Good afternoon
Here we go
Jose...
Hand on two seconds! Can we wait for everyone
Wow, where did that come from?
Away win Start to your new Tottenham career and could have been more as well?
Yeah but I'm not worried
about my Tottenham career I'm worried about Tottenham and about the
players and was very very important, eleven months without music in
the away dressing room, without a smile, without happiness and they did it and
I'm very happy with them, I'm very happy for them, I think if somebody didn't
watch the game and just know the result I think that was very very difficult for
us to win but I think the feeling is that we were closer to the 4-0 then
West Ham was to the 3-1 but this is Premier League and their first goal
changed things a little bit and I think also my players they paid the price of a
very very difficult week, a week where they arrived from national team some of
them arrived from difficult matches some of them travelling, change the manager
arrives a new guy, new training sessions, new ideas the emotional thing that
surrounds that I don't think he's ever easy for a football player to
work with a coaching staff and the next day other people is there so, difficult
things to process so I think physically the team had a break and probably also a
little bit scared of that of that mental barrier of the bad results away
so the last 20/25 minutes was who not easy but I think we played very very
well for about an hour really really well and I'm very happy for the boys
Jose what did you make of the performance of Dele Alli?
I think Dele was.. I think Dele was like the team it was brilliant
for 60/65 minutes and then he and then he paid also the price, he paid
also the price of the tiredness so he went a little bit down but I think it
was the Dele Alli, the Dele Alli of a couple of years ago that
impressed not just England but the world, he did exactly what I wanted him
to do with two days of work important selection of information try to make
clear for him exactly the spaces where we wanted him to to play offensively and
defensively, intelligent football player to understand what we wanted and very
very important for the team really pleased with this with this performance
Jose, can you describe Dele's piece of skill for the second goal?
Yeah because was just in front of me
the piece of skill is amazing but for me what is more amazing is is the mental
sync in relation to that, you know you only do that if you are focused if you
are committed if you are ultra confident if not you know you give up you know
when you have the bad feelings the sadness you don't do that that piece of
skill is amazing but only comes when by the emotional point of view everything
is positive so fantastic I'm really really happy
Jose, from what you've seen from the training session and this first game are you going to rebuild this team?
Does it need that or are you going to explore the changes?
What do you mean? Team, squad, style?
You know sometimes people, sometimes you see 4/3/3 or 4/2/3/1 and
sometimes people think it's the same, it's never the same because we the same let's
say positional tactic base the important thing are the dynamic is that you bring
and I think I want to do my things, I start doing my things, I hope that you
don't understand it very very well when you don't speak about it a lot but you
know positional play is different and I think very adapted to the players
I tried to give the players comfort especially in this moment where you know
a little bit of emotion around it, I'll try to give them comfort and give them
comfort is to play them and ask from them things that they can give, sometimes
we complicate things, sometimes we ask from the players as things that they are
not ready to to give, I try to ask the boys, Dele, of course Harry
Son, Lucas, Harry.. Harry Winks, Eric, I try exactly to give them the easier job for
them and the easier job is adapted to their qualities and I think Dele
feels very comfortable in this role with freedom but following
principles and following things that we do in training so I think, I
think they are fine, I think they're fine and we have a game two in two days I
think we can go and win that match at home and qualify Champions League and
then I think the mood, the confidence comes high for the boys
Jose, what did it feel like being back out there, stood at the front of the technical area watching your team play?
What did that feel like again?
To confess you...
the most difficult moments for me in these 11 months, a part of the summer
where for the first time I didn't have a pre-season and I was looking at other
managers, clubs, teams during pre-season, the thing that was the most weird
feeling was when I was going to football stadiums and sometimes I was finding
myself "what am I doing here?" here in the box, here in Sky studio, what am I
doing here? that was the most weird feeling I belong there, that's where I
belong so today the feeling is.. I was where I
belong that's my natural habitat, was I extra emotional? No, Was I nervous before
the game? No but I just love it and especially when things go in your
direction of course it's the best thing in football is to win matches
You say its been 11 months without music in the dressing Jose?
Have you chosen the music..
No no no no, yesterday in the dressing room I felt a bit, a bit
I felt that they were a bit like they don't know if I like the music in the
dressing room at the training ground was low, so maybe they mmm this guy likes
this guy doesn't like? allows doesn't allow? but the dressing room during the
week is their home, they can do what they want but when you go away the music
after the game I like because a victory
is something that you have to value it's
hard to win matches we work hard in these two days the boys they work hard
today is something that you've have to value you cannot win a match and
just leave it like "okay we won" the same way you cannot lose a
match and after a couple of hours you are in the nightclub enjoying with
with your friends, you have to value defeat, you have to value victory when you
when you lose you have to feel it, when you win you have to feel it too so I was
happy with the music was loud, I don't care which music it is I just like the
feeling that the boys are happy and the boys are happy thank you