Pedro Porro shrugs off Tim Sherwood criticism, ‘won’t get involved’ after Antonio Conte's Tottenham rant
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Updated 23/03/2023 at 10:52 GMT
Criticism launched at Pedro Porro from anyone, including former Tottenham Hotspur manager Tim Sherwood, won’t bother him, according to the Spanish full-back. In an interview during the international break, Porro said he always backs himself if given enough time and he declined to get involved in the debate surrounding manager Antonio Conte and his tirade against his players.
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Tottenham Hotspur full-back Pedro Porro has shrugged off criticism from the club’s former manager Tim Sherwood, saying that he wouldn’t be the first person “who had to then shut his mouth".
Sherwood launched into a wide-ranging criticism following Porro’s debut, saying that the Spaniard was “so bad it’s unbelievable".
But speaking to the Guardian it was clear that Porro didn’t seem bothered as he said that it was his first game and he would always back himself to rise to the top given time.
“It doesn’t annoy me, exactly," he said.
“You know, people will have their opinion, they’re going to say you played badly, that you’re no good or whatever. You try not to even notice, but it’s impossible. There’s always someone saying: ‘Did you see this?’
“You read what’s said about a player who has been at the club two days – two days – and that hits you because you think: ‘I’ve just got here’.
“I’m not a machine that goes like this and that’s it, I know everyone, I’m integrated. I really hope he keeps saying bad things about me that will make me stronger. But it’s true that it made an impression because I had been at a big club for so little time.
“Let me loose in a prison and I’ll end up owning the place. But it’s hard: it was only a week, I’d never played a minute at City, never played in England in my life.
"It’s a couple of days, I start against Leicester. What do you want? For me to score five and cut out 70 balls?! Anyone can have a bad day. From there, I just keep on: take English classes, get into the group, adapt.
For me, it makes no difference.
“I don’t know him. I don’t know what had happened for him to speak. People passed it on, saying he had spoken badly about me. But he won’t be the first who then had to shut his mouth.”
Unsurprisingly, Porro was also asked about the rant of his own manager, Antonio Conte, after the team’s 3-3 draw with Southampton just before the international break.
Porro claimed not to have heard Conte’s rant and was told about it by interviewer Sid Lowe.
“Well, that’s his opinion.” Porro told Lowe, before adding, “I’m not getting involved there. That’s not one for me.”
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