Ange on his relationship with Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglu on his positive relationship with Brighton and Hove Albion boss Fabian Hurzeler Tottenham training ground, London, UK

Transcript

00:00Can you head to Brighton? I just wanted to ask you about Fabian Herzl, a 31-year-old, younger than most people in this room.

00:07What do you make of the job he's done at Brighton? How impressive has he been?

00:11Yeah, great. I mean, he's 31. It's crazy, but I think that's about the age I started, albeit at not this level.

00:22Yeah, really impressive.

00:25When he was coaching St Paul, he coached Jackson Irvine, who I had to Socceroos.

00:30He's a great player, but a fantastic person as well.

00:33He actually reached out to us and said, Fabian likes what you're doing, can he come pay a visit?

00:40He came and spent a day with us last year and he asked a hell of a lot of questions.

00:44I gave him too many answers, that's for sure, if I'd have known he'd be Brighton manager.

00:50You could tell he's just a real student of the game, wanted as much knowledge.

00:55He was already a senior manager and he got them promoted last year, so he was already doing a good job.

01:01You could tell when somebody's got that sort of curiosity.

01:04I think that's a key for all managers, especially young ones, is you've got to maintain that.

01:08It can get sucked out of you at times, because when you get into the battle,

01:14particularly at this level of dealing with one crisis or another,

01:18you can forget that it's that curiosity to always find out more information.

01:24I think if he maintains that, he'll be an outstanding manager.

01:28He's done well. It's probably a perfect fit for him, because I think Brighton are a fantastic club.

01:33They're careful about who they put in as manager.

01:37There's usually an alignment there, which I wonder sometimes with other clubs,

01:43whether they even think about that stuff. So he's in a great place.