Joleon Lescott says Djed Spence is completely misunderstood as everyone thinks he doesn’t love football but actually he loves the game very much and so does his whole family Lescott knows Spence well from coaching with the England U21 team alongside Lee Carsley Spence has been one of Tottenham’s best performers recently and was unlucky to miss out on an England call-up this week Lescott made these comments on
Rio Ferdinand’s Podcast where Spence will be a future guest Ferdinand asked why Spence was misunderstood and Lescott explained that people think Spence doesn’t love football but this isn’t true people who know Spence say he’s actually just introverted and aloof which gets mistaken for not caring or having attitude problems Jay Harris says people close to Spence think he is often misinterpreted as a person Harris explained that
Spence’s time in Italy with Genoa was a powerful experience for him after things didn’t work out at Leeds because of a knee injury that sidelined him for almost three months Spence went from barely playing in the Championship to playing at San Siro twice with Genoa and against
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Juventus away this made him realize he needed to knuckle down if he wanted a career at the highest level Neil Warnock had problems with Spence at Middlesbrough before his £20 million move to Tottenham but now Spence appears to be on the right track being introverted can sometimes rub people the wrong way in pressured environments like football dressing rooms but Spence is just a young man who wants to play football and do well
Ange Postecoglou seems to understand Spence both as a person and as a player which is helping both Spurs and Spence himself Spence has been earning lots of praise for his performances for Tottenham lately the podcast discussion shows that public perception of players can be very different from reality and sometimes quiet or reserved personalities get misinterpreted as having attitude problems in professional sports.
