Look, let’s not pretend that things are rosy and peachy-keen at Tottenham Hotspur. They are not. The club is on a historic bad patch, currently its worst Premier League season EVER, and just lost at home to a team in the relegation zone. Spurs are decimated by injuries, and the surviving players are so exhausted from playing two matches a week that they can’t last 90 minutes without keeling over. The club has also gone to the last week of the transfer window without adding significant reinforcements to the squad, with the exception of keeper Antonin Kinsky.
It’s real bad. And as we’ve seen, there’s a deep divide in the fanbase as to who’s to blame: Ange Postecoglou? Daniel Levy? Johan Lange and his team? All of the above? A lot of Spurs fans, including myself, expected to wake up this morning to a CLUB STATEMENT and a photo of a Tottenham Hotspur Stadium corner flag.
But according to Alasdair Gold, that’s not the case. Gold, in the middle of a long piece about how Spurs are just plain embarrassing right now, slipped in a brief that the club is still backing Postecoglou (for now), understanding the incredible circumstances and bad luck that have led the club to this point at this time.
For now at least, football.london understands that Spurs are sticking with Postecoglou amid the injury crisis his squad is engulfed in and will try to sign at least one player for him in the week ahead to ease that, even if that should have happened long ago.
— Alasdair Gold, football.london
If you’re #AngeIn, this is a positive, as it is an indication that the board really does see this as a long term project, and that’s difficult to evaluate Postecoglou fully when he has both hands tied behind his back. Spurs are, after all, still in four competitions, one of only two clubs in the league to be in that position, and have a real chance of making the League Cup final. But there’s also recognition that, regardless of context, results have not been good.
I don’t know what the future holds for Postecoglou this summer — nobody does, really. But it does sound like Daniel Levy and Scott Munn recognize that that, at least for now, there isn’t much benefit to changing managers mid-season with everything else going on.
