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My team has been weakened – Antonio Conte
<h4><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tottenham Hotspur boss Antonio Conte has criticized the club&#8217;s January transfer activity, claiming that his team has been &#8216;weakened.&#8217;</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tanguy Ndombele was transferred back to Lyon during the January transfer window, while Giovani Lo Celso and Bryan Gil joined Valencia and Villarreal, respectively.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dele Alli joined Premier League rivals Everton, while Jack Clarke joined Sunderland on loan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tottenham, on the other hand, signed Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski from Juventus, two players who had underperformed at the Serie A giants.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Antonio Conte told Sky Sport Italia ahead of Tottenham&#8217;s Premier League match against Manchester City on Saturday, &#8220;Rather than strengthening the squad, we on paper diminished it.&#8221; Tottenham is looking for young players who can develop and progress, not guys who are ready, therefore Bentancur and Kulusevski are good prospects. That is the problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&#8220;This is the club&#8217;s vision and philosophy.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“It’s inevitable that if you want to grow quicker and if you want to be competitive more quickly, you need players with a lot of experience, because they also raise the experience level of the team as a whole.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tottenham presently sits in eighth place in the Premier League rankings, seven points behind the Champions League places.</span></p>