Dejan Kulusevski has revealed that Antonio Conte does not want him to have so much fun and says the Tottenham head coach is turning him into a killer on the pitch.
Kulusevski impressed again as Harry Kane's header decided Saturday's 1-0 win over Wolves and continued Spurs' unbeaten start to the season.
The Swede is just 22 but has been a revelation since joining Tottenham in January, and believes he can get even better.
"I can attack the goal more for sure," Kulusevski told Standard Sport. "Sometimes I'm just in a different world when I play. I feel so comfortable sometimes, so I just play and have fun. But he [Conte] doesn't want me to have fun. He wants me to kill the opponent in a sporting way.
"I feel very good. I think I can do better but the important thing is always to be humble, to work harder because we have a goal this season and I think we can do it.
"For sure it's easier with a pre-season," he added. "You have more time to adapt. Last season you came into the game and you had one chance. If you played bad you did not play again. It was more pressure. Now I feel much better, a better start and physically in better form."
Kane scored from a corner for the second game running against Wolves, heading home from Ivan Perisic's near-post flick-on, having also met the Croatian's corner in stoppage time of the 2-2 draw at Chelsea the previous weekend.
Kulusevski joked that Spurs' new set-piece coach Gianni Vio has already earned a pay rise after joining Conte's staff over the summer, bring with him a playbook reportedly containing more than 4,800 set-piece routines.
"I just told [Vio] three times that we have to give him more money. He has to get a pay rise for sure! Shout out to him," Kulusevski added. "He's very important.
"He makes a difference, like you can see. At the end of the day, we won on a set-piece so we have to keep working on that. It's not the funnest thing in the world but it makes results. It helps a lot. We have to keep listening to him and do what he says.
"I don't remember that we scored so many [from set-pieces] last season but it's very important. Now we have to get better. Every time we get a set-piece we have to believe we can score."
Spurs scored just eight League goals from dead-ball situations last season -13 fewer than league-best Manchester City - and they also struggled to defend corners and free-kicks.
