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Extended Clip - Antonio Conte To Juventus: Tottenham Manager To Return?
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Carlo Garganese and Nima Tavallaey debate and discuss all aspects of the rumors linking Tottenham manager Antonio Conte with a return to Juventus.
This is an extended clip from this week's Thursday episode of The Italian Football Podcast which is only available for patrons on Patreon.com/TIFP
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Transcript
The Agnelli Family and Juventus' Leadership Style
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast.
00:00:06
Speaker
Historically, the Aniele family are quite cold-blooded. I know they are. As most Bilderberg group founders are. As most lizards are. Yeah, exactly. They're quite cold-blooded and they think of things, they don't think of things, you know, emotionally. So I think that if Aniele saw Conte as somebody that would guarantee success and save him as well, I think he would bring him back.
00:00:33
Speaker
Well, he would, but would Conte accept it? Like that's the thing. I don't think I'm not so sure Antonio Conte does not forget people. Like he does not forget when he's been crossed. Okay, but let's say that he does return to Juventus.
Conte's Potential Return to Juventus: Pros and Cons
00:00:50
Speaker
With or without Aniele. Whoever, it doesn't matter. Let's say he does return.
00:00:55
Speaker
I just want to be on the record and say that I think that the only chance to counter returns to Juva is with another president and another. Yeah. Well, if he does return then, if he does return, would he be the right choice to get Juventus back? You'd win the Scurretto. I mean, it's easy. He'd be back in a place that he knows. He was the captain of probably one of the greatest Juva sides of all time. He's already been there as a manager. Everybody knows him. The club loves him. The fans love him.
00:01:22
Speaker
He, the squad is built to play a 3-5-2. He has one of the best number nines, future number nines and biggest prospects in the world in Blauwitsch. He's already got a left wing back in Kostich. I mean, come on, he'd be ideal. He'd be perfect. He'd be absolutely perfect. I mean, and you know, you'd buy maybe two or three players for him. He's got Bremer for crying out loud in the central defense.
00:01:46
Speaker
Are you kidding me? You don't give Antonio Conte Bremer. Like, it's just, you know, you can see the goal of her again. It's certainly tear up the place and he definitely, I'll tell you one thing he would do, he'd definitely get them fit, which they definitely, they definitely do. I mean, they can barely, they can barely run 15 minutes.
00:02:04
Speaker
Well, it would be bad news for Jay Medical because he'd get rid of every single one of them. He'd bring an exorcist and chase them all out. Yeah, they'd have to half their staff, wouldn't they? They'd have to lay off half the staff at Jay Medical. No, no, he'd go in there and he'd get rid of all of them. He'd bring his own fitness coaches. He'd go in and he'd probably bring Pintus back, which is amazing. I mean, it would be absolutely, he'd stabilize you there.
00:02:28
Speaker
and he'd want to stay and I think this time he would want to stay. It'd be good for Vlauvić as well, that's for sure. He would certainly improve him.
Short-Term vs Long-Term Strategy at Juventus
00:02:37
Speaker
I mean Vlauvić would turn into an absolute... But is he what Juventus need for the long term though? I mean we know that, you know, Juventus have been, and I said it on Monday, that there's a short-termism there with their transfer policy and that has been a huge, huge problem. You don't get that with Conte, you get quite short-termism with Conte as well when he's the manager. So
00:02:57
Speaker
You know, if he's there for one, two years, are they happy to win for a year and two and then, you know.
00:03:04
Speaker
afterwards they're left with aging players. I don't know. We're talking hypothetically here. I don't know. I think at this point, I don't think you can, it's like, you know, count your chickens before they're hatched. And also the whole thing with reheated soup, you know, we've seen that it rarely works when you reheat soup. Well, it depends on who, depends on what soup it is. Are we talking soup at
00:03:27
Speaker
I don't know, at the 99p store, or are we talking a delicious onion consume from the best restaurants in the world? I mean, it depends on what ingredients you use. As Mourinho famously said, first, you know, at the supermarket, you have first-class eggs, second-class eggs and third-class eggs.
The Role of a Sporting Director at Juventus
00:03:45
Speaker
And the more
00:03:45
Speaker
Some would have called Allegri first-class eggs. Well, I still think he's a fantastic coach. I think what's not working here is a combination of several things and he's kind of becoming the face of that. I think a lot of it is his own fault as well. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, for Juve, Juve is a club where winning is the only thing that matters.
00:04:13
Speaker
that's the only thing that matters. Long term, short term, in order to do that, you need to have a sporting director that knows what the hell he's doing. And Petraki is a name that I find really interesting being linked to you with, because I think he's a good sporting director. And I think he knows the city, obviously being in Turin with Torino.
00:04:33
Speaker
Petrachi Conte. They like each other. That we do. Is Petrachi good, though? I think he is. I do think he is. John is not a fan. Well, I look, I think that I put that more down to the other to the other person that John absolutely despises and Roma fans hate as well. James Palota, who Joe Takopina, our good friend Joe Takopina said on this show, is it nothing but a keyboard warrior?
00:04:58
Speaker
you know, that's who James Palota is. And then his entire tenure at the club was a joke at Roma. So that was more, I put that more, I think Petraki showing who he is. I mean, that's one aspect that I wanted to bring into this about Konti returning to Juve. If Petraki is appointed, then I'm almost comfortable to say I'm certain that Konti comes back.
00:05:23
Speaker
Because their relationship, we all know how good that is. They're BFFs, for crying out loud. I mean, they love each other. And Kante would have... And Petraki knows how Kante is. So there would be no problems for them to get along. Working relationship, yeah. No, no, no. They know each other. They've been friends for 20, 30 years. I mean, it's... If you appoint Petraki, then I think it's almost a shoe in that Kante comes back.
00:05:53
Speaker
That's the way I see it anyway. I think it would be too much, because that would be such a red carpet to conte that I think he would find it difficult to resist it.
Economic Considerations of Conte's Return
00:06:04
Speaker
And given that he's been away now from Italy for, I mean, if you were to, I mean, that's the end of this. It's one and a half years. I'm not entirely sure how it works with the creta crecitta, but I think maybe they can use it again for at least one a year of his wages.
00:06:21
Speaker
which would mean that maybe he would cost less than Allegri. Gross, if you know what I mean. So, now I think, like, Petraki is the key for me. If you want to unlock the Antonio Contador, the key is Petraki. Listen to the full show and all other episodes by going to patreon.com slash T-I-F-P and become a member for only $2.99 per month.