Antonio Conte ‘disturbed’ by coverage of Tottenham’s transfer window dealings

Tottenham boss Antonio Conte says he is “disturbed” at the coverage of an interview he gave with Italian TV and does not understand why people are trying to create a problem between him and the club.

The 52-year-old said in a rights holders broadcast interview with Sky Sports Italia that his squad was “on paper weakened” after the January transfer window where the club signed Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur and allowed Tanguy Ndombele, Dele Alli, Giovani Lo Celso and Bryan Gil to leave.

Conte also spoke about the club’s transfer policy and how it will take time to bear fruit and the club has received plenty of negative coverage as a result this week.

There were definite translation issues given Conte gave the interview in his native language and the Italian came out swinging at his press conference ahead of Saturday’s daunting trip to Manchester City.

He insisted he does not need to use the media as he tells chairman Daniel Levy his thoughts, while also revealing the club have asked him not to do any more interviews with Italian media.

“I don’t understand why someone wants to try to create a problem with me,” he said. “Not only me but also in the past.

“I read stories in the past about this club and it creates a problem with the coach and the chairman and the club. The chairman knows very well my thoughts.

“It’s not important for me to go to the media and speak to the media. If I have to speak with him, I go to speak with him. Sorry but I was a bit disturbed by this situation, especially because I had an interview with the Italian media.

“It means the club now doesn’t want me to speak to Italian media because the translation was not so clear with my thoughts.”

I don’t understand why someone wants to try to create