has claimed “aren’t an enormous membership” in a scathing rebuke to his former employers as supervisor, .
Frank was lastly following , which prolonged Spurs’ winless run within the to eight matches and left them languishing sixteenth within the desk, simply 5 factors above the relegation zone.
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Postecoglou was fired on the finish of final season regardless of successful the Europa League, after ending seventeenth within the league desk, and then-Brentford boss Frank was earmarked to take the membership ahead.
And talking to Follow Soccer podcast, Postecoglou didn’t maintain again when assessing the north London membership, claiming their strategy means they can’t be counted amongst soccer’s huge boys.
“They’ve constructed an unbelievable stadium, unbelievable coaching services however, once you take a look at their expenditure and notably their wages construction, they’re not an enormous membership,” stated Postecoglou. “I noticed that as a result of, once we had been making an attempt to signal gamers, we weren’t available in the market for these gamers.
“While you stroll into Tottenham, what you see all over the place is ‘To Dare Is To Do’ [the club motto], and but their actions are virtually the antithesis of that. I feel they didn’t realise that, to really win, you’ve bought to take some dangers.
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“I felt like Tottenham as a membership had been saying, ‘we’re one of many huge boys’, and the fact is I don’t suppose they’re.”
Thomas Frank and Ange Postecoglou have each seen their time at Spurs finish badly (PA)
Postecoglou – who turned Nottingham Forest supervisor earlier this season after only a temporary spell in cost – additionally gave his opinion on the sacking of Frank.
And the Australian believes his Danish successor can haven’t any complaints as a result of poor outcomes, though accepts Spurs are a “curious membership” in the intervening time.
Postecoglou defined: “It’s all the time, having been in that place twice within the final six months, it’s robust, it’s robust [being sacked]. You already know that he can’t be the one difficulty on the membership and that’s most likely each supervisor.
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“However, in the end that’s what we get judged on. However it goes again to me, it’s a curious membership Tottenham. It’s made a significant pivot on the finish of final yr, not simply with me however .
Tottenham’s winless Premier League run below Frank had stretched to eight video games (AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
“You’ve created a complete form of surroundings of uncertainty as a result of there’s no ensures, regardless of which managers you usher in as a result of they’ve had world-class managers there and never had success and for what cause?
“What was causing such a significant pivot? Thomas was strolling in, what’s his goal? What’s the membership’s goal? In the beginning of the yr, clearly to compete on all fronts however the membership hasn’t competed on all fronts for a very long time.
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“Additionally essentially the most influential particular person on the membership for the final 20 years can be going so when you’re going to do such a significant pivot, you need to perceive there’s going to be some instability there. Did Thomas know he was strolling into that? I don’t know.
“It’s a good departure from me, anybody who research the sport, it wasn’t prefer it was a development from me. I constructed that form of squad for need of a greater phrase to play a sure means for a variety of years and he’s form of coming in and like we stated, it’s a curious membership Tottenham.”
Harry Kane left Spurs in the summertime of 2023 because the membership’s report scorer (PA Archive)
Spurs are as soon as once more and Postecoglou thinks there is no such thing as a consistency within the profile of boss they’re on the lookout for.
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He additionally means that the lack of talismanic captain Harry Kane to Bayern Munich has additionally been underplayed in explanations of their struggles.
He added: “If you happen to take a look at the checklist of names (managers), there isn’t actually a typical theme there in what they’re making an attempt to do. I do suppose a part of Tottenham’s DNA – for the shortage of a greater phrase – is that they do like their groups to play a sure means.
“It’s honest to say with Mauricio (Pochettino) they had been happening that path, however on the identical time, I feel folks have been too dismissive of Harry’s (Kane’s) affect via that interval.
“If I had had Harry in that first yr, I’m satisfied we might have completed in that Champions League spot. Even him leaving, you can’t plug that gap. It’s not possible.”