No one at Spurs is getting carried away and Villas-Boas accepts his team are a work-in-progress, even if he agrees that the squad are stronger than last season. “We have a style of player but we have to work on it with these players, which we haven’t had time to do,” he said. “All of our games that we’ve played, we’ve trained and recovered. At the moment we still have to put together a team that can work.”