Antonio Conte is really unimpressed with the Tottenham Hotspur medical team amid Oliver Skipp’s ongoing injury issue.
This is according to Sky Sports reporter Michael Bridge who was speaking to GiveMeSport about Conte’s response in a recent press conference to a question on the 21-year-old midfielder.
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The Spurs midfielder has been out of action since January and it is growing increasingly apparent the 52-year-old manager is not impressed with the club’s medical department.
“It is too easy for the doctors to work here because they don’t speak, they don’t explain what happens, you understand?” said the Italian.
It is believed Spurs and Conte were hit with a fresh setback to Skipp’s potential return recently, with the midfielder feeling discomfort having returned to on-field training.
And Bridge told GiveMeSport Conte’s recent comments had left many of the journalists attending the press conference confused as to whether he was being serious with his comments on the club’s medical department:
“Being in those press conferences when it’s being asked by the written press, he was really critical of the medical department. We thought he was joking,” he said.
“When I was talking to Alasdair Gold and Dan Kilpatrick after, I said, ‘how are you going to write this one up, because I got the impression he was serious’ and Ali Gold agreed and said, ‘yeah he was, he’s really not happy with the medical team’. But it’s not really their fault if Skipp has got a niggling long-term issue.”
TIF Thoughts on Bridge’s comments…
We agree with Bridge in the sense of not initially knowing whether Conte was being serious with his comments on his own medical team.
It is apparent he is growing frustrated by the 21-year-old’s absence from the side, however, we do wonder what more he wants from the medical department.
From the reports emerging, it seems the remedy for Skipp’s pelvic issue is rest, and with that in mind, it suggests there is actually very little the Spurs doctors could do to speed up a potential return.
However, there does not seem to be any real rush to get Skipp back into the XI with Spurs in fine form of late, with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Rodrigo Bentancur Conte’s two starting midfielders.
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