Ange Postecoglou has insisted he is confident Mathys Tel will join Tottenham Hotspur permanently at the end of his loan from Bayern Munich. Spurs worked hard to convince Tel to make the move on deadline day,

Everybody’s seen the social media clips, the memes and heard the awkward interviews of Ange Postecoglou snapping at questions he has not liked, and yet Mathys Tel is the latest player to have fallen for the seductive telephone manner of the Tottenham Hotspur head coach.

Current captain Son Heung-min featured in that Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City and is the longest serving player after Ben Davies, who joined in 2014. Postecoglou can sense in the duo a desire to end the club’s well-documented 17-year trophy drought.