{"id":12235,"date":"2023-03-23T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=291445"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T07:05:38","slug":"kulusevski-responds-to-contes-tottenham-outburst-and-issues-an-honest-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/kulusevski-responds-to-contes-tottenham-outburst-and-issues-an-honest-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulusevski responds to Conte\u2019s Tottenham outburst and issues an honest assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"b7f6337f-e19f-4336-8bab-f43615714255\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">After the 3-3 draw at Southampton, Dejan Kulusevski stated that he did not take offence at Antonio Conte\u2019s comments in his post-match press conference. After the Spurs blew a two-goal lead late in the game, the head coach attacked his players, calling them selfish and claiming they did not want to help one another.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"d6cfc800-e9af-4a83-ba48-825cc5166207\">As a result of Conte\u2019s explosive remarks, his position as Tottenham\u2019s head coach is now on the line, and his tenure in north London may be over soon. Kulusevski, who is currently away from Spurs on international duty with Sweden, was asked by Sky Sports about Conte. Following the game, he reflected on what had transpired at St Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"5ebc5e6c-25dc-4b8c-b498-f66f402a4735\">\u201cNo,\u201d responded Dejan Kulusevski when asked if he took offence at the comments. \u201cI know that I prepare myself to perform as well as possible, so I can always look in the mirror and see how well I have prepared myself.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"a417392b-6cac-44e9-8edd-1a145f806ff2\">\u201cSometimes I know I don\u2019t play well enough, and I can take responsibility for that, but what he said was for him, and that\u2019s his words. I respect him, and he helped me immensely during my career, so he\u2019s still a significant man in our club and my world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"4e70168d-09f1-4f7e-97fd-e9f8160e273a\">When asked if he was happily working with Conte, Kulusevski replied, \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dejan Kulusevski insists he is happy to play under Conte. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":34628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[571,1750,1162],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-antonio-conte","tag-daniel-levy","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}