Ange Postecoglou is excited about the role "leader" James Maddison will play in helping implement his style of football at Tottenham.
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Maddison completed a transfer worth STG40 million ($A77 million) plus add-ons to Spurs last month after five years with Leicester where he won the FA Cup and scored 55 goals in 203 appearances.
England midfielder Maddison had been tracked by Tottenham since he was a teenager at Coventry and officially begins work with the club on Wednesday when the next group of international players, including Harry Kane, return.
His new boss feels the playmaker will be key to the sizable task of getting a squad accustomed to pragmatic, counter-attacking football now in sync with the aggressive, possession-based style set to be used by the Australian.
Postecoglou said: "Really excited to get James as part of the group.
"Any manager will tell you that part of the key to being a dominant team is having multiple attacking threats and having a midfielder who can score and create goals.
"They're not easy to come by. He's proven himself at that level in the last few years as somebody who can do that.
"When you look at Tottenham the last few years, they've been really reliant on the front three to get their goals.
"I thought it was a really good fit for us to look for a player like James - even better if we could get James, so we ended up getting James."
Postecoglou held his first press conference since switching Celtic for Spurs on Monday and struck the right chord between confidence alongside realism.
Tottenham finished eighth in the Premier League last season - using three different head coaches - but more significantly have spent the last four years playing counter-attacking football.
Gradually it wore down a disgruntled fanbase impatient for success with no trophy since 2008 and while a return to an aggressive, front-foot style will be welcomed, Postecoglou is aware rebooting a squad used to a certain way will be no mean feat.
He added: "Absolutely that will be the biggest challenge and that's what I'm concentrating on at the moment.
"We don't have the whole group here but the guys we have, it's about changing that mindset and changing the way the players see the game and maybe their roles within in.
"Because even with the positions they play, there's going to be adjustments in how I want them to do things. Again, I love that. That's why I'm here."
Spurs, meanwhile, have announced the signing of attacker Manor Solomon on a free transfer.
Spurs moved to bring former Fulham loanee Solomon to the club after he was able to cancel his deal with Shakhtar Donetsk.
The diminutive winger has agreed a five-year contract with Tottenham after he returned to the country from holiday last weekend and passed his medical on Monday.
Australian Associated Press
