davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Those words he spoke could have been spoken with much more accuracy by Benitez:Interesting to hear Conte say the level at Tottenham wasn't great and they're supposed to be one of the bigger better clubs in the league. Why has the standard of footballers diminished so much? As they've become more and more athletic and playing to tactics the actual standard of the actual footballing talent has just gone down.
Or has the fact a lot of the better players are happy bench warming for the odd few minutes in the Champions league. This game as a spectacle, outside of a few clubs, is on its arse it really is. I never before since these last few years seen so many abject performances and ones that just look like the players don't give a crap.
It looks like it isn't only us. What has happened to these players who get paid a kings ransom every week that is way beyond their ability.
It is managers who take the blame but by heck I am sick to the back teeth of modern day pros taking liberties with our support, knowing grounds will always be full in the Premier league, in the past people would have voted with their feet to let them know it wasn't good enough.
How do we fix it?
"I am happy to stay here but at the same time I must be honest and tell you we need to work a lot to improve the quality of the [current] squad. We are Tottenham and Tottenham in this moment, there is an important gap.
If someone thinks that a new coach arrives and Conte won in the past and then I am a magician ... but the only magic I can do is to work. To bring work and work to improve, to bring my methods, my ideas of football. But we have to understand that we need time.
I want to be honest that we need to work a lot to improve the situation. We need time and patience. I don’t know what happens in the future but I am here because I am happy to stay here, to work for Tottenham.”