Ange Postecoglou returned to his native Australia in a race against time. In four weeks, he will take charge of his first Premier League game and there is no shortage of puzzles for the new Tottenham boss to solve before then.
By his own admission, the greatest challenge is to alter the psyche of players accustomed to the cautious, counter-attacking styles of his predecessors. Within that, all manner of tactical shifts and changing personnel. At the heart of those, James Maddison, signed from Leicester for £40million to address the void of creativity at the team’s heart.