Toby Alderweireld confident positive Ryan Mason can deliver silverware

It has only been a matter of days but, to Toby Alderweireld, it is already plain. After the turbulence of the Jose Mourinho era, the reservations about his style that built to a tipping point, Tottenham have gone back to the future with the appointment of Ryan Mason. âYou can see the similarities between Ryan and Mauricio Pochettino, how he wants to train, how his sessions are, Alderweireld says. It feels very familiar. He will bring his own view of football and his own ideas but we can see the similarities, for sure.

Everyone knows he played at Spurs under Pochettino, he has a lot of ideas from him and we only can agree that's very good. Everyone was performing very well under Pochettino and so Ryan's mind in football is positive it's going forward and everyone is seeing his ideas. Even though it's quite early, it'ss a positive vibe he brings.

It is often the case in football and certainly during Daniel Levy's 20-year chairmanship at Spurs that when a managerial change is made, the new man is a reaction to the old one. Levy, for example, has bounced from Glenn Hoddle to David Pleat to Jacques Santini; from Juande Ramos to Harry Redknapp to Andre Villas-Boas.

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