Mauricio Pochettino: If we beat Man City then the music will be blaring out

Mauricio Pochettino says the music will blare out from the away dressing room at the Etihad Stadium if Tottenham Hotspur beat Manchester City and bring to an end their Premier League record-breaking run of 15 successive victories.

The Spurs manager added that he had no problem with City’s post-match celebrations, which so angered Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho last weekend, and explained that it was normal practice to play loud music and his players will do so if they “kill” Pep Guardiola’s side.

“I am never going to complain if another team celebrate because sometimes it's good, when you lose, and you hear all that happens in another changing room, it's good to feel the pain,” Pochettino said.

“With respect of course, because it's always about respect but sometimes it's good to listen. If we run more, and we play better and we care more... come on maybe we need to translate that feeling to the opposite changing room.”

Pochettino added: “When we won our games, like was in Huddersfield, or like was in Wembley against Stoke, the players put music and it's so loud... it's normal, if you lose the game, you are not going to put music. But…they are winning, winning, winning, it's normal they put music in the changing room.”

The music was loud again at the Liberty Stadium in midweek, when City brushed aside Swansea City 4-0, and could be heard in the press room as the managers spoke afterwards. It is becoming a feature of City’s season with Pochettino accepting there is an “aura” about them.

“I agree with you in terms of the aura,” he said. “For us, we felt the same last season at White Hart Lane – that something special happened around the team. I think it was a player a week or two ago that said ‘Wow, I remember last season, we always start 1-0 up at White Hart Lane because something special was happening’. And for the opponent, it was tough to play against us. But now, of course, City are doing fantastic. But… we're going there to fight, to kill them and try to win.”

Spurs, in fourth place, trail leaders City by 18 points with Pochettino explaining that – right now – it is difficult to compete because his club is “in a completely different way” with the focus on building the new stadium. After they move in they can be judged and “blamed” if they do not win trophies.

Right now, Pochettino said, it is about trying “to be competitive, to try to play Champions League, to try to fight with the big sides like City, United, that they in the end don't care what to spend, if you can win.

“But, for us, it's completely different and I think it's not fair to compare the club, not myself, I don't put myself like a victim, it's only to say this is what the club is doing. And maybe in a few years is the moment say ‘aye, come on, the club now need to win and need to compete’ and with the same tools as another big club.

That is the moment to say 'compare', 'compare with another club', but today it's completely unfair that the people, the media is going to compare Tottenham with this type of club like Manchester City, United or Chelsea.”

The tension for Spurs will be to try and convince players to stay until they are on a more level-playing field – with the likes of Kyle Walker, for example, having already left for City for £53million in the summer.

“Maybe some players are not agreed with this strategy, and of course they are right to complain, to talk and in the end to move or have another challenge for different reasons, because we are all different and we all have different challenges, motivations, roles in our life. That is normal,” Pochettino said.

There have been “some conversations with people from the coaching staff” following his angry response to Guardiola’s description, back in October, of Spurs as “the Harry Kane team”.

“It was a thing that happened in that moment,” Pochettino said. “I admire Pep… My idea as a manager… I think he is one of the managers I am more close to in football.”