00:00A lot of old Tottenham managers, your predecessors, would talk about having to do things differently
00:06from their rivals in terms of the transfer market, and you said that the club would never
00:11spend £100 million. Pochettino used to talk about how they had to operate differently
00:16from their rivals. Do you now believe that Tottenham are able to operate at the same
00:23level as their rivals, and do you feel fortunate that you are the manager who escaped better
00:28from that?
00:29Yes, I am very happy and I think I can't speak about the other coaches. I just can say in
00:44my experience, my experience is they kept the word, they kept what they said before, I
00:53came in March, the end of March, in the middle of March, and I am very happy, but what we
01:04are doing, we are doing now for the coach, for the club, for the fans, for the history of
01:12the club, for the proud of the club, for the level of the club. I think this moment is crucial
01:23for this club, because after two seasons like we did, we have to change the mood, completely
01:32changed the mood, completely changed, give a boost. And then I think when we have finished
01:41in this transfer market, for a long time we have, for a long time we don't need many things,
01:51and we can work all together in the right conditions, in the right direction, to build step by step something
02:01special or any way to go to compete for the top of the table. Not maybe now, or maybe yes,
02:13I don't know, but we have the
02:16the squad enough to play in every stadium in the right way, face to face. We know we have to
02:27improve, we have to
02:29become a team, but I think also we have all qualities to do that.
02:43Roberto, obviously last season was a bit of a special situation, you know, rescue mission which you
02:48pulled off, how much do you feel that this year is going to be the real Roberto deserving time?
02:54Yes, last season was maybe the best moment in football for me, especially in the last game, you know, I
03:04was very, very happy,
03:05very, very proud. But we have to go forward, we have to move on and to stay focused on this
03:17week.
03:18Because sport or football, every day is a different challenge, you can't keep with you the memories.
03:27The memories are good, are nice, at the end of your career when you stop yourself and you look what
03:37you have done.
03:40But now we have to push, we have to, we have a big challenge to scalare un po' la classifica.
03:52You grew up in the table.
03:56And you mentioned the size of your squad and having players who can play in different areas, but particularly in
04:04central
04:04field, you've got a lot of players from just two positions in the league and then up in the ten.
04:09How are you, in a season where you've only got no Euro, how are you going to keep from those
04:14players happy?
04:15Nothing. I love speaking clearly. Today is the 21st of August. I think everyone of them, the players, they already
04:34know the squad.
04:36If someone of them, they don't want to accept the competition inside of the pitch, inside of the dressing room,
04:48they can, they can leave.
04:52But I try, I think, I try to be honest and to decide the better decision I can on the
05:08pitch to find the best first eleven.
05:11But the players, the players have to accept. Why? Because if we want to become better, if we want to
05:20compete for the top of the table, eleven players are not enough.
05:24Fifteen players are not enough. And if you analyse the teams, Liverpool two years ago, Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester City
05:35or Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Real Madrid, the top, Juventus, Milan, the squad, there is a big competition inside of the
05:48dressing room.
05:50And just lastly, you've obviously strengthened your defence in the field. Your attack, how much more do you want to
05:57strengthen that? Is it significantly? Do you feel like you've got enough goals in this team?
06:01How much more might you want to be going out by next?
06:03How much more do you want to strengthen the attack?
06:07Well, now it's not the right moment to speak about the last ten days of transfer market. I think he's
06:23not finished yet, I said.
06:25I'm very happy with Mikey Moore. He's working well. He's a good player. I don't know if he goes or
06:33not on loan. I think he's a big potential for the club.
06:41And we try to find the best solution for every player we have. Also for Luca Barnett or Malakai are
06:49two potential big players, proud that they come from our academy and they have to manage them like the best
07:02we can, the best way we can.
07:05Thanks.
07:07David, it's Go-Logman.
07:10Your marquee signing is Sandro Tonali who is going to spend a hundred million pounds in the game. When you
07:17spoke to him in Brescia, I guess you present him your idea. In these first weeks of the season, what
07:23have you seen from him and what do you think he can do in your time?
07:27Sandro Tonali is better than I thought before to work with him, as a player and as a guy. I
07:38know his family, his agents, and I know they are all good people.
07:48I am very happy working with him and I think he is the right player in the right place, especially
07:57because we want to put him inside of the project.
08:03He has the right qualities, the right personalities, the right value to stay in this place.
08:11You saw the season tomorrow, how close this team is to the idea of a top-hand successful team?
08:20On the paper, it is very close. On the pitch we have to see and we have to work.
08:27I have already experienced enough to not say too much. Why?
08:36Because I am very happy for the squad. We have to finish and to complete the squad.
08:47But in this moment I am very happy. But at the end the answer you can receive from the pitch
08:56has to be like my dreams, my thoughts with the sport director, with the CEO and with the board.
09:11When do you think you will know if this team you have today, when will you know if it is
09:18good enough to compete for the top five or the top ten?
09:28I don't know, maybe, maybe now. Maybe, I don't know. You have to see on the pitch, to be honest.
09:37Everyone, we are very excited, but at the end there is always the pitch.
09:50In Italian languages we say that the pitch speaks, no?
09:57Il campo parla.
10:01Il campo parla.
10:24E' diŠ
10:27we have to work and we have to have the answer from the pitch because football
10:38is a connection football is a is like a magic thing no you can you can find
10:49sometimes the magia in camp or not the connection between the players this the
11:00idea of football every every player think like like the coach or anyway we go
11:08together forward for an ideal an idea of football the player when they don't
11:18start in the first 11 they push and they are the first fan of the player who are
11:24playing we have to find that we have to create some something special on the
11:30pitch and something special outside of the pitch to compete like you said like I
11:38want
11:52yes yes Berkval 100% we spoke a lot in Preciso he's top player he's top potential
12:01player and I would like he stays here but I think now is he wants to stay and we have
12:15no problem for Pappé Pappé started the preseason late because he stayed in the
12:24state in Senegal I think until the first week the first days in August is a good
12:36player I don't know if he stays or not we have to see we have to analyze the
12:41situation but he's another very very very important player
13:08John
13:10yes big potential and
13:16at the end of the transfer market I will be more accurate in my my opinion
13:51yes yes and for that yes and for that I come to create a big team and I was happy
13:57to have
13:57keep the balance, because sometimes transfer market, Tonali, JP Van Eyck, we will go and
14:06then, no, if we have to push, I will be the first to push, to fix the target higher we
14:18can, higher as we can, but now is not the right moment, now is the moment to think to
14:26Brentford, to complete the transfer market, and then to make the point and to
14:35find and follow the two targets I said, soul and style of play, level of play and
14:42quality of play, and then we can fix what goals, what target you want, without
14:54arrogance, but also without too much, but anyway with big ambitions, no, because we are working
15:06in Tottenham, not in another small team.
15:10Okay, we are running out of time, so we will go to George and then finish with Tom, please.
15:14Roberto, you speak about the soul, I think last week it was, you had a lot of former
15:19players, legends of the club, in for a meal, is that kind of part of why you did that, if
15:25you didn't want that they represent the soul, do you want them to get that into the first
15:30Yes, I, I, yes it's for that, because I think the players, especially the, the foreign players,
15:39they have to understand the level of this club, you know, even they finish two seasons in a row,
15:47in the 17th position, nothing changed, the level of the club can, can't change, because in the last two seasons,
16:00it was not great, and the legends, I think they can explain better than me, or better than you, as
16:11a journalist,
16:12what Tottenham has been in Premier League and in Europe.
16:18How was it for you talking to some of those guys that played Hodel?
16:22Yes, I'm sorry, because I didn't see Chris Waddle, because Chris Waddle was my favourite player,
16:32one of my favourite players when I was a kid, and he played in Marseille, and Marseille I said
16:39like the same, like this, and Hodel was, was good for Kudus, for Kuluzewski, for Xavi, for Matisse, because he
16:54was a great player.
17:08I don't know, you have to explain me, I don't know, I don't know, but for me, no pressure, and
17:21it's not a problem.
17:24I don't know why the people don't love if Tottenham becomes better, no?
17:35He's a, he's a, one motivation more, no, for us.
17:41I was going to say, do you quite like it, do you quite like it?
17:43Last season, all other clubs, all other teams, they wanted to kill us, no?
17:54And he's a, he's another part of football, no, the, the...
18:02You told your players to remember that, what happened last season, and the other teams wanted to...
18:07Ah, every week.
18:11Every week we have to remember last season.
18:18Last, last friendly game against Offenheim was, the last time was with Everton, against Everton.
18:31You can imagine the differences between the game with Everton and the friendly game after we stay up as a
18:41pressure, as a, as a day, no?
18:48So, thank you, thank you.
18:56Thank you very much.
