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Tottenham is set for a battle against previous manager Jose Mourinho this late spring subsequent to declaring a pre-season well disposed with Roma in Israel on July 30.
Prods will confront the recently delegated Europa Conference League champions in Haifa's 30,780-limit Sammy Ofer Stadium in their last agreeable before the new season.
Mourinho was sacked by Spurs following 17 months in charge last April, six days before their Carabao Cup final against Manchester City and they are the only one of his last eight clubs where he neglected to win flatware.
He has since pointed various digs at Spurs executive Daniel Levy, saying before Roma's Conference League semi-last against Leicester: "A semi-final gives you the option to play the final - on the off chance that you are not sacked before the last."
There is likewise a lot of bad blood between Mourinho and flow Spurs supervisor Antonio Conte, who was additionally gone before by oneself broadcasted 'Exceptional One' at Chelsea and Inter Milan.
The pair conflicted over and again while Conte was at Stamford Bridge and Mourinho was responsible for Manchester United.
In a severe conflict of words enduring over a year, Mourinho derived that Conte was a "comedian" and referred to the Italian' going bald and noteworthy match-fixing suspension.
Conte blamed Mourinho for having feeble dementia (a Chelsea representative later guaranteed he had intended to say "amnesia") and portrayed him as "a little man".
"In the past, he was a little man, by and large, he's a little man in the present, and without a doubt, he will be a little man from now on. I think of him as a little man and I think of him as a man with an exceptionally low profile," Conte said in January 2018, not long from now before the pair settled on some kind of peace agreement.
Tottenham and Roma have made a propensity for playing in pre-season, having recently met in the summers of 2008, 2017, and 2018.
It will be the club's seventh visit to Israel, with the last coming in the UEFA Cup against Hapoel Tel Aviv in November 2007.
Tottenham will play two games in mid-July as a component of their pre-season visit through South Korea and face Rangers at Ibrox on July 23.
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