As videos of Antonio Conte’s press conference began to spread, and more Tottenham Hotspur players privately declared their disgruntlement, there was a scramble at the club’s top levels. That was to decipher whether the manager had actually said anything that could be construed as directly critical of the hierarchy and whether that made his job untenable.
The view was that he hadn’t, but that doesn’t necessarily make Conte worth persisting with. The mood in the dressing room is now described as “close to toxic”.
