget. Sources suggest Perisic is one the hardest workers in the gym and conducts himself with a level of professionalism in both his conditioning and his conduct which Conte hoped would serve as an example to others. During one meeting with a fringe member of the squad and his representative to discuss his lack of game-time, both were shown video footage of the dugouts during a home match. The team had drifted in that time, falling to eighth in the Premier League and the concern over such a drop in performances led Spurs to return to Conte with a reduced gap between their assessment of the squad and his. [Manchester City](/soccer/team?id=382) (19%), [Manchester United](/soccer/team?id=360) (35%) and Newcastle (27%)), but Conte's staff defended their approach by pointing out the number of late goals they scored. [World Cup](/soccer/league/_/name/FIFA.WORLD) in Qatar, preseason for the 2022-23 campaign took things to another level. Conte was reported to be more critical in his assessment of the squad, believing significant investment and a sizeable turnover within the playing squad was required. The Argentine took Spurs to a League Cup final during his first full season in 2015, the Champions League final in 2019 and in between, transformed a side aspiring to join the elite into established top-four regulars. Yet the club have been so difficult to watch for the vast majority of the season, prioritising functionality over flair in a manner fundamentally at odds with the club's "To Dare Is To Do"' mantra, that fans gradually shifted their focus to Conte. Conte does not stick around long -- the 53-year-old has never stayed for more than three years in any managerial post -- but he is a serial, bonafide winner with five league titles in Italy and England.

Several first-team players at Tottenham Hotspur are 'pleased' to have seen head coach Antonio Conte leave the club, according to a report.

[Julian Nagelsmann](/people/julian-nagelsmann/) recently emerging as one of the frontrunners to succeed Conte. "A special thought to the Fans who always showed me support and appreciation, it's been unforgettable to hear them singing my name. [A recent report](/football/spurs/news/spurs-make-contact-with-nagelsmann-over-managerial-vacancy_510035.html) claims that Spurs have made contact with the 35-year-old who is at the top of [Levy's 10-man managerial shortlist](/football/spurs/sack-race/news/julian-nagelsmann-tops-10-man-shortlist-of-antonio-conte-replacements_510017.html). [allegedly keen](/football/spurs/sack-race/news/some-tottenham-players-want-antonio-conte-sacked-now_509487.html) to see the Italian sacked during the international break. "Football is passion. [Tottenham Hotspur](/football/spurs/) are 'pleased' to have seen head coach [Antonio Conte](/people/antonio-conte/) leave the club, according to a report.

London – Antonio Conte has thanked Tottenham Hotspur fans and all those at the club who shared his “passion” following his departure from the Premier League ...

Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte pays tribute to the Lilywhites' fanbase after his bitter exit from the North London club by mutual consent.

"We all need to pull together. Our journey together has ended, I wish you all the best for the future. "Football is passion.

Daniel Levy made the decision to sack Antonio Conte as Tottenham Hotspur manager last week with Cristian Stellini and Ryan Mason set to take charge until ...

Whoever is the coach, we players will always accept and play for him and for everyone else. [said in a statement](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/next-tottenham-manager-julian-nagelsmann-26565681) last week: "We have 10 Premier League games remaining and we have a fight on our hands for a Champions League place. [Stellini will oversee ten games in the top flight](https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/breaking-tottenham-antonio-conte-levy-26565037), with the aim of getting Spurs back into the Champions League for next season. Then we’ll see who comes in next season, but I enjoy the city and the club very much. "But life goes on and you just have to move on. Kulusevski said: “Always sad when a person you work with and have grown close to has to leave.

Antonio Conte is said to have pocketed £4million from Tottenham following his departure from the club as his cumulative fees from exits in his last three ...

[Have Your Say!](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/antonio-conte-spurs-tottenham-manager-29568231#comments-section) Who should replace Conte as Spurs boss? However, just as had proven the case at Stamford Bridge – his exit from the Milanese giants would prove to be dramatic. This constituted the most expensive sacking in football history – following an acrimonious legal battle that dragged on for 18 months. There had been suggestions that dismissing the Italian boss prior to his deal expiring could cost The North London club confirmed Cristian Stellini will be their acting head coach for the remainder of the season, with Ryan Mason his assistant. [parted company with Conte](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-antonio-conte-sacked-tottenham-29509000) this week after [his remarkable post-match press conference](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/antonio-conte-tottenham-press-conference-29494225) following the 3-3 draw with [Southampton](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/southampton-fc) last weekend.