Roberto De Zerbi’s early training sessions at Tottenham Hotspur have been ‘really positive’ so far as he prepares to face Sunderland.
Last week, Tottenham confirmed the appointment of De Zerbi as manager as they look to remain in the Premier League.
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Tottenham threw the kitchen sink at De Zerbi to convince him to join, and now the Italian has seven games to make sure the North London club beats the drop.
The Italian manager has already had one week to work with some of his players in training, and there have been plenty of positive noises coming out of Hotspur Way.
Roberto De Zerbi’s first Tottenham training session have been ‘really positive’
Roberto De Zerbi’s first Tottenham Hotspur training session have been ‘really positive’, according to Alasdair Gold.
The 46-year-old looks to be really hands-on in training and even tries to get involved in training sessions with the players.
Speaking to Talking Tottenham, Gold said: “Training sessions early on have been really positive. You know, I was about to say, I’ve been fortunate to cover this club for a decade. I don’t know if it’s fortunate or mad or what it is, but certainly it’s been a long time.
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“Over that time, obviously, you build up a lot of links with players, people around players, people around training sessions, everything. The word so far has been really positive. We kind of knew this was going to be the case anyway.”
Everyone is now back in N17 and getting to work with the new manager ahead of this weekend’s clash against Sunderland.
De Zerbi will take his first press conference ahead of the trip to the Stadium of Light on Friday afternoon.
Tottenham players are loving Roberto De Zerbi’s training style
Tottenham players have also been loving how De Zerbi has been trying to coach each player individually.
The Spurs journalist said: “One of the things that I’ve been hearing out of Spurs from people around the players, and also just people that work in the building as well, is that the big thing that the players have really liked about De Zerbi so far is that they feel like they’re being coached individually as well.
Rather than just trying to fit each player into his system, the Italian has been working with most players and trying to mould them into better players.
“It’s like, sometimes people come in with an overall philosophy, and it’s about that system. You work with this system, you do this, you do that, this is what I want,” added Gold.
“Whereas with him, there’s an element of that, but there’s also an element of, here’s what I want you to be like as a player, what I believe you can do.”
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