Inside the mind of Ange Postecoglou - Flat tyres with Ferenc Puskas, rejection and making a mark

When Ange Postecoglou speaks you listen, yet it is the Australian who has entered the world of Tottenham Hotspur with his ears primed to take it all in.

Spurs wanted to change the entire ethos within the club after the recent years of disconnect with the fans. They were lacking in direction with so many managers in a short space of time who arrived with very different ideologies to each other and ways of playing.

Postecoglou was brought in from Celtic because of his ability to transform and rebuild clubs from within, something he has done on continents across the world at teams beset by a range of different issues, circumstances and problems.

Tottenham could be his biggest challenge yet, taking on a group of players left dizzy by the demands of four different head coaches in as many months and becoming the public face of a club that had frittered away a lot of the good will from the fanbase.

So did Postecoglou arrive and deliver grand positive speeches to anyone who would listen about the new Spurs he was going to create? Certainly not at first because it was more important for him to do the opposite.

«You listen a lot, don't do a lot of talking. That’s important. I don’t go around with allies because that’s not always healthy. That can just disguise a lot of things. If I’ve got a group who come with me, three assistant coaches, a conditioning coach and a goalkeeping coach maybe I’m sitting here thinking we’re having a good time because there’s all these allies but the problems are still there,» he said.

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«Whatever you walk into, the problems are there. The reason I’ve gone by myself is that I enjoy the early stage, understanding