Ange Postecoglou has praised new signing Mathys Tel for not wanting to be "pushed in a certain direction" after the forward initially stalled over a move to Tottenham.

Everybody’s seen the social media clips, the memes and heard the awkward interviews of Ange Postecoglou snapping at questions he has not liked, and yet Mathys Tel is the latest player to have fallen for the seductive telephone manner of the Tottenham Hotspur head coach.

The major story surrounding Bayern Munich and a handful of Premier League clubs on transfer deadline day was the future of Mathys Tel. The versatile French forw