Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Ange Postecoglou has hit out on the backlash for stating that he all the time wins a trophy in his second season at a membership, insisting it’s only a “true” assertion.
Postecoglou is aiming to ship Tottenham’s first silverware since 2008, however has seen his workforce wrestle within the opening weeks of 2024/25 except for a 4-0 drubbing of a dreadful Everton.
Following defeat to Arsenal within the north London derby on Sunday, the boss declared: “I all the time win issues in my second 12 months”, which has led to shock and taunting given latest outcomes.
Arsenal legend Paul Merson, who’s signed as much as the present sequence of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, responded reside on Sky Sports activities: “I like Ange, I like him. However I’ve acquired extra likelihood of profitable Strictly [than Ange winning something in his second season]!”
Talking earlier than Spurs are because of face Coventry Metropolis within the Carabao Cup third spherical this week, Postecoglou was pressed by reporters on his feedback.
“I simply acknowledged a truth. Am I supposed to only lie or say it by no means occurred?” he replied, considerably incredulously. “It is complicated to me that individuals are making an enormous deal out of one thing. I am unsure how I am presupposed to reply one thing that’s true. If I do not win within the second 12 months and are available out and say [the same thing] subsequent 12 months, effectively, no, really it isn’t true.
“However I’ve simply stated one thing that is true and it looks as if it is upset lots of people for some motive. Do you actually suppose it is me boasting? How am I presupposed to reply one thing that is true? Is it to say, ‘Properly, really, it wasn’t that essential, they had been straightforward competitions and do not imply something’?
“Should you’ve achieved one thing, aren’t you presupposed to say, ‘Sure, I’ve, and that is what I hope to do once more’. I am not likely positive why folks misconstrue it as me attempting to boast about one thing. I’ve answered a query, which is true, and [winning a trophy in the second year] has all the time occurred.
“My plan is for it to occur once more this 12 months and if it does not occur, I am unable to reply that query the identical means, and say ‘principally’, not ‘all the time’.”
After his personal taking part in profession was minimize brief by harm on the age of 27, Postecoglou took on his first head teaching gig at former membership South Melbourne in 1996. By the tip of the next season, the membership had gained Australia’s Nationwide Soccer League championship. When he took over Brisbane Roar in 2009 following a number of years working inside Soccer Australia, the identical factor occurred by profitable the A-League Grand Closing on the finish of his second season in cost.
Postecoglou subsequently solely had one season at Melbourne Victory previous to main the nationwide workforce for 4 years, however he returned to membership administration with Yokohama F. Marinos in Japan in 2018 and gained the 2019 J1 League title. At Celtic, he did not want to attend till the second season, profitable a Scottish Premiership and league cup double off the bat however following it up with a home treble.
It was that success in Scotland which introduced Postecoglou to the eye of Spurs. And whereas his workforce made a flying begin to 2023/24 and he was named Premier League Supervisor of the Month for August, that early momentum has lengthy since dissipated.
