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Jordan takes aim at Conte for doing nothing but 'b**** and whine' during Spurs reign

talksport.com, 21 March 2023, 12:50
Simon Jordan says that Antonio Conte has 'done nothing but b*** and whine', leading to his current Tottenham situation.

The Italian boss is set to be sacked this week following his stunning rant over the weekend in which he took aim at the club's players and lack of success over recent years.

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As a result, his days in north London look set to be numbered, leaving Daniel Levy with the prospect of finding a new manager with two months of the season remaining.

Part of Conte's grievance is to do with Tottenham's ambitions and their inability to win silverware during his tenure, something that Jordan told White and Jordan is the responsibility of him as the head coach.

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Speaking to Jim White, Jordan said: "Some of the things he says are right, but which bill of sale did you get? Did you walk into Daniel Levy's office after they were clamoring for you to come in after the disaster that was Nuno Espirito Santo and say 'listen son, your job is to win the Premier League and win the Champions League and nothing else is acceptable'. He wasn't told that.

"He'll have been told that, dollars for donuts, your job is to make us competitive. Your job is to get is in the top four season upon season to make sure we're in the Champions League and you know what, maybe win the FA Cup if you can get past Sheffield United! I think that's categorically his brief.

"Do you know what you do? You don't take the job in the first place, you understand the landscape, you do the job to the best of your ability and you leave it in a better position than you took it on.

"You can then walk out the door saying 'job done, here's what happened and I can let you in on what Levy told me when I walked through the door.

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"All you lot who thought I was a nailed on winner and was coming here to achieve things, what I was told, my brief was to get us in the top four, compete in this league, make us competitive and give us a chance to launch from'.

"What have you done about that, then? What you've done is you've walked through the door, you've done nothing but b**** and whine from the moment you lost to Mura in the European Conference League to the game against Burnley, forward through to the summer, bought £170million worth of players, no one heard you carp and whine in the summer about how you weren't being supported and all of a sudden things have changed in your life.

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"Some of them are legitimate things - bereavements and illnesses change people's minds but if you want to set a place on fire with your observations then the challenge for me in this modern day of football is that you get football managers getting paid F-off money and telling everybody to F-off when it doesn't suit them.

"His job, in my view, was to make Tottenham better and more competitive and to fulfill the brief."

Asked if his desire to win something was unrealistic, Jordan said: "Okay and that's fine Jim, how about you beat a weakened Sheffield United in the FA Cup and give yourself a chance in the quarter-finals against Blackburn? How about you put a performance in against AC Milan? How about you don't change a team when you're 3-1 up against bottom of the league Southampton? It's his team.

"I was absolutely in that camp that he's a nailed-on winner, but that was the Conte I believe in my mind's eye. That was not the Conte who they've got now."

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