Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp have been admiring each other from afar for years...
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00:00 He's an outstanding manager, he's one of these managers I think that,
00:03 fair to say, that has made an impact on the competition, not just his club.
00:08 He's a top, top, top coach and he enjoys what he's doing.
00:12 I mean, Jürgen sort of came to the league in the way they set up,
00:15 just the tempo intensity at which they played,
00:17 you know, both offensively and defensively, it was another level.
00:21 I mean, the Premier League's always been sort of a fairly high tempo league,
00:25 but I thought they took it to another level.
00:27 And, you know, at times it looked almost chaotic,
00:31 but you could see there was a plan behind it and it's very hard to cope with.
00:35 Tottenham's doing really well, Ante seems to be a top bloke.
00:39 Do you know him?
00:42 No, not yet. Looking forward to meeting him.
00:45 Pretty sure that everybody knew already when you saw Celtic playing in recent years
00:51 what kind of coach he is, how good he is as a coach,
00:53 and coming out to Tottenham, I think they were all desperate for some offensive football,
01:01 and he's delivering that, obviously, and in the year when Harry Kane left the club,
01:05 yeah, he's doing extremely well. They do extremely well.
01:10 I used to follow Dortmund, you could see back then,
01:12 it was very, very similar in the way they played.
01:14 Yeah, I could see it was an outstanding man, he won't remember it,
01:18 but he rang me to sort of back up Mitch, that he was a top keeper,
01:25 and no, he wasn't playing here.
01:26 And I thought, "Well, he obviously cares about his players,"
01:28 because he's reached out to me to make sure that I was aware,
01:31 and I was already aware that he was an outstanding keeper.
01:34 But, yeah, you could see he's invested in his players and the way they play.
01:40 Tottenham, in recent years, it was always said you played against
01:42 maybe the best counter-attacking team in the world.
01:44 Now it's much more possession-based, it's much more based on own ideas,
01:49 creative ideas, stuff like this.
01:52 He's a top, top, top coach and he enjoys what he's doing,
01:55 so they will have spent some time creating difficulties for us.
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