Tottenham’s squad had a two hour argument after they lost 4-0 at Chelsea, reveals Sandro [Thursday's Papers]

Aside from Manchester City’s exit to Barcelona in the Champions League, the big story across several of the backpages on Thursday is news of a two hour argument between Tottenham’s players.

The story of the in-fighting in the Tottenham squad comes a day after manager Tim Sherwood slagged off his players in a press conference before playing Benfica in the Europa League.

Spurs midfielder Sandro has blown the lid on the internal bust-up, delivering the following quotes which have been picked up by Th Sun, The Mirror and the Independent:

We spent more than two hours in a meeting amongst the players and we said what we had to say. Everyone was shouting.

Every player had their fair share to say, let’s put it this way. We all spoke amongst ourselves.

The manager said the same thing to us as what he said to the press. We had our meeting post-match – sometimes one player got a bit more stressed out and we tried to calm him down and talk in a nice way. We spent about two hours that way. 

We have to put our hearts on the table and pull our sleeves up for the benefit of our team and ourselves. But from now on if someone is not doing their work properly, then I think now we – especially the older players – can say something. 

In the past, we probably didn’t say anything because we didn’t want anyone to take it the wrong way. From now on we will pull our sleeves up and tell whoever is not doing their job.

It is not only the new players. It is everyone. No-one said things before. But now everyone knows. I think everyone can go for it now. This is going to help us.

We need to show a bit more in next match, to tell the manager that we care. We will do that.

Copies of the backpages of the papers on Thursday reporting the Spurs bust up can be read below.

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