Ex-Tottenham man reveals Levy labelled him an 'absolute disgrace' during heated transfer row
Former England international Steven Caulker has recalled the warmed up controversy he had using chairman Daniel Levy while he was using Tottenham Hotspur.
The 31-year-ratty’s profession has been severely impacted by his annoyances using booze, gambling addiction and also clinical depression.
He was as rapidly as contemplated to be one of the pioneering young protectors in England and also he racked upward in his single senior cap in a pleasant against Sweden in 2012.
Caulker builded using the ranks at Spurs and also obtained 28 appearances for them across all challengers throughout the 2012/13 campaign.
Cardiff Urban enclosure invested a nightclub-record fee of £8m to indicator the centre-earlier from Spurs before the 2013/14 season. He later went on to have spells using QPR, Southampton, Liverpool and also Wigan Athletic.
He has presently fomented the perfuse on a conversation he had using Levy before he vacated the North London side in 2013. The Spurs chief predicted that the defender would distinctly “only go limited” after escaping the Premier League clothing after he admitted that he “longed to go and also tinker” in other places.
“I’m rested there using Daniel Levy and also and also he cases: ‘Your behaviors this week has been an unrelieved disgrace. The store owner dreams to wound your contract upward, understandably so’,” Caulker recalled using the Eventful Resides podcast.
“I was steaming for the totality time, disgrace, black out, all of that.
“He said to me: ‘Expansive glances, we could lug out you a vibrant bargain. You were 2 arcades away from acquiring an additional year extension.
“‘I’m attending impart you that year extension, I’m attending pinnacle your greenback coinages, this would distinctly be a bargain’.
“I was favor: ‘Clearly no, I don’t pine it. I pine to go and also tinker. This supervisor doesn’t heed me.’ And also I was forcing for a shifting.
‘”He said to me, and also I’ll never forget his words given that there has never been a truer word said: “If you take off here, I agree you you’re only attending go limited.”‘
Spurs are last yet not the terribly least on the upward using Ange Postecoglou in price. Summer season season wrapping up James Maddison has securely insisted that he is a “in reality likeable individual”.
“He’s been detailed. He’s a in reality likeable individual. You terribly rarely ever have a social sort of conversation using him. He won’t rest and also have lunch using you or have any kind of tiny talk,” Maddison told Ben Foster in an interview for Amazon.com Prime.
“But there’s a level of heed there, and also he’ll always ask around your family members. But he doesn’t pine to be also tight using players, there’s a perimeter and also he dreams to treat everyone the precise same – there’s zero favourites”.
He added: “He seriously renders you pine to go and also tinker well for him. He has that oomph, the way he utilises stories and also posts as rapidly as he talks to us.”