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Mauricio Pochettino has admitted he told Spurs chairman Daniel Levy the club must look to find the perfect blend between 'football and business' going forward.

After two transfer windows without bringing in a single player, Spurs smashed their transfer record with the £63m signing of Tanguy Ndombele from Lyon and also secured 18-year-old Leeds winger Jack Clarke for £9m before sending him back to United on loan for the season.

The club are expected to bring in more players before the window shuts on August 8 and Levy admitted after signing a new £354m shirt sponsorship deal with AIA in Shanghai this week that with the stadium now built it is time to start improving the squad.

Pochettino spoke about what he said to the chairman this summer when it comes to his group of players.

"I told Daniel to mix between football and business, it's so important to him is to see how he is going to help us to have the best squad," he said.

"But of course, as I said before, I am going to be happy with the team we are going to finish with at the end of the transfer market.

"He is in charge to do the best for the club. I am going to be focused and spend my energy on managing and coaching in the best possible way the squad I am going to have in my hands."

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Before the Champions League final, Pochettino had said that Levy was a different man to the one he started out on his Tottenham journey with.

Pochettino was asked whether Spurs as a club has also changed since that day in June when they came so close to 'touching the glory', in the manager's words, in Madrid.

"I am always going to back what Daniel is going to do. Of course, I have contract with Tottenham and when I signed my contract I accepted all the conditions," he said.

"In the last five years the reality is that he was great at building a fantastic training ground, fantastic stadium. The problem sometimes is explaining the real situation to outside.

"Last year, in the same situation as today, they say we have money but Pochettino does not want to sign. It’s not like this. We wanted to sign the right players.

"Now this season I think the club is going to be free. We are not going to misunderstand between us.

"Of course they have the responsibility to build the best team to provide us because I am going to be happy with the squad we have to manage and going to be brave to try to win and fight for big things."