Frustration is mounting at Tottenham as a once-promising season under Ange Postecoglou has not gone to plan. After a strong start, Spurs lost momentum, and serious questions are now being asked about Postecoglou’s tactics, decisions, and the team’s overall direction.
We spoke to Spurs expert James Trembath about where it’s gone wrong for Postecoglou, the growing frustration among supporters, and what the future could look like in the home dugout.
We spoke to Spurs expert James Trembath about where it’s gone wrong for Postecoglou, the growing frustration among supporters, and what the future could look like in the home dugout.
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00:00Now, frustration is mounting at Tottenham as once a promising season under Ange Postacoglu has not gone to plan.
00:11After a strong start, Spurs lost momentum and serious questions are now being asked about Postacoglu's tactics, decisions and the team's overall direction.
00:20What initially felt like a beginning of a new era of exciting front foot football has been overshadowed by defensive frailties,
00:28questionable in-game management and a lack of progress when it matters most.
00:33The mood among fans has shifted and discontent is becoming hard to ignore.
00:39I spoke to Spurs expert James Trembath about where it's gone wrong for Postacoglu,
00:43the growing frustration among supporters and what the future could look like in the home dugout.
00:50James, looking at Spurs and in terms of Ange Postacoglu,
00:54now we've mentioned multiple times that this is probably likely to be his final season at Spurs.
00:59You know, it's just clearly not been good enough.
01:02There's been some overwhelming factors that we've gone through as well to suggest, you know, his tenure could be coming to an end.
01:08We've also looked at replacements.
01:09And just let's go over it again a little bit in finer detail in terms of maybe where he went wrong.
01:16And, you know, Ange is coming out now and sort of saying how, you know, things have gone wrong and things were wrong from the very start of this season.
01:25And he's also sort of, you know, quoted towards the possible candidates to replace him,
01:30which is quite remarkable, really, at the end of the day.
01:33And, you know, it's an interesting situation for Spurs.
01:36It leaves them looking for another refresh.
01:38You know, the bigger picture is it's likely there will be a new manager in terms of a new season, you know, coming up in the future.
01:45But where does it leave Spurs at the moment and Ange Postacoglu's time at the club?
01:50Yeah, I think that it's interesting this week in particular, isn't it, that the sort of tone is starting to shift a little bit.
01:56I think that's the first time we've sort of seen Postacoglu talk about, you know, a future away from Spurs or certainly alluding to that fact.
02:04And really interesting interview during the week as well around this business of, you know,
02:09we didn't get the preparations right at the start of the season.
02:11And that's kind of been where the problems began.
02:14And he's been chasing his tail ever since, which I think is very, very interesting as well.
02:18And I mean, you know, on one hand, you think about that as a, you know, an admission and quite refreshing that he's come out and admitted that.
02:25And he's trying to lift the lid and give a little bit of insight into what's really been going on behind the scenes.
02:31But in the other half, you know, we knew players were coming back off the, off a major tournament.
02:35Lots of very, very short, truncated pre-seasons.
02:39You know, we invested in youth rather than experience for the main, albeit some really talented youth.
02:45Every Spurs fan, I think in the country and probably worldwide, knew we were undercooked in terms of the squad going into the season with, you know,
02:52a limited squad with four competitions in store.
02:56And we've gone deep into a Carabao cut.
02:58We've gone deep into the Europa League.
03:00And obviously the injuries have just, you know, curtailed us really in terms of where we've gone this season and hindered our development, as we all know.
03:08So that's really, really interesting, I think.
03:11And, you know, you just wonder how have we allowed that to happen?
03:15I mean, every Spurs fan, like I said, knew that we only went into the season with one recognised left-back.
03:20We were short at centre-back.
03:21We were short of experience, probably midfield.
03:23Probably could have done with another front man.
03:25So, you know, it just begs the question, really, doesn't it?
03:28How on earth has that been allowed to happen?
03:29And Posa Coglu's got to shoulder part of that blame.
03:32And, you know, I think that's really interesting, as I say, with his tone.
03:35And, you know, he almost is talking now like he knows the writing's on the wall.
03:40And, you know, I would doubt even if we win the Europa League, that'd save him, to be honest.
03:44You know, he's been talking about Pochettino coming back and flirting with Spurs.
03:48And like you say, these ideal candidates that are world-class should Spurs look to go in another direction.
03:53And that's the first time he's really started to speak about that.
03:56So maybe, you know, things are a foot behind the scenes.
03:58You know, I don't think anything will be happening before the end of the season.
04:01But certainly, I think we'll be going into next season with a new manager.
04:05We start again, we rebuild.
04:06And, you know, it's a sad state of affairs, really, in terms of on and off the pitch at the moment with the club.
04:11And a lot of people just feel so disenchanted and disconnected.
04:14So, you know, where we go from here, you know, who only knows, really.
04:19There's no international tournaments.
04:21We've always got the Club World Cup.
04:22Spurs won't be involved in that, as we know.
04:25So we can really have a good go at this pre-season.
04:27But we need to get players in early.
04:29We need to identify those targets, you know.
04:31And also, we need to see who's going to be left in terms of players that leave the exit door through the summer.
04:35So, you know, it's not all doom and gloom, which, again, bizarre to say, I think.
04:40But we need the right appointment for the next manager.