When Tottenham squad found out about Ange Postecoglou’s sacking revealed
Alasdair Gold has revealed when the Tottenham players discovered that Ange Postecoglou would be relieved of his duties and has shed light on the feeling among the squad and the staff members at the club following the decision.
The debate around whether Tottenham Hotspur made the right decision to sack Ange Postecoglou despite the Australian delivering the club’s first trophy in 17 years will continue to rage on.
Tottenham pointed out that the club had picked up just 78 points from their last 66 PL games, and suggested that they cannot overlook that run of form due to the emotion associated with the Europa League win.
However, some Spurs players have said that Postecoglou deserved a chance to build on his success, and it turns out many of them were blindsided by Daniel Levy’s decision.
Tottenham players found out about Ange Postecoglou’s sacking at the last minute
Alasdair Gold has now revealed that no member of the Tottenham squad was consulted or informed about the club’s decision.
He explained that they found out at the very last minute before Tottenham made the official announcement. The journalist added that Postecoglou had left a major mark on everyone who works at Tottenham.
Gold said on The Last Word on Spurs (starting at 29:28): “In terms of the players, from my understanding, they kind of found out at the last possible minute. I think that just as the announcement was about to be made.
“Obviously, we’ve seen the kind of outpouring from them and you’re right, this is more than what happened with Poch [amount of player tributes] and it may be to be fair that back then Mourinho was installed so quickly there was a feeling of not disrespecting the new man kind of thing by going too overboard on the manager they have just had with a lot of messages and things like that.
“He’s a guy, Ange Postecoglou, who has left this incredible mark on a lot of people in that football club. You will notice that all of the messages, and this is what I’ve been told throughout the season as well. He didn’t just kind of treat them as players and vessels for his philosophy; he treated them as human beings.
“All of those messages you will see where they say ‘you improved me as a person’ and stuff like that, that’s kind of part of what his whole ethos is as well. Not just players, but staff behind the scenes, staff in just the everyday running of Tottenham. Canteens, sports science, there are people in every department where he made a mark on them.
“I’ll tell you what, one day, and I’ll presume it will be in an Australian movie, they’ve got to make a movie of his life because it is just incredible what he has come from to what he has achieved. It is just amazing.”
Alasdair Gold reveals how Spurs players feel about Postecoglou’s sacking
Several reports over the last few days have suggested that some Spurs players are angered by the club’s decision to sack Postecoglou.
This has now been backed up by Gold, who explained that there is a lot of unhappiness at the club about the decision, as the feeling was that the Australian had accomplished what he set out to.
The journalist added about the departed Tottenham boss: “He last left this massive mark on players and a lot of players are unhappy at the decision. Obviously, we saw Micky van de Ven’s quotes come out quite recently as well, but certainly privately as well, there has been quite a lot of I think unhappiness at the decision that it had to come.
“Pedro Porro’s comments before the sacking about understanding what’s going on in the dressing room with the players maybe having more knowledge than the people on the outside of what’s going on.
“I think that it’s all this stuff, and I’m, well, hoping it will I can grab it at some point but the interview with Ange Postecoglou, when he’s kind of a bit removed from the situation, you know, a bit down the line, when there’s no NDA disclosure things and NDA’s, and there’s always this couple of years distance there has to be, I’m going to be fascinated to see what actually went on behind the scenes.
“There is so much stuff like the European prioritising, was that agreed to within the club? I know there were some people who didn’t want him to do that, but ultimately, he must have had enough support to push it through. And then he’s gone and done it, and he’s got them your Champions League for the next season. Yet in the end, it was not enough to save his job.
“It’s just a crazy football club. Sometimes the things they do, and look, I understand some of the reasons behind it. I understand that they’re [Tottenham] so unhappy with the Premier League side of things. But like Jason said, there’s so much context to a lot that, but that, I think people leave out sometimes because it’s such a horrendous figure and I get that.
“But ultimately, I think he embodied the motto of the club, you know he dared and he did, and he absolutely came away with something that we haven’t experienced for so long, so he walks away with his head held high.”
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