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Antonio Conte calls the latest meeting of Premier League clubs a WASTE of time and ‘like talking to a wall’… with the Tottenham boss convinced ‘everything was decided’ beforehand about playing through Covid crisis
- Premier League officials met with managers and players from top-flight clubs
- Tottenham boss Antonio Conte felt the whole meeting was a waste of time
- Conte is convinced that ‘everything was decided’ before the meeting had begun
- Players and managers have complained at being forced to play too many games
- Covid infections, fuelled by the Omicron variant, are leaving squads threadbare
Antonio Conte fumed that the Premier League’s latest meeting of its 20 clubs was a waste of time and it was akin to talking to a wall.
It was decided that the show would go on and there would be no Christmas circuit-breaker amid a rising number of Covid cases causing multiple postponements.
Conte, who has only just seen his Spurs side return to action following a mass outbreak, felt decisions had been made prior to the meeting and it was not worth it.
‘When you have a wall in front of you, you can say or ask what you want,’ Conte said on Friday. ‘But every decision was [already] taken.
‘We (managers) tried to speak. Some coaches tried to speak to ask about solutions but I think everything was decided and yesterday was a wall. For this reason also, I prefer not to go into the discussion or conversation.’
Antonio Conte labelled the latest Premier League meeting of all 20 clubs as a waste of time
The Tottenham boss felt decisions had already been made to keep games on rather than take a circuit-breaker for players amid a rising number of Covid outbreaks throughout…
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Source : dailymail
