‘Very hard to achieve’: Bielsa delivers honest verdict on what Conte is trying to do at Tottenham

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Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa has delivered his verdict on what Antonio Conte is trying to do at Tottenham Hotspur.

The Italian is an incredible appointment for Spurs. Conte is a proven winner, who has won league titles in Italy and England. He’s exactly the kind of manager who can end their trophy drought, and Bielsa is a big fan.

The Leeds boss heaped praise on what Conte has achieved as a manager over the years. He also had his say on the football philosophy that the Italian is trying to implement at Tottenham now.

Bielsa believes it’s very difficult to achieve what Conte wants.

What Marcelo Bielsa said about Antonio Conte

Bielsa said about Conte, as per Leeds Live: “He’s a genuine representative in his country of managers. He has triumphed in every team he has managed. A reference in world football, not only in the league he participates in. He’s a coach who gets very high performances from his players.

“What does unify all the coaches is the virtues they extract from the players they coach. That demands how you prepare them and to convince them. In those two aspects, to prepare them and convince them, he is a master.”

Asked about Conte’s philosophy, he said: “Intensity. The collective sense. Teams that attack with a lot of players, but not because of this do they defend with less players. That’s a virtue that’s very hard to get in a team.

“Those things I’ve named are very hard to achieve, to attack with many without defending with less, or defending with many and with that not meaning you attack with less players. That’s very marked out in the teams he’s managed. Something that stands out and is difficult to achieve.”

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Conte’s philosophy is extremely demanding. The players have to be switched on throughout the game and he will not tolerate any positional indiscipline when his side don’t have the ball.

The best we’ve seen of Tottenham over the last 10 years was under Mauricio Pochettino. The Argentine made Spurs a good team to watch, but if Conte can get his ideas across, Spurs could become even better,

Bielsa’s right, it will not be easy for Conte to achieve what he’s trying to do. The players at Tottenham aren’t quite of the same quality as he had at Chelsea and Juventus, and he may not have the money he needs to bring in reinforcements in January either.

That could complicate things for the Italian, but he has always found a way to succeed in his career and it won’t be a surprise to see him make Tottenham a really good side in the coming months.