Postecoglou looking for points when Spurs travel to inconsistent Man Utd
27/09/2024
Tottenham Way training centre, London, UK
27/09/2024
Tottenham Way training centre, London, UK
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00:00We'll start with the broadcast section with no embargo, followed by an embargoed section
00:18for 10.30 p.m. tonight.
00:19No live tweeting during the broadcast section, please, and use the microphone.
00:20Hi, Anj.
00:21How are you looking for Sunday, team, news-wise?
00:22Look, I think, obviously, it's still early days, a wash-up from last night, fair to say,
00:35the boys are fairly tired, the ones who put in the shift.
00:39I think, apart from Sonny, everyone's okay, and Sonny, I don't think he's too bad, so
00:46he wants to train tomorrow, so we'll obviously see how it goes at training tomorrow, and
00:52make a decision from there.
00:53Speaking to him, obviously, he was so good the other day in the press, if he feels okay
00:54and ready to go, because there's so many games coming up, isn't there?
00:55Yeah, true, yeah.
00:56But again, we've got another day up our sleeve to give him every chance.
00:57The club are expected to trigger an extra year on his contract, you always have the
00:58final say, is that an easy decision for you?
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07:30I think what makes kind of venues unique is the atmosphere and like I said last year when
07:36we played there I thought the atmosphere was brilliant, the supporters got behind their
07:39club and obviously I'm not there all the time so I can't tell if that's changed but my experience
07:46there last year was that it's still a great atmosphere at Old Trafford, it's a great stadium
07:51in terms of the history introduced and behind it and it's one of those games that I think
07:57players and everyone involved, managers get excited about and certainly we will be as
08:01well.
08:02And since he deleted his social media account, Brendan Johnson can't stop scoring for you
08:07and playing well. Firstly, I know your views on social media, firstly do you think all
08:12footballers should delete their social media accounts and secondly has that had even psychologically
08:18some sort of influence on him over the last couple of weeks?
08:22I don't know, if it's made sort of, you know, Brendan happier or sort of more comfortable,
08:32I think when you switch something off it's probably because it makes you uncomfortable
08:35rather than sort of unhappy, then that's great for him but that's not the reason I don't
08:41think, I think the reason is that he, as I said a couple of weeks ago, he just works
08:44awfully hard at his game and if you work awfully hard at something and you're really passionate
08:48about it, you know, eventually you get the rewards, you know, the thing is not to let
08:54it sort of affect your work ethic and your focus and it hasn't, you know, like I said
08:59Brendan is in every day wanting to be better, he asks for feedback, he's continually working
09:04on his game, he really cares about the club, he cares about his teammates, he wants to
09:08be the best he can be and I think when you have that attitude eventually the rewards
09:12come and, you know, at the moment he's getting the rewards but I still think there's more
09:16to come, I think there's a lot more to come and I say that because I know, you know, even
09:21now he's looking to improve, looking to get better and that's what you want to see in
09:25young players.
09:28If Sonny is out on Sunday, who will be your options to play on the left and is it fair
09:34to assume Mikey Moore's not ready to start a Premier League game just yet?
09:39No, I wouldn't say that, yeah look, we'll see with Sonny but, you know, obviously with
09:44Sonny out we're kind of limited with, and Richie out because Richie can play there as
09:49well, we're kind of limited a little bit but, you know, Timo and Mikey certainly come into
09:54the frame, we've got Deki Golasiewski who can play wide as well so we've got some options
09:58there so, but firstly we'll just see how Sonny is and we'll decide from there.
10:03And how is Timo because he obviously had a difficult night at Coventry last week but
10:07come on yesterday, I mean, is he the sort of player that is experienced enough to get
10:12through these difficult phases and can become a key player like he was last season?
10:17Yeah, look again, you know, it's, I think we've mentioned so far Vic apparently was
10:22getting criticism, Brennan was getting Timo's turn, I mean it's part of being a professional
10:26footballer so I think, you know, you're always going to get criticism, you're always going
10:30to get scrutiny, it's how you react to it, you know, like I said, for me what I want
10:34is to see them coming in every day, working hard at their game.
10:37If they're getting criticism and, or if they're not performing and, you know, I see their
10:41attitudes not great then that's when I intervene, you know, because I think there's only one
10:46way to change that but, as I said, Timo is, again, he's a professional, he comes in every
10:52day working hard and, you know, I've got no doubt he can make an impact for us but the
10:58best way to do that is, as I said, just to focus on his football and, you know, keep
11:04doing the right things.
11:06And plenty of managers in your position would be sort of talking about how Man United have
11:10had 24 hours extra to prepare and you have a long trip, from your point of view, has
11:15that got to be blocked out and no one can be thinking about that going into this game?
11:18Oh, it's just what you've got to deal with, you know, obviously it's not ideal that, you
11:22know, we had a late finish last night, that we had to play with 10 men for a long time
11:26so, you know, it's in an ideal world and, you know, you'd have things a lot differently
11:33but the ideal worlds don't exist, everyone has challenges and our challenge is that,
11:38you know, we're going to have to recover really well.
11:41We've got some fresh guys as well, you know, Pedro, Romero, Benton Cole, Madison didn't
11:48even play last night, Deckey half a game, Brennan half a game so, you know, we still
11:53have some freshness there that, you know, can help us.