Tottenham outcast Richarlison sends pointed message hours after Spurs’ 3-2 home defeat to Aston Villa in London

RICHARLISON’S latest comments have introduced the latest chapter of his Tottenham spat. Spurs succumbed to a gut wrenching 3-2 home defeat, despite netting their first goals of the season. Richarlison’s latest comments have introduced the latest chapter of his Tottenham spat Credit: PA Boss Roberto De Zerbi has omitted the Brazil star from the first-team squad Credit: Getty The 29-year-old shared a snap on his Instagram story Credit: http://www.instagram.com/richarlison/ Richarlison wowed fans at the speed he is hitting behind the scenes Credit: http://www.instagram.com/richarlison/ The Brazilian star was set to depart from N17 this summer, but a move never came to fruition. And once Richarlison was left out of Roberto De Zerbi’s first-team squad – he was stranded. Sign up for the Football newsletter Thank you! On Saturday, the 29-year-old took to Instagram to share a pic of him training outdoors under a blue sky. He captioned it: “The focus remains.” And a second clip followed of him doing sprint drills, captioned “35.4km/h – I broke my record.” The snaps may ruffle some feathers at Spurs, who are 19th in the table, having only secured points via two goalless draws this season. Richarlison’s last appearance came in their 3-0 defeat at Brentford in their first game of the new Premier League campaign. The ace was subbed off in the 66th minute for Dominic Solanke with the Lilywhites already three down. Most read in Sport BEST FREE BETS AND BETTING SIGN UP OFFERS It has been a tricky couple weeks for Richarlison too, who missed out on a chance to move to Vasco da Gama after a deadline day transfer to Everton also flopped. And Spurs’ top goal-scorer last season (11) was left out of the squad once again by the Italian boss for their trip to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup. On Tuesday, Richarlison shared a screenshot of De Zerbi’s comment confirming that the ace “will NOT play even if he’s available” – not even in Carabao games. The snap was captioned “Why?” alongside a sad tearful emoji. The star took to Stories once again as he continues to look for an escape from exileCredit: instagram @richarlison Richarlison joined the Spurs set-up in 2022 in a £60million move from Everton. On Monday, De Zerbi said: “At the start of this season, I spoke to him (Richarlison) many times to convince him to stay and he didn’t want to. “I can’t go every day to pray for him to stay. “What I have done at the beginning of this season has been to speak with him and to propose an extension of the contract. “If he said, ‘no thank you,’ I finished my job. “I know what happened in the last 45 days. It’s not right if I explained. “It’s not my behaviour. The relationship, the problem is between the player and the club.” Comment now