Tottenham: Ange Postecoglou talks up Radu Dragusin qualities after Micky van de Ven blow

And it would look that the 22-year-old's patience is astir to beryllium rewarded arsenic helium is the astir apt enactment to regenerate Van de Ven against Aston Villa astatine the play and is successful enactment to support his spot successful defence astatine slightest until the planetary interruption arsenic the aforementioned Dutchman isn't expected backmost earlier then.

Discussing Dragusin’s improvement since arriving successful northbound London, Postecoglou has picked retired the qualities that could crook him into 1 the the champion defender’s successful the Premier League successful the future.

"Radu's been with america 10 months present and I deliberation he's been great. We signed him due to the fact that we saw immoderate truly beardown attributes successful him successful presumption of his defending capabilities, his mindset and again a truly unsocial travel that helium had to combat hard to get wherever helium wants to. So, helium had each those things I look for.

“He is inactive young and helium is moving hard each time connected his crippled and each aspects of his game. Defenders you cognize they thin to get amended with property with experience, the bully ones, and with him, guys similar Micky and Destiny, the crushed we signed them astatine the property they did is we truly judge successful years to travel they'll get stronger and helium is doing that.

“Every clip helium is retired determination I deliberation I tin spot improvements. He is truly embracing the mode we play. It is precise antithetic to wherever helium came from, playing truthful aggressively with our enactment and defending one-on-one but he's embracing that and enjoying that.

“I thought helium was large the different night. Not conscionable successful his shot but successful presumption of his beingness and demeanour, helium took immoderate enactment there.

"Obviously, we mislaid 2 of our backmost 4 during the crippled with Micky going down and past Cuti (Cristian Romero) out. He had Archie adjacent to him who is 18 and I thought helium truly stood up successful that clip conscionable to marque definite with those disruptions, we maintained our organisation and I thought helium was truly good."