Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou has spoken about the club's future.
The Australian manager gave his first press conference in charge of the North London club today.
Postecoglou was quizzed about the chances for the club to immediately get back to winning ways, after a season that ended without any European football for this coming term.
Asked whether the fans should have patience, Postecoglou responded: It's fair to say every position I've had has needed some sort of rebuild. I had a brilliant two years at Celtic, loved every minute of it, but it was challenging, particularly at the start. I don't know if it's about patience. You can't ask people to feel a certain way or dampen expectations. I think what I've tried to do wherever I've been, including Celtic, is allow them to form their own opinion based on what they see not what I say.
We had a massive rebuild at Celtic but at the beginning, even though the results weren't there, the supporters could see what we were trying to do and get behind us. I don't know whether it's going to be a rocky start or a good start for us but my hope and desire and what I'm going to try to do is give supporters hope that we're going to embark on something special."
On whether it will take time for his football to get across to the players, he added: I don't know about that because other people have said that because it has been where ever I have been but it varies. It takes longer sometimes but again we can start the season flying, I hope so.
It depends on how the players adapt it and it's not the way we play, its the way we train, we behave the way we talk we have put together a coaching staff together and we are working as a unit.
To be fair I wasn't really aware of it but as soon I took this job it became obvious that people that I was old so I have tried to get many young guys around me as possible to keep me relevant. I'm really happy because those guys are good a combination of guys who know this club really well. Some others really ambitious coaches and I love working with people like that.
I'm sure some of them will be managers in their own right in future but right now they are putting their energies in helpings us all, and they have really good energies and that is important for me to transfer to the players, because the Premier League is the toughest competition and you don't really get time to sort of bed. And from the first game we have to be on it and we are going to try for the next five six weeks to be prepared for that."