Ange Postecoglou says the 'fog is lifting' over Tottenham before seeing pre-season plans disrupted by Leicester friendly being called off due to bad weather
No sooner had Ange Postecoglou claimed the 'fog is lifting' on his Tottenham rebuilding project than the heavens opened and another vital opportunity to assess his players vanished.
Spurs should have played Leicester in Bangkok on Sunday but the friendly was washed out by a torrential downpour which started an hour before kick-off and refused to relent at the Rajamangala National Stadium.
The two teams warmed up before returning to the dressing rooms where they waited for in the hope conditions might improve but, with large areas of standing water on the surface and no sign of an end to the rainstorm, there was little option but to call the game off, 40 minutes after what should have been kick off time.
For Postecoglou, who brought a large squad of 31 players to cast his eye over, it is a second setback to his pre-season plans after Roma pulled out of a friendly in Singapore on Wednesday. Jose Mourinho's team abandoned their summer tour and stayed in Italy claiming they had not been paid money owed up front for a game in South Korea.
Tottenham were Roma's collateral damage, hastily arranging a replacement fixture against local team Lion City Sailors, an exercise that may have some value but the new Spurs boss will return home from a tour covering nearly 20,000 miles with only one preparation game against elite opposition to show for it.
'I'm still in that stage where I haven't got a full picture of everything I need to have real clarity about what we need to do but in the 12/13 days I've been at the club, the fog is lifting,' said Postecoglou after losing 3-2 to West Ham in Perth, Australia.
'I can see more of what needs to be done. The West Ham game revealed some things that you can't see unless you play that first game.
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