Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: July 25, 2023, 18:35 IST
Tottenham Hotspur star Son Heung-min (Twitter)
Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Ange Postecoglou was stuffed with reward for Son Heung-min.
New Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Ange Postecoglou on Tuesday spoke in glowing phrases of winger Son Heung-min and the large affect the South Korean has on his team-mates on the Premier League membership.
Speaking a day forward of his group’s pre-season match towards native aspect Lion City Sailors at Singapore’s National Stadium, the Australian lauded Son’s abilities as a participant and chief.
“I’ve identified Sonny rather well for a extremely very long time and I feel he’s an impressive participant,” said the former Australia national manager.
“When you talk about wingers who are a goal threat, he’s elite and as good as anyone. He has that ability of playing wide and playing one-on-one but the fact that he scores goals is just priceless. I’m really looking forward to working with him.”
Ange additionally lavished reward on Son for his management qualities.
“I have a look at him and he’s just about the conduit for the entire squad as a result of he mixes in properly and he’s properly revered for what he’s executed within the recreation,” he mentioned.
“It’s good to see that he has a massive influence on the group which doesn’t surprise me because I know he’s been a leader and a sort of icon for his nation for a very long time and he carries himself really well. He has got enormous respect amongst the playing group which is great to see.”
Another participant who got here in for reward from the Australian was younger midfielder Oliver Skipp, who joined Tottenham’s pre-season tour to the Asia-Pacific nearly instantly after serving to England win the European Under-21 Championship earlier this month.
“We gave him the choice and I used to be greater than ready for him to overlook this journey. But behind my thoughts, I like the truth that he got here again early,” said Postecoglou.
“It didn’t surprise me but it was the decision he made. And he’s been great and obviously with less time off, he’s in real good physical condition and he’s adapting really well to the way we’re training.”
Following the cancellation of their pleasant towards Leicester City in Bangkok on Sunday, Postecoglou spoke of his gamers placing in further work coaching to make up for the shortage of match motion.
“It was not excellent however we simply wanted to regulate and it’s honest to say that the gamers most likely paid the most important worth as a result of they labored actually onerous the previous couple of days to compensate for the actual fact we didn’t have a recreation,” he said.
“Obviously the conditions here are still quite humid and warm but we had a double session today and a strong session yesterday so we’re trying to compensate. We would have preferred to have the game of course but these are the things in life you have to find solutions for.”
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – AFP)
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