Postecoglu on Son form and facing Fulham (Full Presser part 3)
Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglu on the form of Heung Min Son as they prepare to face Fulham
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00:00 You said midweek that you struggled to train because of a recording problem, but you felt a lot of obligation and responsibility to play because you put yourself in his hands.
00:12 He's obviously such a selfless guy, he's going to put himself before the team, or put the team before himself on every occasion.
00:19 Is he experienced enough to handle that for himself and know when to play, or is there any sense that you need to occasionally say to him,
00:25 "Hold on Sonny, you're doing good, you might need to have some time off"?
00:30 As long as he's still scoring goals, I don't care, mate. He doesn't have to train, he doesn't have to do anything.
00:35 I think he scored six goals, he scored for Carrera on the weekend.
00:39 Sonny is who he is, and he's got to where he is because of the person he is, and I'm certainly not going to change any part of that, mate.
00:48 Because you take all these things in context. Sometimes we want to change people, but we don't understand that the thing that's brought them to where they are is because of the people they are.
01:01 So I'm not changing anything in Sonny. If anything, you can learn from people like that.
01:08 That's the beauty of me being in the position I am. You come across different people every time you go along this journey, and you learn from all of them.
01:19 The way he takes on the responsibility of not just his whole nation, and he takes it very seriously, I think it's commendable.
01:27 It's beyond commendable. It's great where we've seen, we've had evidence of players who go the other way with fame and fortune, lose their way a little bit.
01:42 But he's still very, very grounded, and he knows what's important to him, and that is his country, his football club, his career.
01:50 In terms of his physical wellbeing, he's well looked after here. He knows his body well, and he'll continue to perform at the highest level.
02:02 You have made the decision to take him, I think, Madison off in games where you're chasing a goal. I think Liverpool is one example. I'm not sure every manager would necessarily do it the same way. How key do you feel that responsibility is in the path of the player's wellbeing?
02:22 I made the substitution because I wanted to win the game, mate. That's what we end up doing.
02:26 I'm not looking after players, so I'm trying to win games of football. And if I think making a substitution will help us do that, I don't care who it is, we'll do that.
02:34 It doesn't matter whether that's Madders or Sonny or anyone else. We're looking to win games. I've said before, that's what I love more than anything else, is winning games.
02:45 So whatever decision needs to be made, I'm happy to make that decision. In the games we've had so far, we just needed different things, different games, and try and get a sense of what that may be.
02:58 Depending on who we've got available to come on, you make those kind of decisions. I haven't been looking after them in any sense.
03:08 The players know that they give maximum, and sometimes that maximum is 70 minutes in a game of football. That's fine. I'm more than happy with that.
03:16 We'll bring somebody on for the last half hour and go from there.
03:19 Cool. Thank you very much.
03:20 Thank you.
03:21 (chewing)
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