Tottenham’s Aurier lashes out at media

Paris: Tottenham Hotspur new recruit Serge Aurier says he got a rough deal from the media during his often controversial time at Paris Saint-Germain.

The hugely talented Ivorian right-back joined Spurs for 23 million pounds ($29.6 million, 25 million euros) on transfer deadline day last week.

“I wasn’t thought highly enough of and I wasn’t respected,” said the 24-year-old whose deal was complicated by his two-month suspended prison sentence for assault on a police officer outside a Paris nightclub in May 2016. “The thing with the police was blown out of proportion by the European media,” Aurier told African football’s ruling body CAF.