Conte Destroyed My Confidence At Tottenham – Spence

Tottenham fullback Djed Spence has disclosed that former manager Antonio Conte destroyed his confidence at the club.

In an interview with Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, Spence stated that Conte was never impressed with his game. “It wasn’t a nice feeling,” Spence told the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast. “Especially as I was coming to the club on a high, I was confident, I was buzzing, had just won promotion.

“Then it was like running into a brick wall. It shattered my confidence a bit, obviously I’m young. It’s not nice to hear. I knew it was rubbish at the time. It wasn’t a nice feeling. I was even going into the club like (puffs out cheeks) and, ‘What am I doing?’”

“I feel like whatever I did, that man wasn’t happy about anything.Even if you did the right things, you were like, ‘Did I do the right thing?’ Cos he’s not really a complimenting guy. It gets to a point where you don’t really need validation from a coach. You just go, ‘Oh’. I probably had one conversation with him.”