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Roberto de Zerbi spoke about a damaging defeat against Brentford on the opening matchday. Tottenham are trying to banish the demons of successive 17th placed finishes in the Premier League, so their 3-0 loss against the Bees at the GTECH Community Stadium certainly was not in the plans. ·‘We are not a team yet’ The physicality, intensity and organisation of the hosts has reflected their stable structure and the excellent work of Keith Andrews in the dugout. Meanwhile, Spurs are still struggling to establish a clear blueprint to move forwards, and de Zerbi suggested that this process will take time to bed in. “I think we are not a team yet. “For a lot of reasons. [On Friday] in the press conference, when you asked me what is the target, we can fix the target when you become a team. Before becoming a team, we can't say what we can do. “For sure, we are not in the right point in physical condition for a lot of reasons. For the players, they came late after the World Cup, because in Australia we couldn't work in the right way for the trip, don't take risk for a lot of things, but are not excuses. They are the normal situation when you are building a new project, a new process. I don't want time, but we have to pass through these problems. “A team, you can't become a team for the transfer market window, for the players, the new players, the paper, the player of the paper, no. You become teams with the players, they find the connection between them, they find the spirit, they find the soul, like I said yesterday, and it's a process. “For the plan, for the project, what the club wants and what we are, in the direction we are working, I think is the normal process. Even (though) we are suffering for the defeat, we are shocking for this defeat, especially for the way we lost the game. They deserve to win and we played very, very bad.”