Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is happy to introduce his summer signings gradually.
The team should take on a younger feel once Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso and Ryan Sessegnon - a trio with an average age of 21 who arrived at a combined cost of 120m during the summer - are fully integrated. But while fans are clamouring to see more of them, Pochettino insists they should not be expected to provide immediate solutions.
"It's important not to put too much responsibility on the new signings," he says. "They have come to give the team certain qualities, but of course we also understand that they are young players who have to adapt, and who, in Lo Celso and Ndombele's cases, have come from abroad, from different leagues. The priority is adaption more than performance.
"There's a lot of pressure for them but there are a lot of examples of young players, like Son and like many others, who have needed a season or a season-and-a-half in order to perform at the level that we want. These three players are not going to be the exceptions. They are not that."
