Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglu jokingly hits out at criticism of his style from former Liverpool defender turned pundit Jamie Carragher
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00:00Would you be more inclined to listen to the opinion of someone like Arnie Slott rather than a certain former Liverpool defender who's telling you you've got to change, even though you've got 10 players out and you've just won 4-3?
00:11Jamie Carragher, mate. You can name him. He'll enjoy that. People tell me he likes me, so that's a good thing. They tell me, I just hear what he said, but he likes you as a person. I go, oh, that's important to me.
00:25Look, it's all valid, but I don't need validation from anybody to do what I do. Whether you agree with my approach or not, there's validity in both, and I don't have an issue with that.
00:40I love the fact that people are talking about our games and analysing our games. I think that's important as well for this football club. I'd rather that than us being anonymous and no-one talking about us, or we just grinding out in existence.
00:56I like the fact that, as I've always said, you've got to be prepared for scrutiny, you've got to be prepared for criticism. It's how you react to that that's more important.
01:06I don't think one is any less credible than the other in many respects. What I'm saying is I don't need validity either way. It won't change what I believe, because what I believe is born from a lifetime of experiences and values that I won't let anyone tamper with from the outside.
01:31I've said before, whether it's Jamie or anyone else scrutinising or criticising our approach, that's healthy, because to me, how you react to that is much more important than that itself.
01:50Because if you're going to jump at every time, then that kind of tells me we don't really have a lot of belief in this building about what we're doing, if we're always going to worry about what he's saying, or we need somebody to say a good thing, or somebody always said a bad thing.
02:03I think it's healthy if it's coming from the right sort of place. I think someone like Jamie, he's there to give his opinion. He's not going to stand there and say, well, actually, I've got nothing to say. He's going to give an opinion.
02:17Some of the other stuff that I don't understand, because I think it's just about getting some headlines. But again, if you react to that, then it kind of says more about yourself than anything else.