Pundit still thinks Spurs could win trophy this season – Jamie O’Hara disagrees

Ally McCoist makes a big claim about Tottenham’s chances of winning a trophy this season, but Jamie O’Hara vehemently disagrees with the former Rangers manager.

Tottenham may need to focus on the cup competitions

Spurs‘ 2-1 loss to Ipswich Town on Sunday was further evidence that the Lilywhites are some way off challenging the best sides in the Premier League at the moment, with a top four finishing looking a million miles away.

Some Spurs fans will feel that Ange Postecoglou should prioritise doing well in the Carabao Cup, Europa League and FA Cup, with the supporters desperate to see the club end their trophy drought.

Tottenham have been installed as the favourites to win the Europa League (Opta Analyst) and they are now just one tie away from making it to the semifinal of the Carabao Cup.

McCoist and O’Hara argue about Spurs’ trophy chances

Despite Spurs‘ defeat to Ipswich and all the negativity surrounding the North London club at the moment, McCoist insisted that he can see the club ending the season with silverware.

Here is the transcript of the conversation between the 62-year-old and O’Hara on talkSPORT (via Daily Record):

McCoist: “It would not surprise me in the slightest if Tottenham won something this year.

O’Hara: “Are you having me on, Ally? Are you trying to wind me up?”

McCoist: “I promise you I am deadly serious. I genuinely think Tottenham could win a cup. No chance of the league.”

O’Hara: “I know what you are doing here, you are trying to set me up so you can clip this up and get me to come back on to say ‘Spurs are back’ and I look like an absolute doughnut.”

McCoist: “My hand on my heart. The reason I am saying it is because Ange has already come out and said he generally wins things in his second year, which is factually correct.”

O’Hara: “As much as we play some good football, you can’t win anything like that.

McCoist: “I tell you why I think so. I might be proved totally wrong. On your day, as you’ve proved in the last couple of weeks, you can beat anybody which means you can win a cup. You can’t win the league.”

O’Hara: “There is no way we can win the league. The Carabao Cup maybe. But the Europa League, you talk about Europe, you can’t play against a really good side and be 2-0 down at half-time. If you play against an Italian side you’ve no chance. You might get lucky and get the Carabao Cup but you’ve got to beat Man United who have now got a new manager. That’s a tough game.

“And it is all Premier League teams in that now so it is a hard one to win. The FA Cup is always a long stint at the end of a season which is hard. The Europa League you’ve got to be solid and hard to beat. I know it is West Ham but they won that Conference League because they were hard to beat and didn’t concede goals. Spurs concede goals for fun, you can get at them all the time. You can’t win a trophy like that.”

Postecoglou will have to deliver in the cups

Now that a top-four finish looks like it might be difficult for Tottenham this season, Postecoglou will have to deliver a trophy this season or at least come close to still being in the job next term.

The Tottenham head coach has not been shy of putting more pressure on himself by publicly announcing that the objective this season is to win silverware, and he will be judged by the high standards he has set for himself.

The post Pundit still thinks Spurs could win trophy this season – Jamie O’Hara disagrees appeared first on Spurs Web.