'That's all we do every day!' - Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou rejects Eric Dier tactical work claim

Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou has refuted Eric Dier's claims about a lack of tactical work on the training ground, saying "that's all we do every day."

Postecoglou had been responding to quotes from Dier, now at Bayern Munich on-loan from Spurs, who had said that he didn't feel there was much tactical work at Spurs before his move to Germany.

Postecoglou was told about these comments and although he pointed out that he hadn't seen the interview so didn't have the context he felt that there was plenty of tactical work going on.

"It's probably something you'd have to ask Eric, I don't know what you mean by tactical work," he said.

"Everything we do is geared on how we are going to play our football, so for me by extension is tactical work.

"Whether that's on us, or whether it's on the opposition. In fact I would probably say we don't do anything apart from tactical work.

"That's all we do every day. If we're working on our fitness, we're still trying to play our football.

"But I haven't seen the interview so I'm not sure what he's referencing. If you're talking about do we do training where we're standing around and working on how we're going to stop an opposition, how we're going to break down, no we don't do that.

"But I don't think that's the only kind of tactical work that exists. I think anyone who trains with us will tell you that all we do is train the way we play. Maybe that's not tactical work, I don't know!"

Dier wasn't the only former Spurs player who is now at Bayern that Postecoglou was asked about.

The Australian was asked about England captain Harry Kane, and whether his time at Bayern will be judged by the number of trophies he wins, with the Bavarian giants surrendering the Bundesliga title to Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen.

"No, I don't think that's fair," Postecoglou replied.

"I'm not going to speak for Harry, for God's sake. But I don't think that's the only reason he left. I think he was pretty clear that he wanted a different experience and I think there's nothing wrong with that.

"That's been my whole career. He was at one club for a very long time. He was at a point where he either makes a decision to stay and become a one-club man, which is fair enough.

"Or he can experience something different as a footballer, maybe as a person. I don't know. These are questions for him. But I don't get this notion that he just moved just to win things.

"I don't think if he had stayed here he didn't think he was going to win things. I just think he wanted a different experience and he's getting that.

"I'm sure at the end of his career, if that was his reasoning behind it, he'll find that it does. It gives you a real broad experience about what football is about, what life is about.

"I don't think that's fair on him. Ultimately all these decisions you make about your personal career… I know every decision I've made in my career, it's very hard for other people sometimes to understand because they're not living my life. They're not with my family or with the people around me to know why you come to these decisions.

"They're very rarely around too many simplistic things. Most of the time there's a whole range of factors that you put into it."

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