Postecoglou has no doubt what's next for Tottenham after January transfer coups
Ange Postecoglou has already made Tottenham the surprise package of the season.
And now the Spurs boss is adamant they will only get better in the second half of the campaign as they set their sights on major silverware.
Tottenham signed Romania defender Radu Dragusin and former Chelsea forward Timo Werner this week to strengthen their squad and get business done early. But Postecoglou has had to overcome a crippling injury list, the loss of Harry Kane last summer and yet Tottenham fans are enjoying the rollercoaster ride under Big Ange.
They have become fun to watch again, they have upset all of the expectations and are firmly in the title race with Postecoglou insisting: You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Postecoglou said: “It does excite me. Look, that has to be the objective and the aim and we’ve got to take every opportunity we have to get stronger.
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“We’ve done it from day one, we’ve had a vision of the sort of football we want to play and some parts are really, really good and have surprised me with the progress and other parts we’re still in the early stages of development. We’ve got a platform here to kick on and try on from here.
“Part of that process is just a trust thing, the club has obviously invested in me, you can only gain that trust over a period of time and after doing certain things.
“The club itself probably took a lot of comfort from our summer window knowing they got their business right there and going into this window, saying you want to work quickly, there’s a leap of faith there which the club has to have in me and what I’m doing.
James Maddison of Tottenham Hotspur embraces the team's manager, Ange Postecoglou (2023 Getty Images)“I think the first part of the season has helped that and hopefully that keeps accelerating because hopefully it can accelerate our work and where we want to get to. All things being equal, we’ve had some rotten luck with injuries, Rodrigo Bentancur, James Maddison and suspensions which are our own fault but all these things we have to overcome.
“But with the conditions we’ve overcome, with the conditions we’ve made, we certainly feel we can finish the season stronger than we started.”
Tottenham signed Dragusin for £21.5m from Genoa and a centre half to back up and compete with Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero was always their top priority. Romero is back in training and could be involved at Old Trafford. Maddison is also nearly ready to resume training.
They regarded anything else as a bonus and Werner has arrived on a loan from RB Leipzig with something to prove after a spell at Chelsea when he became as well known for his misses in front of goal as the fact he won the Champions League.
Timo Werner has returned to England to increase Spurs' firepower (Alex Morton/Tottenham Hotspur F.C./REX/Shutterstock)Postecoglou insists that Werner’s energy and pressing style will suit his tactics but also admitted that Spurs technical director Johan Lange would not have been able to do a deal unless the Germany star had been struggling in his second spell in Leipzig.
Postecoglou said: “It’s fair to say that if Timo was playing regularly and scoring goals, he wouldn’t be here. We wouldn’t be able to afford him. It’s as simple as that.
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“You’re looking for these opportunities and potentially looking beyond the obvious to say, ‘there’s an opportunity here’.
“When Johan presented it to me, I was really excited by it because I thought, ‘here’s an opportunity that normally wouldn’t come across our desk at this point in time where we are as a club.’ Our priority was the centre-back position.
“I could see some real possibilities for him playing in our system that maybe at Leipzig, where they’ve changed the way they play that maybe the opportunities wouldn’t be as plentiful for him there. I think part of the attraction is that he can play left, right, through the middle.”
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