Antonio Conte employed that age-old tactic at Hotspur Way on Friday of lashing out at French reports linking him to PSG while not really convincing anyone that his future lies at Tottenham.
Managers love to be wooed. They want to feel wanted and if there's flattery to be had then they're not going to slap it away. Conte spends a lot of time telling everyone just how good he is and he likes to know he's in demand, particularly after last summer when reports claimed that Real Madrid, Manchester United and at first Spurs all baulked at his demands.
In one sense he did want to deny the PSG reports, because they claimed he had offered himself to the Parisian club, and the Italian hit out at them in a rather Donald Trump 'fake news' style, all the while making it clear to interested parties that he might be available in the summer. You half-expected the refrain of Carly Rae Jepsen's number one hit 'Call Me Maybe' to roll around the press conference room.
