- Roman reveals Spurs shock
Tottenham Hotspur striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has revealed his shock at the intensity of training sessions at his new club.
The 26-year-old Russia international joined the north London club in a £13.8million deal on transfer deadline day and has endured a difficult start to life in England with a side struggling at the foot of the table.
The former Spartak Moscow striker has made two appearances in which he has failed to make any real impact and Pavlyuchenko has spoken of his surprise at the work he has been required to put in during training sessions.
"In England they have a different system of training," he told Russian media.
"Right now the games are on Wednesday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday. The training is like this - those who played get to recover and the rest do light training with the ball. It's not that tough.
"But when there is a week's gap between games, training is serious. I barely survived it when I'd just arrived.
"I looked at my watch and saw that the training session had gone on for exactly two hours! Then another half-an-hour in the gym. Two-and-a-half hours. Can you imagine that?
"I trained like never in my life before. The weights started to get to me, and I stopped and said to the trainer, 'I can't do this'.
"That's how they work. I'm shocked. I thought it would be a lot easier."
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