The Athletic Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football podcast, sponsored by Bet365.

I'm Dan Bardell and each and every Friday myself and George Ellick will preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action alongside Bet365 Steve Reith.

On this week's show, we'll talk about Ronaldo Sawback ahead of the Manchester

Derby, Aaron Ramsdale's rapidly rising England stuck, and Will James Ward Prouse hurt

Aston Villa again. I'm going to go with yes. Right, first up though, guys, Antonio Conte is

back in the Premier League. I'm excited by this. I think this would be good for the Premier

League. I think it would be good for Spurs his top four hope, Steve. Have the odds change now he's

at Spurs? Yeah, just a little bit, Dan. Seven into six, top four, 1108 into five to four, top six.

I know his ex-Walls, but I just felt for Nuno a little bit. United. He could just see it all tumbling down in front of him. I think it was quite inevitable. They've acted very quickly, and for me, they've got the right man in. I think it'd be good, good for the Premier League and very good for Tottenham Hotspur and a clear upgrade for me. Yes, slightly frustrating for Spurs, George, is that they've kind of wasted 10 games because this is what they wanted back in the summer. I don't know what they've offered differently now, but he's there eventually. I mean, you could look at it two ways, couldn't you? Either it's frustrating they've ever given up 10 games, or at least they've got a manager bad enough and sackable enough that they were able to dispense with them pretty quickly

and bring in the man they wanted all along

because... up 10 games or at least they've got a manager bad enough and and sack a bud enough that

they were able to dispense with them pretty quickly and bring in the man they wanted all

along because there's no denying that bad decisions have led to the best outcome for spurs.

I found it quite surprising to see how much the narrative around Conte seems to be around

the way that he leaves teams after

he leaves them.

There's no denying that some of his recruitment has been centred around buying players

who, let's say, are ready to play rather than investing in youth.

But the dramatic just shift in trajectory of every team he's managed in the last decade is pretty

striking. I do think we are going to see a very quick improvement because he is a top

level tactician. He's a top level man manager, at least in the short term, and he understands

how to win games of football, and he's proven in the Premier League, because that is always, you know,

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