‘I’m not sure’… Journalist says he’s heard something different about Djed Spence’s attitude now

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Djed Spence looks like he’s finished at Tottenham.

Spurs have sent the right-back out on loan to Genoa, and he’s not expected to return as the Italian club hold a rather cheap option to buy.

Just 18 months after arriving in a £20m move from Middlesbrough, Spence is on the scrapheap at Spurs, so where did it all go wrong?

Well, it has been suggested that Spence has an attitude problem, but speaking on The Spurs Chat Podcast, George Sessions has shared a slightly different story.

Sessions says that Spence’s issue wasn’t his attitude, it was more an issue in terms of professionalism, claiming that the right-back never seemed willing to put in that extra 1% to get the marginal gains in the same way someone like Harry Kane would.

Spence attitude issue is more about professionalism

Sessions shared what he knows about Spence.

“The bad attitude, I’m not sure I’d categorise it as that, I’m not sure that’s fair. It’s the professionalism you want, you think of an ultra professional and you think of Harry Kane, he was unbelievable from the smallest to the biggest detail, not everyone is like that, you want a young player to be more like that than less like that, but Djed probably falls into that second category where it’s those small margins he’s not doing enough of,” Sessions said.

“I’m not going to sit here and say I’ve heard he has a bad attitude, but I would say there are small things he needs to improve, timekeeping is one and taking on instructions is another but that’s linked to his time under Antonio and his instructions were specific and regimented. He just has to do the other work if he wants to make the most of his potential.”

Needs work

Whether you want to call it an attitude problem or a professionalism problem, one thing is for sure, Spence needs to work on how he conducts himself off the pitch.

This is a young man with bags of potential, but if he’s not going to put absolutely everything he has into reaching that potential, he’ll end up wasting his career.

This move to Spurs should’ve been the launching pad into the stratosphere for Spence, but instead, he’s only gone downhill over the past 18 months.

Let’s hope Spence can get his career back on track with this loan move to Italy.