How to solve Conte’s problem

The classic cycle of Antonio Conte was repeated at Tottenham: building a corporate identity as quickly as possible against the backdrop of a clear improvement in results, an important success at the end of the season, tangible financial support from management, endless complaints about lack of ambition at all levels, plunging the club into a […]

The classic cycle of Antonio Conte was repeated at Tottenham: building a corporate identity as quickly as possible against the backdrop of a clear improvement in results, an important success at the end of the season, tangible financial support from management, endless complaints about lack of ambition at all levels, plunging the club into a toxic atmosphere that in the final days, it influences from within even more than any tactical problems.

We have seen this many times already – and always the result was a double reaction. Full confidence in Conte’s top coaching and total confidence that he and the club do not have a joint future.

He gives unique things and then crosses them out with self-destruction. The first delights, and the second infuriates.

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Conte’s football is a set of specific practices, not experiential action or allowing players the freedom to create organized chaos.

In general, many coaches who play positional football can be attributed to this path, but Antonio went the farthest.

Where the conditional Guardiola has a set of principles that players gradually learn, Conte has automatisms that are learned by heart.

There are many coaches with a recognizable style, but no one goes into specifics at the level of Conte. That might be a downside, but for copy ability, it’s a giant plus, and copying is a key element of any franchise.

Football Conte gives the most powerful quick effect. This is partly due to automatisms: other system trainers place more emphasis on learning and Antonio on memorization. At first, it is always extremely effective.

In the course of last season, Antonio picked Tottenham at the most critical point. The Italian said that getting into the Champions League from such a position would be a miracle. The team were in 9th place with a negative goal difference and played so badly that the FiveThirtyEight model rated Brighton as less likely to qualify for the Champions League. Instant transformation from such a position fits perfectly into the effect described above. 

Football Conte is quite versatile. Practice shows that for a quick effect and transformation into a recognizable team, restructuring is not required. There are a number of positions that are not in other schemes, but Conte simply finds new roles for the players. So Cesar Azpilcueta and Ben Davis became extreme central defenders, Victor Moses and Ivan Perisic became laterals.

Moreover, in the process of reinventing the players, Antonio tends to develop them in a new way. Yes, there are transfer wars going on, but they have more to do with the Italian’s ego. In the short term, it produces results on the training field and adapts to almost any set of performers. Such versatility is an attractive element when we talk about copying within a franchise.

Perhaps in modern football, there is no coach with such unique picks and such unnecessary crashes. Attempts to leave genius and eliminate toxicity led to an unusual thought experiment. Alas, the scenario is much more likely in which Conte will find another adventurous club with which he will repeat the cycle.