"It's good. But let's wait until tomorrow," he said when asked about going top.
"At the minute there is no difference anyway with the other teams, there is Chelsea v West Brom tomorrow. But we are in there. No matter what the results will be. So that's good - we are in the fight.
"We were not too bad last year. We finish second in the league. I believe we have improved, yes. But we have to show that on a longer term.
"I believe that we have created confidence, I think we are ambitious - but what is at stake is to keep urgency levels very high, humility levels very high and togetherness very high. We have to show that in every single game now. Then we will see where we stand."
"When you analyse last season at home, we did very well against the top five and we dropped points between fifth and 12th at home, teams in mid-table.
"Certainly that is our challenge this year, to continue to do well against the top teams but as well in these kind of games, like Stoke today, where you have to win and we dropped some points last year."