If Antonio Conte does walk back into Hotspur Way later this week then it will make for the most awkward of returns.
The Italian blasted his players during a passionate 10-minute barrage of criticisms, calling them "selfish" and stating that he could "see only 11 players that play for themselves". Conte called out the culture within Tottenham that he believes has allowed the problems to manifest themselves over the past two decades.
"They are used to it here, they are used to it. They don't play for something important," he said. "They don't want to play under pressure, they don't want to play under stress. It is easy in this way. Tottenham's story is this. 20 years there is the owner and they never won something but why? The fault is only for the club or for every manager that stay here? I have seen the managers that Tottenham had on the bench. You risk to disrupt the figure of the manager and to protect the other situation in every moment."
