Twenty-four hours before Chris Eubanks Jr and Conor Benn throw down at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, the director of the Spurs, Ange Postcoglou, was released himself.
Postcoglou said that “hysteria” this week around its job security was part of a “story to create this club for a kind of fall”.
Tottenham will go to Liverpool on Sunday, needing a victory to delay the title of the title and face the Norwegian champions Bodo / Glimt on Thursday in the first leg of their semi-final of the Europa League. But this week’s news cycle has been dominated by reports according to which Postcoglou should leave the club even if it has delivers the first Spurs trophy since 2008.
“We finished fifth last year. But this is not a good story. A better story is that my mandate has been a disaster and he continues to be, “said the 59 -year -old Australian, whose team is 16th after a dismal season which could still end with a European triumph.
“I just think that hysteria surrounding what is happening right now is very premeditated for a certain result. I hope we can challenge this.
“If you have asked a Tottenham supporter, what is the most important thing for them at the moment: who will be the manager next year or if they win this thing?” One hundred percent of them would say: “Just make sure to give us the best opportunity to make history”.
Angel Postcoglou struck “hysteria” compared to his employment safety in the midst of the reports he will leave
The postcoglou team languishes in 16th in the Premier League before a trip to Anfield
The boss of the Subfu Spurs claims that the reports are part of a story to prepare the club for a fall
“The rest does not matter. Everything will take care of himself. The worst thing you can do is focus on what can happen or not and miss this incredible opportunity that is in front of us.
Put to the test on this sense of me against the world – when it seems that many neutral fans like the GUNG -Ho style and the brutal honesty of Postcoglou – he replied: “ I do not have the impression that it is them against me. It’s more on the club.
“I try to change the perception of the club.
“I think there is a story to try to create this club for a kind of fall, regularly.
“And there is no allowance for any type of foundations for something a little different than before.
“The only thing you know is that you know what doesn’t work here.”
The latter may have been a reference to the defensive style of the Postcoglou Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte predecessors. Say what you like about PostCoglou, but it is certainly not defensive.
“I try to do things very, very differently,” he said. “It didn’t all work, for sure, a game took place disastrously, I accept that.
“But I said from the start, we have to trace a different course if we will never break the cycle in which this club followed.
Tottenham can still save his season with a semi-final of the Europa League on the horizon
Spurs will face the Norwegian side Bodo / Glimt in the first leg of their tie in the semi-finals next Thursday
“Oddly, we are still in this position where we can do it.
“I have never taken it personally, I never took him as against me, even if it was against me.
“But I think there is a kind of story about what this club was again on a kind of spiral down or to descend the same rabbithole as in the past.
“While I think it’s totally different and there was very little recognition of this.
“A part is me too a bit of the bear, guy. It may be my Australian humor, but it is certainly lost a large number of times I say ironic things.
After 18 defeats this season, Tottenham supporters would be forgiven to have felt a change of fortune further than ever – despite the shooting of a European trophy. Postcoglou likes an analogy, and he sought a parable attributed to the Danish-American journalist Jacob Riis.
“I speak a lot to the players of” Stonecuts belief, “he said. “The Stonecutter … Only 101st blows the rock cracks. But no one sees the other 100 shots. And they think it’s the last one. This is not the case. So time will tell us if what I have tried to do in the past two years makes us crack this stone.
If the last Big Ange pickaxe hit Bilbao on May 21 and the Spurs crack the Europa League, will it buy him another year to continue to escape? Or was silverware offered him the ideal opportunity to move away with his head high? As Postcoglou said when asked for the club: “Only time will tell us”.
