Ange Postecoglou is holding a press conference on Friday afternoon ahead of Tottenham's trip to Craven Cottage to face Fulham in the Premier League on Sunday.
Barely 15 hours have passed since Spurs' big win against AZ at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium sent them through to the Europa League quarter-finals, where they will face Eintracht Frankfurt across two legs next month with the second to be played in Germany. Tottenham won 3-1 on Thursday night with shining displays from the likes of Wilson Odobert, Lucas Bergvall and Postecoglou's senior players James Maddison, Son Heung-min and Dominic Solanke.
Another player who was heavily involved at both ends of the pitch was Djed Spence and despite various man of the match performances in the Premier League in the past month and impressive displays across the board, the 24-year-old has not been handed a spot in Thomas Tuchel's first England squad.
Postecoglou will be asked about that at his press conference on Friday afternoon as well as going into further detail about the win over AZ and the team selection decisions he must make for the tough Premier League clash at Fulham, as well as any injuries picked up in the European victory.
Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold is among those putting the questions to Postecoglou once again. Scroll down for his latest updates from the press conference at Hotspur Way.
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Here's every single word the Tottenham boss said
We've got a full transcript with every word Ange Postecoglou just said on that Cristian Romero social media post, what Lucas Bergvall has learned, Archie Gray in midfield, Djed Spence missing out on the England squad, the latest injury news, Kulusevski, Danso and plenty more which you can find by heading right here.
Postecoglou on Cristian Romero thanking Argentina physios for his recovery
It depends. Those kind of things are individual, they're designed around the players. For us, what's important, what's always important is that you treat the individual and each person needs something different. What we want to do is get the best outcome. With Cuti, he's obviously very important to the Argentinean national set-up as well so they're always offering their assistance.
I think it's been a combination of both, them and us co-ordinated. He spent a bit of time away from here, working with them and for us the key thing is that he's back now and he's still building up. He's missed a lot of football this year, he's hardly played, but I think the two games he's played you can see that he's growing into it and hopefully with the international break, he'll get an opportunity to build that up further.
The Australian on Bergvall's discipline
I think he's had to work on that. Fair to say when he first got here the coaches spent a lot of time with him, working on his tactical awareness and being disciplined and again a big thing you look for in players is their coachability and their ability to take in information and then the ability to take that information to help them improve. He's certainly taken that on board.
At the start it took him a little bit of time. He tended to run too much. I remember a couple of early games in Europe when he just ran out of steam because he was running too much. He was maybe overplaying the ball at times. He's simplified his game and the coaches have given him feedback and he's taken that on board.
Postecoglou on Bergvall's physical side
I think everyone has worked with him, the coaches have worked with him, he's worked on it. I don't think he's left Deki's side since he's been here and Deki is in the gym all the time. He's a great role model for him and I think if nothing else, Deki has forced him to get in there and work hard on his game.
He's also an outstanding technical player. I think his technical proficiency is still his greatest asset. He's growing, you've got to remember he's only just turned 19. He's still a very young man and if he keeps building up physically as well, to the standard the Premier League, particularly in that midfield position, you need, if you have that physical ability and that technical proficiency then you've got a decent player on your hands.
The Spurs boss on Maddison and Spence missing out on the England squad
I’m not across it. I’m pretty critical myself when people question my selections because every manager has all of the information they need. Madders, in a really challenging season for us, has grinded his way through and his quality has really come through in the last few weeks — especially when we have been able to give him a spell (rest) every now and then. Again, last night I thought he was a real catalyst for us in an attacking sense and also worked hard for the team.
Djed has been super this year .I always feel with these things, particularly with national team selection, it’s never a kind of thing where you just draw a line through it. I have no doubt if Djed keeps performing how he is and Madders keeps working hard I’m sure Thomas will be looking across the board at his squads over the next period and I’m sure both of them will be in the frame.
Postecoglou on team news
Yeah pretty good. Nothing from last night. Everyone got through it well, and no one is coming back in. Obviously, Reguilon and Werner are available. Rodrigo Bentancur is available. Yeah, from last night, nothing untoward.
Time for our Tottenham talking points
You can read our Tottenham talking points including Lucas Bergvall's roaring message, Richarlison and Dragusin grappling in the dugout, Postecoglou's gesture towards Pedro Porro, exciting Odobert, pressure creating diamonds and plenty more by heading right here.
Here are our Spurs player ratings
You can find our Spurs player ratings after that vital win against AZ by going right here.
Here's what the Spurs boss said last night
We've got every word Ange Postecoglou said last night on special Wilson Odobert, the rare thing that happened in his Spurs team, Lucas Bergvall's display, Maddison, Son, Romero and Van de Ven's displays and the Europa League quarter-finals and you can find that in a full transcript by heading right here.
Welcome to Hotspur Way
Ange Postecoglou will be with us shortly for another press conference in his busy week at Tottenham.
