Ange Postecoglou press conference – Tottenham boss on injury news and summer transfers

The Tottenham Hotspur boss is speaking to the media on Friday afternoon ahead of the Premier League match against Burnley on Saturday

Ange Postecoglou is holding his press conference on Friday ahead of Tottenham Hotspur’s match against Burnley in the Premier League.

Spur welcome Vincent Kompany’s team to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday afternoon looking to end a disappointing run of four defeats on the bounce. The hosts need to win all three of their remaining matches and hope Aston Villa don’t pick up more than a point from their final two games if Ange Postecoglou’s men want to grab a spot in the top four in the Premier League’s final week.

Postecoglou has spoken a lot in recent days about the need for plenty of change in his Tottenham squad if they are to be a different side next season and the Australian could discuss the club’s summer transfer plans more at his press conference as he looks to overhaul the club and create a deeper squad.

The Spurs boss will also deliver updates on any fresh injuries that have impacted his squad since the defeat at Liverpool last weekend, having already lost all of his natural left-backs in recent weeks for the remainder of the campaign.

Our Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold is among those putting the questions to Postecoglou. Scroll down for his latest updates from the press conference at Hotspur Way.

We’ve got every single word the Tottenham Hotspur boss just said in a handy transcript and you can find all of that by heading right here.

Postecoglou on Oliver Skipp

We have been working with Skippy the last few weeks. When we lost Destiny and Ben, left with Emerson who is not really a left-back, we were looking around at options and in training we have been using him in that space. I thought he did well when he came on. The way we play with full-backs, certainly with some of the positioning, he wouldn’t be too unfamiliar with the positions he would need to take up. He is an option for us and I think we need another option because we have three games this week and we only have Emerson as a back-up full-back at the club.

(On Skipp being part of his plans) Yeah, I don’t see any reason why not. He probably feels like he could have played more this year. With the way the season has gone for us in terms of our games programme, he has probably been one of the ones who has suffered because we haven’t been able to get the game time rotations we need through the year. But yeah, I see Skippy as part of our future.

The Spurs boss on going to Buckingham Palace

We got an invite from the Australian government. Me and the other Aussies in the group, Mile [Jedinak], Scott [Munn], Charlie Grant from the women’s team. It was nice, a different experience. Just really inspiring because the people we met there work for charities, great causes, military people, people who are real heroes for society. They know who I am and come up and say hello, but just asking them about who they are and their life, you see so many fantastic people who do so much in communities, often without a lot of heralding from the wider public acknowledgement. I could see how happy they were to be there because finally there was some acknowledgement for them. Bizarrely enough, the sun was shining in London so we had a really nice afternoon

Yeah, but I didn’t get with 10 feet of the King and if I had of got closer I probably would have asked him about the Parthenon marbles and I would probably have got thrown out. It was nice for me and my wife. These are experiences you are just fortunate because of the position I hold, not necessarily who I am. What we try to do, my wife and I, is really immerse ourselves in it and just seeing the people in there and hearing their stories, the joy they have of being there, it’s significant for me and my wife seeing how significant it is for them. When you’re in that space it’s special. So yeah it was a good day.

Postecoglou asked what he’s learned about himself this season

Nothing too spectacular. I am who I am. I’ve resisted the notion to change the person I am. That’s not easy in the Premier League with the extra scrutiny.

Postecoglou on the Spurs rebuild

We’re going through challenges at the moment but I always believe they’re a constant in any sort of significant rebuild you’re going through. It’s how you approach them and tackle them. It’s about being as visible as possible in that process.

No fresh injuries

Postecoglou says that he will have the same players available for this game as he did for the previous one at Anfield.