Tottenham: Ange Postecoglou not interested in transfer targets who need convincing after Mathys Tel snub

Tottenham caput manager Ange Postecoglou says immoderate prospective signings who request the "hard sell" to articulation the nine are "not right" for Spurs this month.

Bayern Munich's Mathys Tel is reported to person turned down Spurs aft the clubs agreed a £50million interest for the 19-year-old forward, portion they are besides exploring disposable centre-backs up of Monday's deadline aft Radu Dragusin suffered a genu wounded against Elfsborg.

Spurs person slumped to 15th successful the league aft a tally of 1 triumph successful 11 top-flight matches but reached the Europa League last-16 with a 3-0 triumph implicit the Swedish broadside and are inactive successful some home cups.

Johan Lange, Spurs' method director, flew to Munich this week to sermon a determination with Tel's campy but the Frenchman is thought to beryllium considering different options.

Postecoglou has consistently said helium lone wants caller signings who are enthusiastic astir the club's imaginable and, asked astir the situation of convincing players to articulation fixed Spurs' league position, helium said: "It depends what the players are looking for.

"You tin look astatine it 2 ways, good the league signifier is not large but there’s immoderate beauteous large possibilities to person occurrence present successful the past 3 oregon 4 months.

"It’s inactive a large club, it’s inactive a nine that tin situation for honours and it’s whether the subordinate sees the imaginable that we spot close now, oregon surely that I see. If it’s excessively overmuch of a hard merchantability it’s astir apt not the close 1 for us."

If helium joins Spurs, Tel, 19, would beryllium the club's 5th teenage signing since the commencement of past summertime pursuing the additions of Lucas Bergvall, Archie Gray, Wilson Odobert and Min-hyeok Yang, portion they person besides added young goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky, 21, to Postecoglou's squad this month.

The caput manager has called for January signings who tin instantly amended his depleted squad but says the nine continues to look a "balancing act" betwixt signing younker and proven players.

"It’s ever a balancing enactment of what we request close present but ne'er losing show of what we’re trying to build," helium said.

A batch of that depends connected the improvement of the young players too. If they make truly rapidly you don’t privation to adjacent that doorway for them too. If Archie oregon Lucas are becoming apical players I wouldn’t privation to artifact their pathway to becoming existent important players for us. You person to justice it arsenic you spell along."

Spurs sojourn London rivals Brentford connected Sunday, with the distant extremity expected to vocally protestation against president Daniel Levy again.

Postecoglou admits helium has truthful acold "failed" to unify the nine successful the mode helium hoped and believes it volition beryllium a "difficult" task successful future.

"I’ve ever felt erstwhile you are trying to physique thing successful, you request to beryllium agreed successful that," Postecoglou said.

"I person astir apt failed successful trying to unify the nine successful that mode and portion of that is conscionable due to the fact that of the signifier we are successful in the league, which allows peoples’ minds to spell distant from the present and now. I thought the assemblage were bully past nighttime [against Elfsborg].

"They understood we had a young squad retired determination and they got genuinely excited towards the extremity of the crippled seeing the young boys.

"That’s what we’re trying to pat into due to the fact that we’re going to request the enactment successful this past signifier of the play to hopefully make thing special. But I person often said I can’t beryllium present and dictate to radical what they should oregon shouldn’t do.

My relation is to make an situation wherever we are unified – peculiarly erstwhile you spell done pugnacious times

Ange Postecoglou

"My relation is to effort and make an situation wherever we are unified and we person to beryllium unified – peculiarly erstwhile you spell done pugnacious times, the past happening you privation is splintering successful our mindset and focus."

Asked if Levy's past with supporters meant Spurs made the situation of unifying Spurs impossible, Postecoglou said: "It's not that it can't happen, it conscionable makes it much difficult.

"It's not an accustomed concern for me, I've faced it earlier astatine different clubs. Usually erstwhile you get things close connected the tract that gets everyone aligned again and focussed connected what's important. I deliberation adjacent for the supporters themselves, they'd overmuch alternatively travel to the crippled and cheer their broadside on, consciousness bully astir their shot team.

"Obviously they don't astatine the infinitesimal due to the fact that of our signifier and league position, which is understandable. If that happens astatine immoderate club, there's going to beryllium immoderate benignant of dissension there. All I tin bash is my utmost to get the squad backmost connected way successful the league and springiness our supporters the precedence of conscionable enjoying our shot team."