Tottenham players preparing to experience gruelling Antonio Conte pre-season like no other

Next month will bring a pre-season like no other at Tottenham Hotspur. The Spurs players have never experienced a pre-season training camp quite like the one Antonio Conte and his fitness coaches Costantino Coratti, Gian Piero Ventrone and Stefano Bruno have planned for them.

Some of the longer-serving Tottenham squad members will have undergone the gruelling summers under Mauricio Pochettino as the Argentine looked to make them fit enough to carry out his energy-sapping pressing tactics. Yet Conte's pre-season schedule is said to require a whole new level of pushing their bodies to the limit.

For a little insight into how the very top players who have played for the Italian remember his summer training sessions, you only have to watch the first episode of Amazon's All or Nothing series documenting Juventus' season under Andrea Pirlo.

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During Pirlo's first pre-season as a Serie A coach, the young Juve boss is dealing with tired, complaining players on the pitches at the training ground and as they walk off after the session, one of his coaches says to him: "Anyway, players are always complaining."

Pirlo responds: "Sure. I don't give a crap that they complain. If they saw what we did with Conte, they'd kill themselves. [There were] people on the ground."

High-intensity drills, with extreme fitness work done in a concentrated amount of time, are understood to be the foundation of Conte's fitness philosophy. The 52-year-old Italian and his staff have already transformed the players' fitness within seven months of working around matches.

Harry Kane has stated that he is fitter than he ever has been in his career and even fringe