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Alasdair Gold

Pochettino reveals what he told Spurs chairman Daniel Levy about transfers on flight to Asia

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino admits he was chatting about transfers with his chairman Daniel Levy on the flight to Singapore.

Spurs are in Asia for their International Champions Cup matches against Juventus in Singapore on Sunday and Manchester United in Shanghai on Thursday.

After two transfer windows without any purchases, the club have smashed their record with the £63m transfer of Tanguy Ndombele from Lyon as well as signing Jack Clarke for £9m from Leeds before loaning him back for the season.

Kieran Trippier has also left the club to join Atletico Madrid in a deal which could eventually be worth £25m and Danny Rose has been left out of the tour squad to talk to other clubs about a move.

When asked if he wants more new signings, Pochettino said on Friday that he will be happy with whatever his chairman delivers this summer.

"I told Daniel during the flight from London that I will be happy with the squad that you are going to provide me to work with," he said.

"I'm always happy. I'm a happy man, working with 25 players, always. We are going to have 25 players to work with. Always I was happy and I'm going to be happy. That is my nature."

Pochettino also spoke about Rose as well as forgotten men Vincent Janssen and Georges-Kevin Nkoudou.

"Danny is still our player and of course for different reasons Nkoudou and Vincent Janssen they deal with the club, with Daniel the issues to take a little bit of time to fix different problems but personal problems that they need to sort," he said.

"After ten days after we play Man United and Juventus when we come back to London if they are there, they are going to be in a normal way with the team."

He added on Trippier: "It was Kieran’s decision. He communicated the day before we travelled here and he told me that he accept an offer from Atletico Madrid and it was the club who communicated with me that they had agreed a deal, I wasn't involved in this discussion in the last week."

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