If Tottenham Hotspur are serious about challenging for trophies and ridding the club, once and for all, of its reputation for promising much but delivering nothing, chairman Daniel Levy should respond to manager Antonio Conte's remarkable postmatch rant at Southampton by offering him a new long-term contract.
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It would be a high-risk strategy, one which would almost certainly lead to some senior players heading for the exit door at the end of the season. But the choice facing Levy now is this: either back a group of players who have repeatedly failed under successive managers, or gamble on giving Conte the licence to dismantle the squad and surround himself with players who share his demanding, winning mentality.