Andros Townsend has shot back at Jose Mourinho's suggestion that Dele Alli is a lazy trainer. The new Amazon Prime Video series All or Nothing followed Spurs for a season with cameras allowed all access, including fixed cameras in certain offices, including Mourinho’s. One conversation shown is the Portuguese’s first one-to-one meeting with Alli, having called the midfielder lazy in training. Townsend says that, during his time at Spurs, he never noticed Alli be a particularly bad trainer. Instead, the winger speculated that some poor form under Mauricio Pochettino may have sparked a slump on the training ground. "He was never a bad trainer when I was there," Townsend told talkSPORT. "I think back to when Mourinho joined and Dele Alli was going through a bad spell. He wasn’t playing particularly well. He was out of favour with Pochettino, so maybe he just lost that enthusiasm and love of the game a little bit and that spilt over into the start of the Jose Mourinho spell. I definitely didn’t see that during my spell with Dele."
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