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So we'll get to Bayamunic Sacking Julienavansman shortly, but late last night, Tottenham announced that Antonio Conte will leave the club by mutual consent.

We can talk to the Athletics, Tottenham writer Jack Pitt Brooke. Not a surprise.

The timing was a slight surprise, but the fact

that he's gone is not a surprise. I was at his press conference at Southampton where he basically detonated his Totman tenure. And as soon as he walked out of the room, I thought, he's made his job completely untenable, and there's no way he can take charge at Goodison Park on the 3rd of April. to be honest, I think it was, I expect them to do it quicker than they did. I didn't expect it to take eight days, but no, him leaving the club is not a surprise. Why did it take eight days? Do we know? They were negotiating severance, which took a while. You know, he had just under four million pounds left in his contract at the time. I don't think they particular, I don't think Tottenham were in a rush to give him all that money in one go.

There's also the

issue of his backroom staff. As it's turned out, Christiana Stelini has stayed on, which is slightly

surprising, unusual in these circumstances. I think Tottenham were also exploring the possibility of

which other permanent managers might have been out there in case they wanted to do a quick permanent replacement rather than doing this kind of strange joint interim model, which is now what they're going to finish the season with. Why has he stayed? Stelini? Well, I imagine that the argument is that Spursy's best form this season, and this is quite a low bar, was when Stelini and Mason were in charge when

Conte was recuperating from goldbladder surgery in Italy. That said, the problem with Conte is not

only the comments that he made at Southampton, is the fact that the players have not enjoyed the

training or the tactics all season. And so if you're keeping the guy in who was Conte's number two

and he's very loyal to Conte and in February, you was, you know, taking instructions down the phone from Conte on training and selection and everything, that makes me think it won't be any sort of a clean break and that Tottenham will not get the kind of new manager bounce that I'm sure they would have wanted from this change. It's just a case of muddling through then, basically, with fingers crossed

that they might get forth. Yeah, absolutely is a case of muddling through. You could see this

in the sort of very brief statement that Daniel Levy put out last night where he made no reference

to Antonio Conte or thanking him from his time or the circum, even referred to the circumstances

of his departure. It was all about, you know, it's really important that we, even referred to the circumstances of his departure.

It was all about, you know, it's really important that we all pulled together to try and get fourth place. And I think Spurs have just got to hope that they'll get enough points and that maybe the Liverpool or Newcastle United will stumble. And they can get forth and then suddenly there'll be a much more attractive proposition to which any of the managers they'll be speaking to about taking over for next season.

How many are we expecting them to be talking to? If I keep reading this list, it looks like about a dozen at the moment. It depends who's doing the talking, because I'm sure both

Daniel Levy and Fabia Parachi will each have their own ideas on who's on who we best to come in.

I think Nagorsman is probably the most popular candidate internally. He's someone taught him

for a while. Maristio-Po-Pocitino is obviously the most popular candidate with the with the fan base,

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