Ange Postecoglou Claims Tottenham Are ‘not A Big Club’ In Damning Assessment

Ange Postecoglou has described “curious” Tottenham arsenic “not a large club” aft their sacking of Thomas Frank. Frank succeeded Postecoglou past summertime but was incapable to reverse their fortunes successful nan Premier League and was shown nan doorway connected Wednesday pinch Spurs 16th.

“Having been successful that position now doubly successful nan past six months, it’s tough,” Postecoglou told The Overlap’s Stick to Football podcast. “You cognize that he can’t beryllium nan only rumor astatine nan club. It’s a funny club, Tottenham. It’s made a awesome pivot astatine nan extremity of past year, not conscionable pinch maine but pinch [the executive chair] Daniel [Levy] leaving arsenic well, and you’ve created this full benignant of situation of uncertainty.

“There’s nary guarantee whichever head you bring successful – they’ve had world-class managers location and they haven’t had success. And for what reason? Thomas is stepping successful and what’s his objective, what’s nan club’s objective?

“If you’re going to do specified a awesome pivot, you’ve sewage to understand there’s going to beryllium immoderate instability there. Did Thomas cognize he was stepping into that? I don’t know.”

Postecoglou was sacked contempt winning nan Europa League, and he believes a disconnect betwixt Tottenham’s stated ambitions and their willingness to put successful players is astatine nan bosom of their struggles.

“They’ve built an unbelievable stadium, unbelievable training accommodation but, erstwhile you look astatine their expenditure and peculiarly their wages structure, they’re not a large club,” he said. “I saw that because, erstwhile we were trying to motion players, we weren’t successful nan marketplace for those players.

“When you locomotion into Tottenham, what you spot everyplace is ‘To Dare Is To Do’ [the nine motto], and yet their actions are almost nan antithesis of that. I deliberation they didn’t realise that, to really win, you’ve sewage to return immoderate risks. I felt for illustration Tottenham arsenic a nine were saying: ‘We’re 1 of nan large boys.’ And nan reality is I don’t deliberation they are.”

The Australian, who was besides sacked by Nottingham Forest this play aft a very little spell, agreed pinch nan club’s “Spursy” tag that location is simply a deficiency of belief successful success. “One 100 per cent location is, and that was nan point I was trying to break,” he said. “And past you break that by winning thing and what do you do? You tear it each up and you spell again. And it’s not because it’s me, but what are you trying to achieve?”