What Richarlison said to Conte in Tottenham team meeting as hilarious misunderstanding revealed

A misunderstanding at a Tottenham team meeting resulted in Richarlison telling Antonio Conte and his team-mates exactly what he thought of the Italian's tactics and formation with nothing held back.

While the Brazilian has enjoyed a good season under Ange Postecoglou so far with 10 goals and three assists from 22 Premier League matches for Spurs, in the last campaign after arriving in a £60million deal from Everton, Richarlison struggled to justify his price tag under Conte with just one Premier League goal.

Now, in a chat with Brazilian YouTuber Fred on the Desimpedidos channel which is teasing a longer video to come this month, Tottenham right-back Emerson Royal and Richarlison spoke at the former's house about how a moment of poor timekeeping from the forward led to a misunderstanding and a very honest and awkward riposte from Richarlison last season which had his team-mates laughing behind him.

«He arrived late at the meeting on the day of the game, and the guy [Conte] said 'do you have something to say to the team? Do you want to apologize to the team?',» remembered Emerson while laughing. «He asked the other guys who had arrived late too, the guys said 'no, just sorry', then I don't know what got into [Richarlison].

»He was supposed to apologize to the group and to [Conte], right? Then he said 'ah, I think I need more minutes [of game time]'. I think he understood it that the guy asked if he had anything, something to talk about, then he started saying that the formation we played in was (swears). He said a couple of things."

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