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Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou is full of admiration for Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta, but fails to see many similarities between the pair.<\/p>\n
Postecoglou\u2019s youthful Spurs side face the biggest test of his early reign on Sunday when they make the short trip to the Emirates for the first north London derby of the season.<\/p>\n
Second-placed Tottenham travel across the capital in high spirits but face an Arsenal team that are into a fifth season under Arteta, who also took over a club in the doldrums and has overseen a cultural change from top to bottom.<\/p>\n
While Postecoglou is at the start of the same type of rebuilding job at Spurs, he poked fun at suggestions he is alike his 41-year-old opposite number.<\/p>\n
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He said: \u201cI think Mikel has been outstanding, really strong right from the start by having a real vision for the football club and the club\u2019s backed him, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s unique.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Liverpool did the same with Jurgen (Klopp). Most clubs that end up having a successful period do it on the back of having a really clear idea of what they\u2019re trying to create.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only problem is that a lot of clubs jump at shadows at the first sign of things not progressing at the rate they were hoping to. Credit to Arsenal and credit to Mikel that they backed each other and they\u2019re reaping the rewards of it but that\u2019s not a blueprint for us to follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got our own blueprint. You don\u2019t have to follow anyone else\u2019s timescale, you don\u2019t have to follow anyone else\u2019s processes. What you\u2019ve got to do is have a clear idea about what you want and provided along the way you see progress, stick to it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a lot of threads I can sort of join between us<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of similarities, I\u2019m 58, he\u2019s whatever (41). I\u2019ve had 26 years, he\u2019s five years into it. He\u2019s managed in one country, I\u2019ve managed in a few. I\u2019m not sure how he\u2019s got a great head of hair!<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a lot fitter than I am. I don\u2019t know, there\u2019s not a lot of threads I can sort of join between us. I wouldn\u2019t say we\u2019re opposites.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re different. Even in the way his team plays. Yes he does have a very attacking philosophy but it\u2019s different from mine and that\u2019s the beauty of the game. That\u2019s what you love about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s why you can\u2019t copy. If you\u2019re an artist and you see a Picasso, yeah you can copy it, but it\u2019s not going to be a Picasso is it? It\u2019s the same with football.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see that somebody does something really well, but don\u2019t bring your own personality into it. I have great admiration for the way he\u2019s gone about things and how he\u2019s stuck to his beliefs. It\u2019s a credit to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Postecoglou did not claim to have any type of personal relationship with Arteta, but he did reveal a time when he got to view the Spaniard up close.<\/p>\n
The former Celtic boss watched Manchester City training not long after he was appointed manager at Yokohama, who are part-owned by the City Football Group.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent a week at City when I first got the Yokohama job because they were part of the group and were generous enough to invite me in,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t speak to anyone but I observed training and you could see then how passionate Mikel was about the game and that he was itching to get going and become a manager himself.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe\u2019s had a different journey but he\u2019s made the impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I keep saying, there\u2019s no real defined way to get here.\u201d<\/p>\n