Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has told his players not to go seeking validation from social media.

Postecoglou was reacting to Ryan Sessegnon to his fans on social media to stop the criticism.

He said, "I guess the easy thing to say is 'just stay off social media' and that's easy for me to say and I can do that.

"But I guess for younger people it's a vehicle for them or a platform for them to have a voice which I kind of understand.

"But they've also got to be mature enough to also know that sometimes the audience … I think for want of a better term, social media is like walking into the prison yard and saying you're innocent. You're not going to get a hell of a lot of sympathy.

"Most of it is going to be coming back at you so if you're kind of prepared for that then [fine].

"But if you're jumping into there to try and feel good, my sense of it is, I'm not all over it but you'll rarely come away from it feeling really good about yourself, even with the most genuine of reasons for saying what you want to say or putting out what you want to put out.

"It's just that kind of platform you're invariably going to come away from thinking 'I probably shouldn't have said anything'."