‘He don’t care’ – Kulusevski explains how brutal and ‘fun’ training under Conte has been
Dejan Kulusevski has said that the Tottenham players have worked harder over the last couple of weeks than they did during pre-season.
The Tottenham players who were not at the World Cup have been put through their paces by Antonio Conte and his coaching staff at Hotspur Way the last couple of weeks.
Most of the players who travelled to Qatar have now seemingly joined the group, with only two of the three semi-finalists yet to arrive at the club.
When asked about how training under Conte has been, Kulusevski told Football.London: “No, he (Conte) is good. He has been. He don’t care about anything, you’ve just got to do the work.
“It don’t matter if you’re cold, if you’re hurt. It don’t matter if it’s dark or if it’s raining, you’ve just got to do the work and that’s how it is supposed to be.”
Back in pre-season, Conte infamously made the Tottenham players sprint 42 lengths of the pitch in the 30-degree heat of Seoul following a full-pitch game, with the likes of Harry Kane and Son Heung-min collapsing with exhaustion in the middle of the session (Daily Mail).
Kulusevski insisted that the sessions over the last couple of weeks have been even harder than the ones in pre-season.
The Swede said: “It has been like another pre-season. The thing we did before we just forgot everything and started over from the beginning with hard work and just a lot of running and gym. I think it was a little harder than pre-season. We did a lot of running, a lot of gym.
“It has been a lot of training, been so much running in the dark but in a way that is fun. It is fun also with your teammates, with your brothers so we’ve been enjoying it. Sometimes the light doesn’t work so you know you have to run in the dark.”
Kulusevski, who missed more than a month of action with a hamstring injury in the first part of the campaign, remarked that he is fully fit and raring to go for Boxing Day.
He added: “I feel good, I feel very good. Now I think it is just the moment to rest for these three or four days before the real games start,” said the attacker. “I think the work has been done now and it is time to recover and be ready for Monday.”
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One would expect nothing less from Conte and his coaching staff. This mini pre-season would have likely done wonders to the likes of Kulusevski and Doherty, who were perhaps not at 100 per cent during the first part of the 2022-23 campaign.
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