MELBOURNE, Australia — Tottenham captain Son Heung-Min said on Tuesday that there is “so much room for improvement” after Ange Postecoglou’s first year at the club and that players will take responsibility for stepping up.
Son and his teammates flew into Postecoglou’s hometown of Melbourne on Tuesday morning for a post-season friendly against fellow Premier League side Newcastle United on Wednesday, with an 80,000-strong crowd expected at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
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Spurs finished the season in fifth place and secured a Europa League berth with a 3-0 win over Sheffield United on the final day of the campaign, ending a one-year absence from European competition.
However, Son acknowledged that there was plenty of scope for improvement in year 2 of Postecoglou’s tenure.
“We’ve been talking about this quite a lot, after [Ange’s] first season and obviously, we could do so much better,” Son told reporters in Melbourne.
“We see that but I think we look forward. [The season is] gone and we should learn that there’s so much room for improvement.
“Next season will be so much better and the players will take responsibility for being [able to] step up and be disciplined.
“Where we finish, it’s because of us. Not anyone else. So we need to think about it and for next season, we can’t make the same mistakes.”
