A year on from taking charge, Antonio Conte has overseen

Tottenham's best start to a Premier League campaign and led them to Champions League

qualification as group winners. And yet a new contract still remains unsigned. I'm Mark Chapman

and this is the Athletic Football Podcast.

I think this club had a great vision outside of the pitch. Now I think we have to start to have a vision also on the pitch.

I think this is important if we want to win.

He wants to be shopping from the most expensive shops

and buying the best players for their positions.

It will eat him up inside if this is a team

that is not in a position to challenge.

If you look at the relationships Levy's had with all the other managers he's had,

I don't think he's ever had a situation where the manager has had this much leverage over him.

Conteer believes a lot in family, and Yventus were his family for a long time.

Joining us to discuss Antonio Conte's first year in charge at Tottenham, our spurs writer, Jack

Pittbrook and the athletic Seria expert James Horncastle. So bear in mind, I've said that.

One year in, Jack, Tottenham's best start to a premier league campaign and they win their

champions league group i mean this should be all bells and whistles and party central and balloons and

everything shouldn't it well yeah i mean everything feels better than morning after a big

european win particularly a big european away win of the sort that you know tottenham hadn't really

had since iax i I thought, last night.

So maybe that does colour perceptions a bit. I think certainly, objectively, Conte is doing

really, really well. You know, he inherited the team when they were a mess. He dragged them to

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