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Mauricio Pochettino joked that he left new right-back Serge Aurier with no doubt about what he would do if he repeated his off-the-field antics at Tottenham Hotspur.

Spurs signed the 24-year-old in a £23m deal from PSG on transfer deadline day and while the Ivory Coast international comes with plenty of talent, he also arrives with more baggage than simply his suitcases.

Aurier has been involved in a number of controversies and received bans from football in recent seasons. He was also convicted for assaulting a police officer, a charge he is appealing and the club had to wait to see whether the Home Office would allow him a visa to work in the UK after he was denied entry last season for PSG's Champions League match at Arsenal.

In February last year Aurier held a 45-minute Q&A session with fans on Periscope and managed to insult his PSG manager Laurent Blanc, striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, midfielder Angel Di Maria, defender Gregory van der Wiel and goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu.

When a viewer asked whether Blanc engaged in oral sex with Ibrahimovic, he replied: "He takes everything" before calling the manager a derogatory term for a homosexual.

Pochettino was asked what he made about those comments and if he'd spoken about them with Aurier.

“I said to him, ‘I'd kill you'. I'd headbutt him," the Spurs boss joked.

Pochettino wanted to get his own view of the player, rather than take advice from others.

“I always try to feel what the player translates to you when you have a conversation and you meet," he said. "It’s more important, the feeling that you get from people.”

He added: "I had a long chat with him. And I explain how we are, how I am, what I expect from him. And the commitment from him. But not only from him, the same conversation that we have with all the players before signing.

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"We are so clear. And then, the confusion can arrive after. Because some people forget what we spoke, one year ago, like this. We are so clear and we try to not change in our position. And then, to be clear with them, when they need us to be clear.”

“With Serge Aurier, we were clear, and then if some issues happen in the future, we will see. But I trust in him and he needs to show we can trust, from today.”

Aurier comes with plenty of titles under his belt, won in France, and will bring a winning mentality with him to the Lilywhites.

“Yes, it’s true, in a different country. Because France is completely different, at Paris Saint Germain, who are ahead of all of the clubs in France. But it’s true that he is a very good profile," explained Pochettino.

"He’s so powerful. It’s true that a lot of things happened in his career, in the past, but I think it’s important to give the possibility to the player to change, to improve and to learn, it’s so important. His profile is very good for us."