Tottenham star admits he's formed a relationship of trust with Thomas Frank

The Tottenham Hotspur attacker has explained how the Dane has been helping him with his game and improving it this season

Wilson Odobert has praised Thomas Frank for improving his game and says he has built a relationship of trust with the Tottenham head coach.

After a first season at Spurs plagued by hamstring problems, the 21-year-old Frenchman has made 31 appearances during this campaign so far and contributed five assists and two goals. In recent weeks, Odobert appears to have found his confidence and grabbed three of those assists within back-to-back games against Borussia Dortmund and Burnley.

The winger, who has been playing on both the left and right flank of Frank's system as well as in one the two number 10 roles in the new 3-4-3 formation, has laid the praise for his improvements at the door of the Dane.

"We have a good relationship. He trusts me and I feel that trust. It's by having that close, trustable relationship that I'm able to feel freer out on the pitch and do things I'm capable of," Odobert said in an interview for Tottenham's matchday programme.

"We work a lot with the coach, we have a lot of videos, we all try to focus on our improvement and we work as much as we can to make things change.

"I think I have to keep improving, both as a player and as a person. It's true that in football we talk a lot about statistics at the moment, so I'm trying to improve those stats but, more than anything, to help the team and be someone who contributes to this team as much as possible.

"We know that we've been knocked out of the two domestic cup competitions, so in the Premier League we need to win as many matches as we can and get as high a position as possible in the table."

Odobert's performance against Dortmund was a key one and one of his best in a Tottenham shirt, with two assists, but he knows that he needs to build on nights like that.

"It was an important game for us," he said. "We had to give it everything, because we hadn't won for a little while to get that winning mentality back. It was a good performance from the team.

"But it was only one match and I'm not going to rest on my laurels. I want more, I want more for the team and I want more personally as well. But, right now, I'm focused on the team and getting better and getting the results we need. We're very aware we need to improve the results and make our fans happy."

Odobert came through the youth system at PSG before making the move to Troyes, part of the City Football Group, before getting a transfer to newly-promoted Premier League side Burnley to play under the now Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany. The winger would then earn the switch to Tottenham and has now passed half a century of appearances for the north London side and credits those years in Paris as key in his early development.

"I trained in the PSG youth system when I was young. I learned a lot both technically and tactically which has helped me become who I am today, so it was a really good experience," he explained. "When I arrived (in England), I was just a kid. I was discovering living abroad for the first time. I wasn't in my country. Of course, it was a bit difficult at the beginning, with the adaptation of the language and being away from my parents.

"But now I've settled in well and adapting well to English, to the Premier League. I think I'm maturing and have come a long way."