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00:00Hi Thomas. Back to Jett. When Thomas Tuchel took over, he reached out to about 50 players.
00:06Jett said he wasn't one of them when we spoke to him last season.
00:12I just wondered, in your mind, from watching from afar and obviously this season, what do you think has changed?
00:18And have you actually spoken to Thomas Tuchel in the league up to Jett's support?
00:22I've spoken to Tuchel, but not about Jett actually, so that was before.
00:28I think, again, I think Justin gives such a top example of, in football it goes so quick.
00:38And we need to remind ourselves about it and the players need to remind themselves about it sometimes.
00:42Especially when now the team, clearly a coach was talking about the 12 players I need to manage,
00:47that's not in the team, okay, I need to explain to them, let him go quick.
00:51But with his performances, suddenly he's just in the picture because he is athletic.
00:57Now I'm guessing, I don't know, I've spoken to Tuchel about this.
01:00Athletic, quick, 1-1 defensively, exceptionally good.
01:06Look at the performances he's done against PSG and also Burnley and City.
01:11Top wingers he's taking out.
01:13And when he's bombarding forward, it's very difficult to catch him.
01:17And he's, you know, just a great type.
01:21He can play both sides, left and right.
01:23So, yeah, very good player.
01:26Very good player.
01:27Yeah.
01:28I erased that, you know, all games we lose, I can't remember them.
01:33Well, I just wondered, well, if you can't remember, then fair enough, but that day, I mean,
01:43most people were never out of the way watching how well he played.
01:46It really did sort of sum up how far he'd come.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Did you notice any of your opposites as you made that day?
01:53I definitely noticed that it was difficult for Brian on the day to go past him.
02:02But now he's good yet.
02:03I actually followed him, you know, since the Championship days when Brentford was already on the radar there back then.
02:11And obviously it's been a fantastic start, a team that's so obviously well put together,
02:17but just fighting for everything.
02:19Forgive my language, before you famously talked about the New Zealand no-dicket policy.
02:25I just wondered what in your mind constitutes a dickhead and how do you sort of fight against it?
02:33Fair play.
02:36I actually, I actually, I actually don't think there's any people that is a dickhead.
02:47I think then you're probably a psychopath if you are.
02:50I think most people are just not being guided well enough or got the help they need.
02:58And hopefully the most people that are getting into a good group and they can see,
03:02okay, this is actually how we should behave.
03:04And a lot of them need to get guided.
03:07Then I would say there's probably a little bit with the ego.
03:10There's always the ego who get in the way for all of us.
03:15And it's about maybe being guided around that, I think is a key thing.
03:20And then I think also it's human nature.
03:22It's back in history, history, history.
03:24You want to be part of a clan.
03:26We want to be part of something.
03:28And you feel you're accepting a part of something.
03:30You're like willing to do more.
03:32So if you get into a good environment, good culture, you feel, oh, I'm part of something.
03:36Most of the guys that maybe are borderline, they catch big egos.
03:41Maybe we get around them and they get guided in the right way.
03:44And the best coaches is the ones where it's not me telling it all the time,
03:48but it's the players who's doing it in.
03:50So just as a follow-up, with that in mind, when it comes to bringing anyone into the club,
03:55or whatever it might be, do you not really look at their sort of,
03:58if there's any sort of character references in the past?
04:00Is it more when you actually deal with the player up front?
04:03That's when you really can tell what they're up front?
04:05Yeah, but we take massive references.
04:07Massive, big on it.
04:09On any players done in the past, we'll do it the same.
04:11And of course, there are some players you are taking in that is like,
04:15okay, he's a 10 out of 10. Perfect.
04:17Others are not 10 out of 10.
04:19But they can't be too low, of course.
04:23But then you think, okay, I think with our culture, it'll work anyway.
04:31Can you talk a little bit to us about building a squad for modern football,
04:37for Champions League campaign?
04:39When you look at, for example, your front unit, whatever,
04:42whatever you classify, do you want two of each?
04:45Is variety more important than anything?
04:50Yeah, I think the perfect picture,
04:55the front is not that perfect a lot of times in football or in clubs,
05:00in my opinion, is that you have 20 plus three players.
05:04That's a perfect, two in each position.
05:07All of them are robust.
05:11Of course, you can get injuries.
05:13And then you need, you probably don't need 20 top players,
05:21because they also need that balance of everyone can get enough minutes.
05:25So it feeds their ego and where they are in their stages career and everything.
05:29So that's the perfect scenario.
05:33It's not that often you get that.
05:35When you look at Tottenham's injury record last season, does that come into your planning?
05:43Or do you have to almost forget about it and say you can't easily?
05:47No, that's 100% of course we come into the planning.
05:51We had too many injuries last year, so we can't get around that.
05:57And hopefully, with some of the processes we set in place, or put in place, that can help.
06:05But it also, with that in mind, of course, we need to be aware that it's a long season.
06:09And as I said from the beginning, hopefully, we're going to play 60 plus games.
06:13So that we need to be good enough on building the players, good enough in doing the rotation at the right time,
06:23which is an art and very difficult.
06:27And be good enough to have the right amount of players.
06:31Because you can't have too many.
06:33Because that's also not good.
06:35So on that, what can I ask about central defence then you've got?
06:40Are you in the market for another one?
06:43Is Voskovic gone to Hamburg and why?
06:48And who are your options in there when you talked about injuries?
06:56What's Miki's situation?
06:57Is he going to blow through every game or is he going to be whatever you have to?
07:01I think Voskovic, there's definitely something on that.
07:08That he maybe will not be in the club this summer.
07:18We have right now three centre-backs, Miki, Romeo, Tanso.
07:24And Ben can play there if necessary.
07:28We have Kota, a young central defender we got this summer.
07:34That is training with the team, running now, training with the team next week.
07:39Or training with the ball, there's not many left behind.
07:43And then Dragos has come back in a couple of months.
07:51So I think that should be enough.
07:53Not necessarily, no.
07:57Not necessarily, no.
07:58Not necessarily, no.
07:59Not necessarily, no, yeah.
08:01Matt?
08:02Hi.
08:03Just to ask about the striker situation.
08:04Obviously, Richarsen is in such good form.
08:06Is there anything Solange you can do at the moment more to get into the team?
08:11Or has Richarsen sort of made an impossible job?
08:14I think it's all about performances.
08:17Richie has been fantastic in the pre-season.
08:22Played well, scoring goals.
08:25If you're playing well and scoring goals, you keep your shirt.
08:28It's difficult to put him out of the team and I have no interest in doing that.
08:32On the flip side, I think Dom is a very good striker.
08:34I think Dominic has been, in my opinion, good for Tottenham.
08:39I know he had the injury and then had to come back and maybe he didn't show his size level
08:44in the end of last season.
08:45But I think he's two good strikers.
08:47We need two good strikers.
08:48We just said we're going to play 60 games and with that we need both.
08:54I think that's very far away right now.
09:09I think he knows that he's a good striker.
09:14He knows that I like him.
09:16He knows there's competition.
09:18Let's say he was on the team and he performed and Richie was pushing.
09:25It's the same for both of them.
09:27Can I ask one about the conversations you have with players when the clubs are looking
09:31to sign them?
09:32You spoke last week of the only one players here who want to be here.
09:35Maybe there can be news today that clubs signed someone who was also strongly linked
09:39with other clubs.
09:40But in general, how do you convince yourself that a player does want to be here?
09:44When you're speaking to them?
09:47I think when I speak to them, I'm pretty direct and honest in how I see the player.
09:53Of course, I want to sell the Tottenham project.
09:57Of course, but I'm also direct in terms of how I see their role and what we hopefully
10:03can make them to become.
10:05But also that it will be a fantastic journey, but also can be ups and downs in that journey.
10:10And there's bits I need to work on.
10:12And we go into that.
10:16Then I can say sign off.
10:18I would like the player, but the player also need to sign off to the project and the role.
10:24Jacob?
10:25Thomas, you said before about players having an ego.
10:30Presumably, though, there's a good type of ego and a bad type of ego.
10:35They need to have that on the pitch, though.
10:37100%.
10:38You know, they need to.
10:39We all have the ego.
10:40We can't live without the ego.
10:41We, you know, none of us would have been in this room, probably being in the position
10:46you guys are.
10:47I am Anthony.
10:48We don't have an ego that can push us a bit.
10:50So I think that's hugely important.
10:53But I think it's important that it's not controlling you in many ways.
10:59And I always use that attitude as confident but humble.
11:02So you need to be extremely confident in your own abilities, but also humble about the team,
11:07humble about your role, humble about what you need to do.
11:10Humble about is every single day you need to put the hard work in.
11:14But of course, when you step on the pitch, when I step in here, you know, we need to look
11:19confident, but I'm not humble to do all the hard work.
11:23Forget it.
11:24You need a player who doesn't come across as having that kind of humble opportunity.
11:29Are you and me as well?
11:30Or do you think they'd like to get in there and work out what's going on?
11:36I've met a few over the years.
11:43I think it's important to try to understand the player.
11:47I think it's so easy to say, oh, he doesn't have enough or he has too much.
11:52It's the easiest way.
11:55It's my job together with the coaches to maximise their potential.
11:59To maximise their potential, I need to get to know them and try to get into them.
12:04Finish with John, please.
12:05What do you think you could give us an overview of this transfer window compared with the ones
12:11you've had at Brentford?
12:13Has it been a bigger pool because of the financial, a bigger financial pool?
12:19Was it a smaller pool because you're looking specifically for Champions League?
12:25How many numbers have changed?
12:28I would say, if any, a smaller pool, I would say.
12:33But probably similar with just a couple of levels above in terms of what you're looking for.
12:40But when you're looking for better players, there's not that many.
12:45And we all want the best and the perfect one, that perfect number 10 I described before.
12:50There are very few of them out there, if any.
12:53So when you do that, there's always some doubts in something.
12:56Of course there is.
12:59But it's been a good learning.
13:02It's the same processes, but of course I need to get to know how people work here
13:10and how the processes are.
13:11So that means there is.
13:12There's been more work this summer than there's been the other years in Brentford.
13:18Except the first couple of years, of course.
13:22So, which is natural.
13:24It seems that other clubs have been involved more and a bit more like
13:28you've got to fend up the players with what it's right or what it's convinced by.
13:33Say again.
13:34You've got to fend up the club itself, you've got to find other clubs
13:38fighting for the same group of players.
13:40Yeah.
13:41But to be fair, I think it was the same in Brentford, just on a different level.
13:44We just competed against other clubs, also wanted a player.
13:46So it's the same.
13:48There's just a few more of you guys in here asking questions
13:52and a few more digging out stories that's maybe there, maybe not there.
13:55But that's the biggest difference.
13:57Is it a stressful period for Mojo?
14:00My preferred thing is, of course, just to coach the players, develop them, train on the pitch,
14:11play the matches, ups and downs.
14:13This is part of it.
14:17So I'm like quite problematic.
14:19I know I need to do it.
14:20And I also want good players in and you also.
14:22So it's fine, but I prefer the other bit.
14:24Okay.
14:25Thank you very much.
14:26Thank you, guys.
14:29Yeah.
14:30Thank you guys.
14:32See you guys.
14:33Take care.
14:34See you.
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