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Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has admitted that he has not been in his best mood this season with all the difficulties the campaign has brought so far.

The Argentine signed a big new five-year deal in May but has had to deal with a flood of problems ever since.

This season has thrown plenty at Pochettino and his coaching staff in just a couple of months - no new signings over the entire summer, no departures, late-returning players from the World Cup, new stadium delays, a drink-driving captain, lacklustre performances and injuries to a plethora of key players.

While the Champions League results have been disappointing, Tottenham are just two points off second-placed Manchester City, who they play on Monday night at Wembley, thanks to seven wins in nine Premier League matches.

When asked how he had felt about the opening couple of months of the season, Pochettino was honest about his emotions.

"The season so far, it’s strange because my feeling is the worst feeling I've had in the five years that I've been here. It’s the worst. My feeling, but it's the best start ever for the club in the Premier League. It’s strange, no?" said the Tottenham manager.

"This season, my feeling is the worst. I don’t know, it’s so difficult to explain, because the circumstance, because many things happen, I am disappointed we are still waiting for the new stadium when the expectation was to be there at the beginning of the season.

"I don’t know, many things happened in the summer, many things that make myself not in my best mood or best humour. I know I always have a good relationship with you [the media], but my feeling is not the best feeling, I had better feelings in previous seasons."

Pochettino is looking forward to the future however and a time when the club can focus purely on trying to win titles.

"We were talking about establishing a new stadium, to be focused with the only priority to win games," he said. "The circumstance that happened in the last years, I think the club is not focused completely in winning titles or winning games.

"We have a lot of focus and you know very well when you are competing with sides like we are in Champions League and Premier League, the most important thing is to fight in the same conditions as others.

"Today, we spend a lot of energy in many things. One is to win games, but it's not the priority is not to win games. For us, yes. But the club need to be all focused in trying to win titles. Because today we need to fix other problems and different circumstances that happen that don’t help the team or the club to only be focused on winning titles.

"Sometimes people expect that we should be winning or we must win titles when the circumstances are not ideal."

The Spurs boss hopes that the club will become a powerhouse when it finally moves into the new stadium, but he is well aware the ground will still have to be paid off.

" I don’t have the answer how we are going to act when we are going to move there," he said. "It is easy to see in the last few years how we act in front of the market, how we act in front of everything and how the other teams were acting. That is the difference.

"Everything is not perfect but we are in a circumstance and a project that is completely different to another club, at the moment.

"But maybe when we arrive to the new stadium in the future, we will be in the same project, or we are going to act the same as other teams are acting like Liverpool, City, United, Chelsea and Arsenal."

He added: "That is my wish and I hope for the club, for the fans, for everyone to be available to fight in the same condition as the other clubs.

"You will only really know if you are good enough or not when you fight with the same conditions as other teams. If not, it’s difficult to see if you are good enough.

"The way we have been competing in the last few years, the frustration is massive because we have had less in every single aspect. When you are there it’s not enough to win or to achieve the level that you want.

"That is the most important thing because I wish and I hope for the future for everyone that we will be available as a club to be in the same condition as others and to show our real skills."

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