Mauricio Pochettino believes Tottenham Hotspur’s lenient festive schedule will give him the chance to introduce “new concepts” to his summer signings and spark a successful second half of the season.
“For the new players that arrived, [it’s important] to be more comfortable here, to know everything, to adapt their quality to the team,” he told a news conference.
“The first six months is always difficult for the new players because we don’t have much time to work — sometimes we work only through the video because we can’t do anything on the pitch. And it’s not the same.
“Just today [Tuesday] we were talking about next week — it will be key for us to work with the new players, introduce different concepts that we need to improve on the team.”
“It’s true that for different reasons, like injuries, we’ve missed this feeling [of competition],”he said.
“Of course, in the second part of the season, if we can recover everyone — now Lamela is nearly 100 percent, or Victor Wanyama — it’s very good news for the team to have everyone at a very good level.
“The second half of the season, with all the squad fit and all together, we will be more competitive. We are going to have Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, and we need to be competitive and strong.”
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