Mauricio Pochettino slams Roberto Martinez in war of words over Jan Vertonghen announcement

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is angry at the way Roberto Martinez handled the assessment of Jan Vertonghen's injury and warned the Belgium national team about the way they conduct themselves. Martinez publicly discussed Vertonghen's hamstring injury before Spurs had a chance to release a statement. “We'll see. It was not a good injury," Pochettino said. “We're so disappointed with that. We'll see if it's six weeks or less. We hope as soon as possible it can be fixed but we cannot guess." "Before my press conference you knew about the Vertonghen situation because Roberto told the media in Belgium before us," he said. "But in the end, it's our player, our Tottenham player. Our Tottenham employee. We arrived here and we needed to explain. "It's difficult. They need to call us. If they call us, we are more than open to talk - and give our opinion. But if they don't call, our door is always open to receive (a call). "The players are here every day and in the end our job is day-by-day and for them, it's every month. "I don't want to create a problem but that is the normal behaviour - that the national team calls you. "Not that you call and say 'be careful with this player or that player'. It's like you don't want the player to go to the national team. "It's difficult to assess during the game because he didn't realise how it was and he only felt a big knock from the striker and he thought it was a dead leg."

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