Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte slammed by Jamie O’Hara for rant after Southampton draw

Antonio Conte went on a surprising rant after Tottenham Hotspur’s 3-3 draw against Southampton in the Premier League away from home this weekend.

After the draw, the Italian manager slammed the club’s history, culture, and capability of challenging for silverware, and labelled his players ‘selfish’. It was a rant that was, honestly, over the top.

Jamie O’Hara, as he usually does, has offered his candid response to Conte’s comments. According to the former Spurs and Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder, the former Chelsea boss is asking to be sacked.

He told TalkSPORT:

“I can’t get behind a manager slaughtering his team when an international break is coming up and he’s basically saying to Levy ‘I beg you to sack me’. He rested Harry Kane in an FA Cup game, we lost that game, the performance was pathetic.

“He dug the players out after that and I have no problem with that because it was pathetic.  Then you go and lose against AC Milan, another pathetic performance, but they are his tactics as well.”

Is there a big severance package in Conte’s contract that ensures he gets a payout if he is sacked? If so, his rant and O’Hara’s aforementioned could make some sense.

That isn’t to point fingers at him. Conte could just be speaking from his heart and trying to get a response from the players and the boardroom ahead of the summer transfer window.

But he seems to be trying to show, at least with his latest comments, that Tottenham aren’t at the level that he wants them to be.

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Well, isn’t that why he hired him? To take us up a notch? The timing, nature, and intensity of Conte’s rant were uncalled for. It could have been put across in a much better manner.

It seems that the love affair between Spurs and the Italian tactician is on its last legs. A change of management this summer, hence, looks likely.