In his autobiography, Hugo Lloris recounts how a luxury watch gifted by Tottenham to players, massively undermined the team ahead of the Champions League 2019 final.
Four days before the final the club’s chairman Daniel Levy gave each of the players a luxury aviator watch from the club.
When the players opened the fancy box to inspect the watch, engraved on the back was a damning prediction: “Champions League Finalist 2019”.
‘“Finalist.” Who does such a thing at a moment like this? I still haven’t got over it, and I’m not alone. If we’d won, he wouldn’t have asked for the watches back to have “Winner” engraved instead,’ Lloris writes.
“We could have avoided ever hearing again the complaint that Tottenham never won anything,” he adds.
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