Postecoglou delighted with Tottenham's 5-2 Burnley win
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00:00 Is that the kind of football you wanted to bring to Tottenham Oxford?
00:10 Yeah, look, it was good today for sure. Obviously, going goal down, again, you get tested and
00:16 particularly after midweek and you're looking for what sort of reaction the lads have. I
00:22 thought they were outstanding and just staying really calm, cleared and playing our football
00:26 and we grew into the game. Once we got the grips with it, I thought we were really dominant
00:32 in just about every area and maybe a little bit wasteful in the first half and the front
00:37 third but then second half we got really clinical and I can't praise the players highly enough
00:44 in the way that they navigated the challenges we had today.
00:48 A lot of people outside the club thought you might go for a number nine in the window.
00:58 You were quite clear that probably wasn't so. Is Son's performance today exactly why
00:59 you didn't think?
01:00 It's not exactly why but it's one of the reasons. I've got a picture in my head about what I
01:05 want the team to look like and again, I keep saying we're still at the beginning of it.
01:12 We're still building. There's still a lot to be done. It's about putting all the pieces
01:19 together and at the same time not neglecting what's right in front of you. There's some
01:25 really good footballers at this club and I think they have the ability to play in the
01:31 way that this team needs to set up. Sonny, whether he's playing central or wide, he's
01:41 got all the characteristics that he can play in any system but the way we want to play
01:46 is ideal.
01:47 Why did you want to bring in Brennan Johnson?
01:53 Just another exciting young player. He's a real threat in the front third. He's a bit
01:59 different to what we've already got. Like I said, he's young, he's ambitious. It's no
02:03 secret that that's been the model for me. Not just here, I've done it wherever I've
02:09 gone. I think it's just about as much the person you bring in as the footballer. Looking
02:16 at him, he's going to fit in really well with this group because he's really ambitious,
02:21 he's hungry, he wants to take his game to another level. Like I said, the technical
02:27 and the physical attributes he has, I think he'll fit in really well with us.
02:30 You wanted in the window and you couldn't get it. I know you wanted other sets back
02:37 instead of one.
02:38 No, when you go through these things, you always understand that there's so many moving
02:46 parts that I think really you come out of it with an ideal picture. But it doesn't mean
02:51 it's not a picture that can still work. We've still done a fair bit in a short space of
02:58 time. I think I said yesterday, you look at the team we've got now, we've virtually changed
03:05 half the starting line-up, the way we play, the way we train. Totally new coaching staff,
03:11 training. There was never going to be one window, this rebuild. Where we sit at the
03:18 moment, I'm really happy with the players we've brought in.
03:21 James Maddison gets proud a lot, he gets a bit sick from the crowd, but he doesn't go
03:28 hiding that he always, always wants the ball. Is that a real strength of his that he thrives
03:34 on that situation?
03:36 Yes, look, he's very... I mean, obviously I've only got to know him recently as a person,
03:43 but he's a pretty strong, resilient guy, mentally strong. He likes, I think, not to be targeted,
03:52 but he likes, he wants the ball. He wants it in all situations. He has that quality.
03:57 I thought today was a real testament to Sonny Madders and Romero, they all scored, but those
04:05 three who are kind of thrust into leadership positions, the way they've embraced that responsibility
04:11 not just with words but with actions, and not just on game day, on a daily basis. I
04:17 think that's as encouraging for me as anything, because as fantastic players they are individually,
04:26 they're really bought into that team ethic, and Madders is one of those. He's so creative,
04:32 and today he showed how clinical he was in front of goal. But just his preparedness to
04:37 work hard for the team, I think, is a great example.
04:41 Okay, thank you.
04:42 Thank you.
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