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How Man Utd interest got Spurs star in trouble with Pochettino

How Man Utd interest got Spurs star in trouble with Pochettino

Eric Dier claims that speaking to Jose Mourinho got him into trouble with Mauricio Pochettino.

Dier recently spoke about last year’s EPL fixture against Manchester United, in which he was held up in the tunnel chatting to the Special One.

Speaking in a recent Sunday Times interview, the Tottenham man claimed that Pochettino saw this as “a lack of respect”.

Pochettino didn’t take it well, and wrote in his book that he saw the two 'laughing and speaking in Portuguese' and described it as a 'Mourinho tactic.'

Dier, however, has a different version.

"We talking for a very long time," he told the London paper.  "And all of that week, really, we were in constant dialogue. It was a difficult week for me."

“The manager’s point of view was [the friendliness with Mourinho] was disrespectful to him.

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"[The dialogue] was more him getting that message across than me getting my message across.”

"I completely understand where the manager was coming from but I believe I was stuck in the middle of something I couldn’t really affect.”

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