The game around Harry Kane is in full swing and although Tottenham Hotspur is doing everything they can to keep the top striker on board, the new manager Ange Postecoglou has not received any guarantees.
“No, I have not received any guarantees about Kane’s future”
Bayern Munich is bidding for Kane and wants to get the striker to Munich as soon as possible. “No, I have not had any certainty and I do not expect any certainty, because with things like this there is no certainty,” says Postecoglou at his first press conference. “I’m trying to focus on the things I know now and what I know now is that Harry is part of this squad. He is looking forward to training again.”
Postecoglou says it already: certainty does not exist in football, so there is a chance that Kane will go to Bayern after all. “If I worry too much about the impact it can have, then the focus is no longer on building a team, because that is what will bring us success. What matters in the long run goes beyond individuals. It’s more about the decisive factor about who we want to be as a team and the most important people in it,” he added.
Richarlison about Conte: “He yelled at me for almost two hours”
Ange Postecoglou has been Richarlison’s new coach at Tottenham Hotspur since June. The Greek-Australian trainer came over from the Scottish Celtic.
Before that, Richarlison and Antonio Conte were certainly not friends during their collaboration at Tottenham Hotspur, the Brazilian striker tells the podcast Qua Papinho. “During a team meeting, he cursed me for almost two hours,” Richarlison says.
Richarlison came to work under Conte following his transfer from Everton to Tottenham Hotspur in the summer of 2022. But the Brazilian failed to make his mark at The Spurs. The Brazilian striker was not even always sure of a basic place.
When Richarlison asked for more playing time in the media, it went down the wrong way with Conte. “I apologized to him afterwards and told him I’d understand if he wanted to punish me,” he revealed.
“He responded by saying that he was in charge and that he would show it. In a team meeting, he then cursed me for almost two hours,” said Richarlison.
Conte was fired from Tottenham Hotspur at the end of March after disappointing results. In interviews the Italian coach gave in the weeks leading up to his sacking. Conte had already criticized his players on several occasions. For example, he said that he only sees ‘selfishness’ in his team.
