Pedro Porro has told A Bola that he’s adapting at Tottenham Hotspur after joining the Premier League side from Sporting in the winter market.
Spurs chased the right wing-back for most of the January window before sealing the deal on January 31st.
When asked about his new life at Tottenham, he said: “The first few weeks were complicated, I didn’t know the city or the club, I knew a few words of English and it was lucky that Conte is Italian and that helped me to understand him.
“But, little by little, I’m integrating, getting to know my teammates better and mastering the language more. I prefer not to talk about the club, I’m still at the beginning and I don’t want anything I say to be misinterpreted.”
The Spain international made his Tottenham debut in their 4-1 defeat to Leicester City last month. After the tie, former Spurs manager Tim Sherwood was critical of the 23-year-old and said he was “so bad” against the Foxes. Porro has responded to Sherwood’s remarks.
“I think the person who did it [Sherwood] was too hard on me, he didn’t know me. I had just arrived and in the time I was on the field there was little else I could do. I hope that one day that person recognises that he was unfair and that he was wrong in this way,” Porro explained.
The right wing-back’s former club, Sporting, overcame Arsenal in the Europa League. Porro has revealed he wasn’t allowed to watch the tie from the Emirates.
“I couldn’t go to the stadium because I wasn’t allowed to leave the house and I had to watch it on television. I lived the game as one more player on the team and with the same spirit as someone on the field with those who, until recently, had been my teammates,” he said.
“What they did was very similar to the best Sporting, it was excellent, but at the same time, like Rúben Amorim, I was also upset that we didn’t do throughout the season what we saw in London. Perhaps many times we have relaxed more than what is allowed.”
Porro has made seven appearances for Tottenham in all competitions and has already scored a goal and registered an assist in the process. He is likely to feature regularly for the north London club this season after Emerson Royal suffered an injury setback.
