Andros Townsend has shot back at Jose Mourinho's suggestion that Dele Alli is a lazy trainer.
The latest season of Amazon's All of Nothing is released on Monday and features around Tottenham Hotspur's 2019/20 season.
Three episodes have already been released for the media to watch, with a lot of coverage focussing on Mourinho's arrival at Spurs.
Mourinho asserts that Alli is lazy when talking about his early impressions of players, revealing that he ignored Sir Alex Ferguson's advice to sign the midfielder when at Manchester United.
The manager explained: "Sir Alex Ferguson gave me only one piece of advice in two-and-a-half years, 'Buy Dele Alli, that guy with that mentality, the way he plays, the aggression in his mind, that guy is a Manchester United player, buy that guy'.
"He has an eye for players and he told me, 'buy that player' but he is not a good trainer. We have to find the right motivation for the guy."
Yet Townsend says that, during his time at Spurs, he never noticed Alli to 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."
