If you’re not with us – you’re against us. That’s how Brighton’s coach Roberto De Zerbi sees the current situation involving the still-Seagull Leandro Trossard and his mooted transfer to Tottenham Hotspur. The Italian has decided to banish the forward from his squad because he didn’t like how Trossard was acting.❌ Roberto De Zerbi reveals Leandro Trossard left a training session without saying anything in a very honest answer about his strained relationship with the player pic.twitter.com/2UCEqtfuPo— Football Daily (@footballdaily) January 13, 2023 De Zerbi questioned Trossard’s attitude, claiming the forward left a training session last week without his prior permission. Trossard has struggled for form since returning from the 2022 World Cup with Belgium. The 28-year-old was left on the bench for the club’s most recent Premier League match, a 4-1 victory at Everton, and was not included in Saturday’s 5-1 FA Cup win against Middlesbrough.Leandro isn’t on the list of players to face Liverpool on Saturday. De Zerbi put his reasons on the record.”Leandro knows very well my opinion. In the last session before the Middlesbrough game, when he understood he wasn’t playing, he left the session without telling me anything. That isn’t good. On Monday, I spoke with him and explained I don’t like this attitude.”##NAJAVA_MECA_6945141##De Zerbi added that he does “not know” what Trossard’s “problem” is and urged him to work hard to regain his place in the squad.”We are not a big team like Real Madrid or Barcelona, we are Brighton, and Trossard has to work like the other players.”Brighton has an option to extend Trossard’s existing contract, which runs out at the end of June, by another year. According to reports in Belgium, the 28-year-old has persistently rejected offers of a new deal and is angling for a move to Tottenham.
