Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has heaped praise on summer signing Micky van de Ven.
The centre half has earned his first call up to the Netherlands senior team for the upcoming international break.
Postecoglou is pleased for van de Ven to take such a step in his career, and admits Spurs signed the defender because of his immense potential.
He told reporters: Look, we signed him because we believe he has got some great attributes, a great profile and some great potential but I wouldn't go as far as to say one game justifies all those things.
Micky knows he is here to challenge himself, for sure, he is here to improve and he is here to hopefully develop into the defender he wants to be and we believe he can be in the toughest possible environment.
He only had one year in the Bundesliga and before that he was with Volendam, not one of the big Dutch clubs with respect to Volendam.
So, he has made some enormous leaps and that was encouraging to me because it means this is another enormous leap that he will be able to handle, but he will be the first to say one game is not what he came here for.
He is here to challenge himself and will be facing some of the world's best strikers on a weekly basis and that will be his challenge but he is a willing learner.
He came with that mindset and our role is to provide that environment now and that is our responsibility. We have taken the potential and now it is to give him the environment to turn that potential into what he can be."