Every word Ange Postecoglou said on the area Spurs can improve, Sessegnon, Bissouma and injuries

How much of a motivation is it to go into the weekend five points clear? When you came into the job did you feel that you could be in this position so early?

First part of your question, it doesn't really add any significance because whatever happens Friday night there's still a full round of Premier League fixtures to be played and nothing of any real significance comes of that.

I don't go into a job not believing I can't make an impact. That's my role. Like I said a few times, my measure of that is not really having some predetermined timeframe of when that happens or it happens. It's just trying to focus on putting the things in place that are important for what we're trying to build. Along the way the progress comes at various times and at different sort of trajectories.

We're in a good space at the moment but again we've still got plenty of work to do to make sure what we do now is sustainable. That's the main thing. It's not about making a short-term impact, it's about building something which hopefully brings sustained opportunities of success for the club.

In my experience managers don't like to talk about a title push in October/November time. Given your experience of winning leagues, what are you saying to players in October/November?

There is a real good reason no manager will talk about winning a title in October or November because we know there's a long way to go. We don't sort of talk in those terms with the players. My main information flow is about how can we keep improving, how can we tackle the challenge of being in the most competitive league in the world on a weekly basis. That's the real challenge for us.

Particularly at our stage of development is to understand that irrespective of what is happening