Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou fired a tetchy response in an interview with BBC and threatened to stop answering questions following their 6-3 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday.
The Australian had been coping with several absentees in defence, with goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, captain Cristian Romero and centre-back Micky van de Ven all out of the starting XI.
Instead, 18-year-old Archie Gray was asked to start at the heart of the defence again alongside Radu Dragusin.
And the pair struggled to contain the threat of Liverpool’s devastating front four as Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah helped themselves to a brace apiece.
When asked about if he blamed Spurs’ leaky defence on the players out injured, the 59-year-old made it clear he wouldn’t entertain such ‘obvious’ questions and even threatened to stop answering them altogether.
“I’m just going to stop answering these questions,” Postecoglou said to BBC Sport. “If people can’t see the obvious I‘m not going to point it out. Make of it what you want, yes we’re conceding goals.
“If you want to discount the fact we’re missing a goalkeeper, two centre-backs and left-back and that hasn’t coincided with what we’re doing… I don’t know what to say anymore.
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