Conte, Klopp, Guardiola and Tuchel Now All In England - The European Super League Already Exists
- 2 years ago
Tottenham's appointment of the Italian means that four of the world's top five coaches are now plying their trade in the Premier League
Antonio Conte’s arrival at Tottenham Hotspur is one of the greatest coups pulled off by a Premier League club this century.
Despite their super-club pretensions, a solitary League Cup is all Spurs have won in the last three decades, while 60 years have passed since they last won the league. Conte has lifted five league titles in the last nine years.
But those are antiquated measures of power and status in the modern game and, as extraordinary as it sounds, Tottenham are actually the second-biggest club Conte has ever managed – financially speaking.
Forbes’ list of the most valuable clubs in 2021 has Spurs 10th, one place behind Paris Saint-Germain and above both Juventus and Inter.
England is now undoubtedly the seat of power in world football. Six of Forbes’ top ten list are English clubs, as were five of the last eight Champions League finalists.
Such a growing imbalance of resources and success has huge implications for European football and for the spectre of a Super League, and if last year’s all-English final felt like an important symbolic moment in the dynamic shift, that’s nothing compared to Conte accepting the Spurs job.
That’s because real power – truly insulating, exponential power – comes from elite management of the thing itself; of the actual football being played on the pitch.
Right now, the Premier League has almost a complete set of the world’s super-managers, of its genius tacticians.
Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Thomas Tuchel, and Antonio Conte are four of the top five, with Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone and Bayern Munich’s Julien Nagelsmann the only top-tier coaches missing.
By the end of the season, Manchester United will probably have hired Mauricio Pochettino, arguably the next man on the list, leaving PSG searching for a B-lister, while it is conceivable that Arsenal or Newcastle United will offer too-good-to-turn-down money to Simeone within the next couple of years.
Where would that leave the rest of Europe? We are already seeing a worrying dearth of quality outside of England. Proof enough that until recently both Barcelona and Real Madrid had ex-Everton managers at the helm.
England’s financial dominance has been secured for a decade or more, but it is only in the last few years that clubs have become savvy to the value of hiring elite managers at the top of their game.
It has completely revolutionised the tactical landscape of the Premier League and created a new order that threatens to drain resources out of mainland Europe.
#SuperLeague #England #AntonioConte #JurgenKlopp #PepGuardiola #ThomasTuchel #PremiereLeague
Source: https://www.goal.com/en/news/conte-klopp-guardiola-and-tuchel-now-all-in-england-the-european-/19srvo05jjvnp1o7gn81y2h8t3
Antonio Conte’s arrival at Tottenham Hotspur is one of the greatest coups pulled off by a Premier League club this century.
Despite their super-club pretensions, a solitary League Cup is all Spurs have won in the last three decades, while 60 years have passed since they last won the league. Conte has lifted five league titles in the last nine years.
But those are antiquated measures of power and status in the modern game and, as extraordinary as it sounds, Tottenham are actually the second-biggest club Conte has ever managed – financially speaking.
Forbes’ list of the most valuable clubs in 2021 has Spurs 10th, one place behind Paris Saint-Germain and above both Juventus and Inter.
England is now undoubtedly the seat of power in world football. Six of Forbes’ top ten list are English clubs, as were five of the last eight Champions League finalists.
Such a growing imbalance of resources and success has huge implications for European football and for the spectre of a Super League, and if last year’s all-English final felt like an important symbolic moment in the dynamic shift, that’s nothing compared to Conte accepting the Spurs job.
That’s because real power – truly insulating, exponential power – comes from elite management of the thing itself; of the actual football being played on the pitch.
Right now, the Premier League has almost a complete set of the world’s super-managers, of its genius tacticians.
Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Thomas Tuchel, and Antonio Conte are four of the top five, with Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone and Bayern Munich’s Julien Nagelsmann the only top-tier coaches missing.
By the end of the season, Manchester United will probably have hired Mauricio Pochettino, arguably the next man on the list, leaving PSG searching for a B-lister, while it is conceivable that Arsenal or Newcastle United will offer too-good-to-turn-down money to Simeone within the next couple of years.
Where would that leave the rest of Europe? We are already seeing a worrying dearth of quality outside of England. Proof enough that until recently both Barcelona and Real Madrid had ex-Everton managers at the helm.
England’s financial dominance has been secured for a decade or more, but it is only in the last few years that clubs have become savvy to the value of hiring elite managers at the top of their game.
It has completely revolutionised the tactical landscape of the Premier League and created a new order that threatens to drain resources out of mainland Europe.
#SuperLeague #England #AntonioConte #JurgenKlopp #PepGuardiola #ThomasTuchel #PremiereLeague
Source: https://www.goal.com/en/news/conte-klopp-guardiola-and-tuchel-now-all-in-england-the-european-/19srvo05jjvnp1o7gn81y2h8t3