Pochettino's belief is the key to success

It is good to hear a youngster speak to the press before a game because they are not so experienced giving meaningless answers to their questions and you can occasionally hear some useful and informative remarks.

"We want both things and I’m sure we can achieve our target. That is what big clubs and good teams want. 
“There is a winning spirit now. Of course, you always want to win but there are ways of doing it, ways to prepare. We train very hard, and that is where everything starts."

When you listen to Nabil Bentalebs remarks and Mauricio Pochettino you really get a sense of a long-term plan, a journey they are on to achieve the clubs aims. Today everything is referred to as a project and as Bentaleb points out, hard work is a beginning and trophies are a part of the long-term aim.

"I am sure that in the end we achieve something important. Maybe in six months, maybe in one year, or maybe in two years. 
"But I am sure that the club, in the end, will achieve a very important trophy."

Well the project Mauricio Pochettino has embarked upon is massive, long running and far reaching. It involves an overhaul of staff, philosophy, playing style and belief, a reduction on the reliance of a cheque book.

If you don't think you can win, you can't. If you don't believe you can achieve something, you can't. With any leader, belief, total and utter belief is the biggest asset, the biggest commodity, the biggest skill, if it can be called that, they have. You can't learn it, it's a feeling, you either have it or you don't, when you find the right project for you, you'll just know.

To achieve anything major in life like a new business or a new management post, it can be seen in similar terms, then every expert, anybody who has has major achievement will tell you to break down the big aim into a series of small aims. Each one is a brick or step nearer the overall goal.

Total belief allows your subconscious to solve problems and put them in your conscious, it's up to you then to act on them to achieve. Most people don't act, they procrastinate and thus they don't achieve anything. Without that initial total belief though, your subconscious will not give you the answers because you won't be automatically setting it the puzzles to solve.

Mauricio Pochettino will have approached Tottenham in the same way. He will have analysed everything and have an end goal. Rome wasn't built in a day the saying says and Tottenham isn't going to be built in a day or a single transfer window. Sometimes you have to take things apart to reassemble them so they work better than they did before.

I'm delighted Pochettino has come out and told the press what has been clear to some of us all along, he's here for a while to build something that matches the clubs long term plans.

"I have enjoyed my four months at Tottenham. We knew when we signed for Tottenham that we expected a tough period. 
"We are in a very tough period in the club, but when you arrive to a club with big potential like Tottenham, a big club, and have the possibility to build something important, this is a very good challenge for us. 
"It is impossible for me to speak about previous managers, the previous philosophies, previous ideas. 
"Two seasons ago, Gareth Bale was here and the club sold him for £100million – now he is not here, there’s no Luka Modric and I don’t know. 
"Now it is different. The club is different – the club takes another way. I have a clear idea from the club, from the board, and I agree and we need to build something special and Tottenham want to build something special."

Daniel Levy has been searching for the right man, he has had managers to bring us up from mid-table, managers who build teams for now but with no long-term future and managers who shoot themselves in the foot.

The right man was always going to and is going to get time to put the clubs vision into practice. It's early days to suggest Mauricio Pochettino is that man but Daniel Levy clearly thinks so. He had to find a manager who would take the club through the stadium building period on a limited budget, changing managers wouldn't be an option.

The set-up looks like we are taking the same approach Arsenal took, build from within, and the approach Chelsea are taking, buy youth and loan it out. The appointment of Steffen Freund suggests that, you don't appoint someone like Freund into the post he now has if there is no long-term plan to see it's importance grow.

Both on and off the field the building work has begun, it's total belief that will see it produce results.