Three years ago, having been shown the door by Feyenoord, Vincent Janssen was considering giving up on football altogether.

At the age of just 19, the only offer he had was from second tier Almere City, who averaged crowds of barely over 1,000.

'When you play in the Dutch second division, it's not like you can live off that for your whole life,' Spurs new striker explained from the club's pre-season tour in Melbourne.

Tottenham's summer signing Vincent Janssen described joining the club as the 'right choice'

Janssen is currently in Australia with the Tottenham squad ahead of their friendly with Australia

Tottenham fans are due to get their first glimpse of new striker against Juventus on Tuesday

'I said to myself: "I'm going to invest, I'm going to try it one more time" and I got a really good club, a really good coach and pushed myself.'

Pushed himself is an understatement. At Almere, Janssen flourished, plundering 32 goals in 74 games across two sparkling seasons.

From there came a switch to AZ Alkmaar, a sweet hat-trick against those Feyenoord doubters, 27 goals in 34 games and now, a £18.5m move to White Hart Lane.

It is some rise for a man who scored against England at Wembley on his first Holland start in March.

'It's gone crazy fast,' Janssen admitted. 'For myself, I always trusted myself. I said I'm going for it and if it doesn't work I can say I did everything. It went very well at Almere and I could make my step in two years.'

The 22-year-old marked his first start for Holland with a goal in their victory over England in March

When the time came to leave Alkmaar came there was only one destination for Janssen, who lists Spurs old boys and fellow Dutchmen Edgar Davids and Rafael van der Vaart as heroes.

'From my first conversation with the trainer it was very good,' he said.

'For me the choice was an easy one. I told myself when I had choices that I would only pick the one that was 100 per cent. And for me Tottenham was 100 per cent the right choice.'

Not that Pochettino is his only inspiration – mum Annemarie is a famous Dutch swimmer who picked up three Olympic medals.

And it was to her, and his father, whom he turned to during those dark days after Feyenoord showed him the door.

The £18.5million former AZ Alkmaar forward joined Spurs in July and hopes to make an immediate impact

'Mum always said to me football is easy because swimmers train twice a day every day,' Janssen joked. They have to swim at 6 in the morning and that's a big difference to footballers, of course. But she gave me a lot of discipline, like how to handle being a top sportsman: sleep early, eat well and all of that stuff. My father as well. They were good teachers for me.'

Meanwhile, Pochettino, whose side take on Juventus at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday, has ruled out taking over the vacant Argentina role.

His homeland have been without a coach since Gerardo Martino sensationally quit following the country's defeat to Chile in the Copa America final earlier this month.

Pochettino had been linked with the post, but dismissed the notion.

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino (centre right) has ruled himself out of the running for the Argentina job

'I think the speculation is normal because I am an Argentinian coach at a top club in England,' he said.

'There a lot of rumours that appear in the media but I am happy at Tottenham and for that reason this is not the right moment.'