If it hadn’t cost him so much money, Antonio Conte could have been forgiven for tearing out his hair. During a typically earnest round-table transfer discussion, Sky Sports presenter Jo Wilson asked her colleague, Michael Bridge, for his thoughts on Tottenham Hotspur’s not entirely unexpected failure to sign Luis Díaz.
On the back of footage filmed some weeks ago of an extremely morose, middle-aged Conte telling reporters: “For sure we need to improve the quality of our squad,” Bridge explained, with the gravitas one might expect from a father explaining to his small child that a beloved hamster has died, why the Italian won’t be improving it by securing the services of the Porto winger.
