Tottenham star Eric Dier gives honest view on Richarlison outburst at Antonio Conte

Tottenham defender Eric Dier has insisted that it is ‘time to move on’ from Richarlison’s outburst at Antonio Conte with the issue now ‘solved’ internally. The forward had described the club’s season as ‘s***’ as he hit out at the Italian for dropping him to the bench for the encounters with Wolves and AC Milan.

Richarlison’s first season in north London has not gone as he would have hoped so far as repeated injuries have curtailed him from gaining any kind of momentum. He is yet to find the net in the Premier League, scoring just twice for the club with both goals coming against Marseille in the Champions League.

The Brazilian finally earned himself a sustained run in the first team starting in the wins over West Ham and Chelsea as well as the FA Cup defeat to Sheffield United. However, he returned to the bench for the games against Wolves and Milan and he was not afraid to make his frustrations clear.

“It was going well in a good sequence with two wins against West Ham and Chelsea,” he said following the Milan game when asked about being sent back to the sidelines. “Suddenly, he put me on the bench against Wolverhampton and put me on for five minutes. I asked why? They didn’t tell me anything.

“This season, excuse the word, it’s been s***, because I don’t have minutes, I suffered a little with the injury. But, when I enter the field, I give my life. I came from two games well, I think that’s it, I think I should have played and I don’t have to cry about it.”

Yet, rather than punish Richarlison by leaving him out the side for the weekend’s encounter with Nottingham Forest, Conte gave him a place in the starting lineup in place of Dejan Kulusevski. He impressed during his run out, winning the penalty for Harry Kane’s second and laying on the assist for Son Heung-min’s clincher while he also missed out on his elusive Premier League goal following a tight offside call.

Now Dier has confirmed that the issue of Richarlison’s post-Milan comments has been solved after the players and staff sorted the matter internally.

“Yes, of course, I think we solved it between us. And that is among us,” Dier told ESPN Brazil. “I think from the moment we solved it, we started saying ‘we will not continue to talk about it, or continue to punish him’.

“It happened, we solved between us and that’s it. Now is time to move on. I think he made a great game today. It’s his quality of him, he plays with the heart, lives with the heart. And sometimes he has to be able to control it in the best way off the field.”

Tottenham face Southampton in their next Premier League encounter and Richarlison will hope he has done enough to keep his place in the team long-term.

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