Antonio Conte has stated that winning mentality can not be bought with money but insist the right people will bring it to the club.
Tottenham Hotspurs new manager Antonio Conte has stated that it doesn’t cost money to have winning mentality but insist the right people will bring it to the club.
The Italian will take charge of his first match in the Premier League against Everton after a 3-2 victory against Vitesse in the Europa conference league.
Conte signed an 18-month contract and will be expected to end the club’s 13-year wait for a trophy dating back to the 2008 League Cup triumph.
While speaking ahead of the game against Everton, he said the squad have to change their mindset, starting with spending longer periods thinking about the sport.
“For sure, this aspect we have to work to improve,” he said. “It is not easy because you have to work every day and you have to breathe a winning mentality every day.
“It is impossible to invent, it is impossible to pay because it doesn’t cost money for a winning mentality but I think you have to take the right people to bring this into the club. You must start every day with this type of mentality.
“You must start to think football for many hours in your life to improve the desire to win, to start to think, ‘OK, I want to win but I know that it means sacrifice, it means to suffer, it means to work very hard.’
“And if you start to think in this way, it means that you want to become a winner otherwise you will continue to stay in your medium level. Most of your time in your life, you have to dedicate to football and it means you want to improve your level.
“In Tottenham, we need to improve the level of the team if we want to try to reach some targets in the present and this future. I think this is the key. We need to start to think football more and more and more.”
