Spurs players expect new head coach next season

 

Tottenham players expect it is only a matter of time before Antonio Conte leaves the club.

Conte is out of contract in the summer and many players now think they will be working under a new head coach next season.

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The players are willing to accept responsibility for poor performances and results but there is a sense Conte came close to crossing a line by calling them selfish and questioning their commitment to the club on Saturday after the 3-3 draw at Southampton.

Tottenham do not play again for a fortnight and that has given chairman Daniel Levy a short period of time to decide whether he should take any action against Conte.

Conte has clarified to the Spurs board that his furious outburst was aimed purely at the players and not the owner or the chairman. It is said to be business as usual at Tottenham despite his extraordinary rant.

He also appeared to attack the club’s ownership but it is understood Conte’s clarification to the board pointed out he asked why only the club and managers take responsibility for not winning while the players get “alibis”.

“The club has the responsibility for the transfer market, every coach that stayed here has the responsibility.

“Twenty years there is the owner and they never won something but why? The fault is only for the club, or for every manager that stay here?

“You are finding an alibi, another alibi. You try to find an excuse for the players. OK, continue to do this, to find an excuse for the players. You do only this! You do only this. Excuses for the players. ‘But the players, maybe, my future, then we lost confidence, they lost spirit, they lost being a team’. Excuses. Excuses. Excuses. Try to protect them every time.”

Players and staff are currently on a pre-scheduled two days off and will report back to the training ground on Tuesday, which would have been the case regardless of the result.