Ange Postecoglou admits he doesn’t solely take a look at a participant’s soccer capability when recruiting for his squad.
Tottenham have introduced in various new faces this summer time, together with 18-year-olds Archie Grey and Lucas Bergvall, in addition to Dominic Solanke, Wilson Odobert and Min-hyuk Yang.
And a few could also be in line to make their aggressive debuts when Spurs journey to Leicester for Monday Evening Soccer.
However the Australian boss says he seems into extra than simply the abilities of the folks he’s making an attempt to signal.
Talking forward of the Foxes conflict, he mentioned: “It’s an essential a part of the method and I feel it comes again to what I’ve usually mentioned – a part of recruiting is knowing you’re not recruiting footballers, you’re recruiting folks.
“What sort of individual are they? Why do they need to come to Tottenham? Are they formidable? Have they got an open thoughts? Are they ready to tackle the big problem of making one thing particular on the membership that has that success?
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“All these sorts of issues, and hopefully the stuff that they’ve already recognized in order that after they come right here they really feel prefer it’s the correct place for them.
“Hopefully they stroll right into a dressing room of like-minded people who all have that form of mindset. That helps them then visualise what we’re making an attempt to construct.
“It’s most likely a neater course of for guys, new gamers coming on this yr as a result of they stroll right into a dressing room and the blokes may have absolute readability and provides them absolute readability of what they’re all making an attempt to do.
“Whereas final yr it was extra about me making an attempt to create that surroundings, me making an attempt to color these footage to everybody, not simply the gamers and workers, however everybody on the soccer membership. Hopefully this yr, for the blokes we’ve introduced in to this point, they stroll right into a dressing room they usually can really feel precisely what we’re making an attempt to do.”
Postecoglou has just lately suspended Yves Bissouma after the midfielder was caught inhaling unlawful laughing fuel on social media.
The pinnacle coach mentioned he can work his method again into the squad however emphasised that he solely desires folks with the correct angle and mentality enjoying for him.
Bissouma’s misdemeanour is a main instance of why Postecoglou likes to evaluate every new participant as an individual earlier than bringing them in.
