Hello and welcome to The Vusion the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook.

I'm joined again today by James Moore and Charlie Ackleshare.

Charlie has just made it down here to our studio from the Tottenham training ground where he's been at Jose Marino's press conference.

Charlie, how was he?

He was all right, yeah.

I think I'm trying to see the positives from the weekend,

reasonably engaging,

especially when the topics were kind of not Harry Kane or transfers,

which he's been asked about a lot of late.

But yeah, no, he was on decent form.

Do you sense he was more positive after the weekend even though they lost?

Yeah, I think so. I mean, the way the question was phrased to him was suggesting that it was a

positive thing and that the fans are taking the positives and we'll get on to the extent to which

that's true. But I think he does feel

there were positives to be taken taken from the game, yeah. And you asked him about formation, is that

right? Yeah, so this has been a bit of a recurring theme, I think, since he took over that he has

been willing to engage on this sort of topic.

And actually I asked him about something last week and had a bit of a you moment.

You know, I felt like a bit of a fanboy.

But I asked a question and he said, I like the question.

That's actually what I would have asked to sort of butter me up to then slap me down by saying, but I can't answer that question. So it was a classic kind of give with one hand take with the other. And so on that occasion, that was about, you know, how they set up without Kane and whether that would be any different. Today I asked him about he's kind of switched between a back three and a back four, which thinks been quite interesting. And he's been quite flexible on that.

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