Wolfsburg defender Moritz Jenz has hailed Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou, admitting he developed a different mindset under the Australian at Celtic.
The centre back has been speaking about his former manager, who he worked with at Celtic, in a conversation with Kicker.
Postecoglou is currently the rising managerial star of the Premier League after guiding Tottenham to the top of the table in the first games of the campaign.
He arrived in the summer from Celtic to replace Antonio Conte and has been an instant hit, establishing an exciting, attacking brand of football that has quickly won over fans and pundits alike.
He’s very much continuing where he left off at Celtic, where he arrived as a relative unknown from Yokohama FM and spent the next two years dominating Scottish football, winning 83 of his 113 games in charge and leaving with a points per game tally of 2.31.
Jenz only made 19 appearances under the Tottenham coach at Celtic Park but was extremely impressed by him, nonetheless.
“At Celtic I developed a different mindset and became even more professional,” he said.
“(Postecoglou is) a football genius. He always wants to dominate, no matter what the opponent. You don’t have many conversations.
“He told me what he wanted to see from me, that he trusted me. I knew exactly that he was counting on me, he helped me a lot.”
That opinion was something he shared with defender Micky van de Ven, who made the switch from Wolfsburg to Spurs this summer and has starred under Postecoglou since.
“You,” he told him, “fit his system perfectly,” a statement which appears to have been extremely correct.
