It is always good for a player when a manager believes in you.
When you're a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.
It's been a massive confidence booster to know the managers picking you each game in a position where you're playing well. It gives you a lot of belief that you're doing the right things.
Pochettino's a great manager, and he puts a lot of trust in young English players.
I had a good time at Chelsea and was accepted in the team, so it's difficult to explain why I left. My performances were good as well, but there was a time in my second season when I felt I didn't have the manager's trust any more and I didn't play many matches from the start.
I got told I wasn't allowed to go on loan, which was a good thing but, at the same time, I just wanted to play matches. So do I annoy the manager and try to push for a loan or was I just to keep working hard and trust him?
I am happy to get the chance to play whenever I get the chance, and it is down to the manager's trust and the trust he has shown in me.
Coming back to Tottenham, you feel confident with these players and the manager - the way he talks to you and wants you to play.
Nobody at Liverpool questions the manager. Jurgen Klopp is a top, top manager.
Consistency, goals, and assists - that gets you confidence and puts the thought in the manager's head that he can't drop you.
That's the big thing for youngsters. When you go, you don't want a manager that's not going to have any trust in young players.
As a manager I always trusted my players on Christmas Day. I did not see any point in dragging them into the training ground - a three-hour round-trip for some of them on icy roads - when they could relax with their families instead.
