Here's what he had to say...
You're no doubt delighted that you have your new man, Sávio. Where do you feel you can improve him as a player? Tell us about the name change as well...
Roberto: "The most important thing is not to call Mathys Tel, Sávio. Savinho, Sávio, I understand. Ithink if you analyse the last season, I think as attackers, in attack position, we need players capable to win one-vs-ones, to create something, to create chances to score. It's not to score a goal, but in terms of one-vs-one, he's one of the best players, especially because he's 2004. He can play in the right side, in the left side. I know him from a long time. In Brighton, I spoke with him before he went to City. He's a big player for us, he's a big player, a big signing."
You mentioned the goalscoring isn't quite where it needs to be, can you apply that magic finishing touch?
Roberto: "I don't know if I'm the right man but for sure to improve he has to achieve that. I think the player is so good at one-vs-one, so good in creating chances to score, to be complete, he has to score. If you analyse the other best wingers in the world, many of them, they score 10-15 goals per season. He has the qualities. Maybe his habits, he has to change habits, because he has to be focused on the assists, the one-vs-one dribbling and also to score, because we have to increase the number of chances to score and the number of goals. You become a top team scoring more goals."
Predictor | How will we get on against Charlton?
How close are you to bringing another attacker in?
Roberto: "I don't know. It's not right to speak about the other players in the other teams. I think it's a crazy market, especially when the season has started. We are already close to the second game in the Premier League, but we have to adapt these rules and we accept these rules. We are working very well in the transfer market. I don't know if some players leave or not, some players come or not, but in this moment I think we are working very well. Just to speak also about the defeat of Brentford, I think we could play better, much better. We could do much better than we did, but in the end in our plan is a different Tottenham, no? I'm calm for that."
Team news? Is Sávio available for you? How is van de Ven?
Roberto: "Van de Ven comes on the bench, Pedro Porro comes on the bench, Solanke is available to play, to start the game. Sávio, I don't know if he's ready to play, if everything is good to play or to come on the bench, but I'd great to use Pedro Porro inside and Micky van de Ven inside of the squad."
Any others that weren't available?
Roberto: "No, because Kudus is not ready yet, Maddison suffered a small injury on the shoulder."
Sávio has been your plan A and it's taken quite a long time in the window. How do you stay patient when it's someone you want so much?
Roberto: "I am not patient. I have no patience, but I have to expect, because we started the negotiation for Sávio one week or three days after the Everton game. For many reasons we arrived in the last week of August to close Sávio, but I think you can close other players, but if you want the highest level, the highest quality of the players, it's right also to wait something, more than a normal player."
Is that maybe a difference at the club now, waiting for the right player rather than just going for a plan B or a plan C?
Roberto: "Always we have a Plan B or Plan C. But the players are not like smart phones. They're different, different personalities, different experiences, different characteristics, different potential also, because as (born in) 2004 Sávio is great also for the club, because I'm working for the club, don't forget I'm working for the club. All these players, they are not playing for the coach, they go to play for Tottenham, and Tottenham is more important than the coaches, the players and everything. So the policy of the club is clear, and now we have to be good like we have done to close this window for transfer market."
Speaking of young players, could we see Luca Williams-Barnett tomorrow?
Roberto: "He comes on the bench. Listen, my idea was to play with him as part of the second half in Brentford. Unfortunately it was not the right moment to put him from the bench, but I can't forget the young players. I have big respect for the Academy, and it's right, no gift, but it's right also for them, they deserve to have satisfaction from their young players, and these are potential big players for the club, first of all."
Did you speak to Xavi about his time playing with Savinho in PSV and if so what did he tell you?
Roberto: "They are very close as friends. They are two big players. I love this type of player. Xavi I think in the future will become very important for this club."
Andy Robertson made his debut on Saturday - what does he offer away from the pitch and in the dressing room?
Roberto: "I have a very good relationship with Andy. I think he is playing well. Normally, after a long time in the same club, and Liverpool, is not so easy for him to understand the environment, the new city, the new dressing room, the new coach, the new people inside, because the training ground is like home for the players. It’s like family. To change family or to change the training ground, dressing room is not so fast to understand. I believe in him as a player, as a guy. I want him to show his personality. We need his mentality as a winner because we have to get used to winning games and games and games. We have to change habits in the last two seasons."
What have you said to Lucas Bergvall after Saturday's performance?
Roberto: "I hug him and he knows. He already knows he didn’t play a great game. But this game for Bergvall, Gray, Mathys Tel, also Mikey Moore, is the right step to become better and better, because you want the young players on the pitch, yes, but the young players they have not experienced. What is their experience? To explain the experience you have to pass through this day, these types of games, and you have to lose or be stronger the next time you play one game, like Brentford. It’s a normal step. Maybe one or two together is better than four together but I know the reason because Bentancur came the first week of August, Mateus Fernandes suffered an injury, Pedro Porro was an injury, but all together it’s tough as a game. But when I said I am calm and positive it’s not because the coach has to say it’s positive. No, because it’s not the Tottenham true, yet. We have to find the conditions to become a team quickly and we started the project right now, not last season. Last season we fought to stay up and this season has started and to become better is not like this. Maybe, I hope, I want, I’m working for that but to become a team is different. We have to work in the connections, in the relationships, in the style of play, to find a soul as a team and we didn’t show any of these characteristics on Saturday."
Team Predictor | Who would you start against Charlton?
Dominic Solanke has had a lot of fitness problems since you were here and before, but how important can he be for you?
Roberto: "He is another important player, but we stay up with Richarlison last season. Richarlison also, I love him, but he has to play much better than Brentford. In Brentford, every one of us we made mistakes and we were wrong in the game. Me as the first always but for us, the number 10, especially when the opponent defend man-to-man, we need the striker to keep the ball, defend the ball and give us the time to go up, but Solanke is another very important player."
How do you value this competition and do you understand how important it is to the fans?
Roberto: "For me, it is like the Premier League. I can’t and we are not in the condition to make differences. There is a game, we have to play well and get used to winning the game and matches. And matches – not match. Matches - one, two, three and four. We have to change the mood and we can yes, because we already did last season. Six games, three wins, two draw and one defeat in Chelsea in the last six and I heard last season we can’t win the game because the last game we won was in December. Yes, I know but I think also the environment has to change and the players and people has to change this mentality. It is a challenge and when I said we have to become a team, I am speaking about this because the quality of the players we had already in Brentford enough for sure to play much better and do much better. I don’t know if to win, but to do much better - Archie Gray, JP van Hecke, Senesi, Robertson, Tonali, Lucas Bergvall, Gallagher, Richarlison, Mathys Tel, I think are good players, all of them."
You played Hoffenheim, but the last big game at the stadium was the Everton match (last game of last season) and you looked out at the fans in the South Stand, what did you think at that moment?
Roberto: "I have great memories about all last season. Six games, seven games but very, very important for me, and I remember very well everything. I am working now, keeping in my head what I felt last season, because anyway I came without responsibility for the what they did before, but if we are relegated last season, in this moment anyway I would work in Tottenham. For that now it is a big opportunity for us, for me, but I think when we are the Tottenham with the characters that I said, I think we can do something special. That I am sure."
