Dier has studied Busquets delivering numerous passes of similar quality for Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar on his iPad on to which Pochettino's team of analysts download videos for his players to watch and learn from.

As well as working hard on the defensive side of his game, Dier will also join attacking midfielder and close friend Dele Alli in serving up balls for the strikers in training as a way of practising his range of passing.

Like so much of the work that goes on at Spurs, this is not a random exercise of players floating ‘Hollywood’ passes to be smashed into the net. Dier will take up particular angles and match positions before trying to pick out Harry Kane and co.

So it should not be a shock that Dier, rather than captain Wayne Rooney, has completed more successful passes than any other England player at the Euros.

Dier found his target 210 times in England’s three group games while Rooney completed 135 successful passes and Gary Cahill 134. The 22-year-old’s pass completion rate is 89 per cent and only bettered by Chris Smalling (91 per cent) in Hodgson’s squad.