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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 you 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 that he'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 the event is where 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 Serraia expert James Horncastle.

So bear in mind I've'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

big European away win of the sort that Tottenham hadn't really had since Iax I thought last night.

So maybe that does colour perceptions a bit. I think certainly objectively

Contes is doing really really well you know he inherited the team when they were a mess. He dragged them to fourth.

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