Tottenham boss Redknapp: Assou-Ekotto can be hard work

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp admits fullback Benoit Assou-Ekotto can be "hard work".

After victory at Stoke City, Assou-Ekotto could be seen walking to the away dressing room all on his own - this came after a bust-up with teammate Vedran Corluka.

Redknapp said: "Charlie (Corluka) was upset that he didn’t come back and do his job. Benoit is a strange boy. He’s a bit highly strung and hardly speaks English. If you say something to him he’s hard work. He hasn’t improved his English in the couple of years he’s been here."

Asked why the player had walked off on his own, Redknapp replied: "He didn’t know the result! He probably thought we’d drawn.

"He’ll turn up Wednesday and play great, but he won’t know we’re playing Fulham until someone tells him. That’s how he is. He’s unreal. He walks off and he’s thinking about the music he’s going to play when he puts his headphones on."