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.

Ange Postecoglou says deadline-day signing Mathys Tel "will be a Tottenham player" next season, insisting: "I didn't bring him here for six months." Tel joined Spurs from Bayern Munich on loan until the end of the campaign, with an option for the club to make the deal permanent for £45.7million in the summer.

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.