Tottenham turn their focus back to the Premier League after a rather underwhelming outing in the Carabao Cup against Coventry City.
Ahead of their next Premier League game, Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou was told about quite a startling fact and asked for a comment on the same.
And he did not disappoint.
Ange Postecoglou offers “cake” when asked about shocking Spurs pattern
Ahead of his side’s game against Brentford, Ange Postecoglou was reminded that he was the first Tottenham manager in five years to have lasted one full season.
To this, the man from Down Under had a characteristic response:
“Yeah they had a cake for me the other day.”
He was subsequently asked regarding the difficulty of putting in “in real long-term change at a club that has had so many different directions and changes over those years,” to which he replied:
“It’s not difficult for me because that’s how I’ve always worked. I keep saying I know I’m not going to be here forever and but I work like I will be and I make changes that I think are going to set the club up for success for a sustainable period. Every decision I make is along that backdrop. Sometimes if you get caught up in this kind of timeline scenarios I just think you end up making results that potentially okay short-term might feel good, but long-term you’re not going to get to where you want to. That’s all I’m interested in. My brief and my focus and my ambition is to bring success. Every decision I make is made against the backdrop of that.”
Postecoglou on his work at Spurs, as quoted by Football London.
Spurs welcome Brentford at home on Saturday in the Premier League before kicking off their Europa League campaign against Azerbaijani side Qarabağ next Thursday.
Tick tock, then
Part of the reason Postecoglou was allowed a full season was because the previous appointments did not work out for Spurs the way Daniel Levy would have wanted them to.
After sniffing the ultimate glory by making the Champions League final in 2019, Spurs were left reeling in their ever-prolonging quest for silverware, and so when Mauricio Pochettino was ultimately sacked, Levy went for serial winners in José Mourinho and then Antonio Conte after a spectacularly bad manager hunt in the summer of 2021. We know all too well how badly that went, and so the focus returned to first being an exciting side and then building a trophy-winning team on top of it.
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