The Angel Postecoglou Mast Show is over. He won't have a sequel to three seasons.
Postecoglou is rightly intoxicated by the success of Tottenham Hotspur League after a famous night in Bilbao. As he promised, he delivered in the second season - but that was just the beginning of his insistence. "We've tasted it now. Let's make sure we're back here."
But Daniel Levy has seen enough.
The chairman who fired a manager in the week of the Cup finals has now been fired within weeks of winning the game. As PosteCoglou says, it's a ruthless appeal to kill the protagonist, but Levy reboots the franchise again.
This is a decision to split the fan base. More than 70% of respondents Sky movement The poll after the finals is that after the trophy drought, there should be more time in the late European period after Europe.
Should this not be the time to use the victory to bring and use Champions League wealth to upgrade Postecoglou's choice in the summer transfer market?
It’s easy to imagine the success of the Europa League, with subsequent trophy parades and celebrations likely joining the band in the preseason. Faith and belief have been restored.
However, in the Spurs level, it is clear that trust in the pecoglou program in the Spurs level is even before the squad boards the plane and flies to northern Spain. He didn't have a game to save his job. Writing is already on the wall.
The Australian may raise his head and his statement “I am the champion, partner” cannot be denied. But for Spurs decision makers and many fans of the club, the dramatic finale didn’t make up for the flaws in the production.
Spurs' Europa League final rival Manchester United was fooled when they extended Erik Ten's contract last summer, which allowed the FA Cup to win a sensation from rival Manchester City to cover up their true status. At the Spurs, there is obviously concern about repeating this error.
The difference, of course, is that the Spurs Cup victory brings bonuses and potentially transformative revenues for Champions League football. But Levy and Co no longer believe Postecoglou is the one who guides the Spurs into that competition and beyond.
To be fair, they have a lot of Premier League evidence to support their position.
Since Postecoglou’s start, the Spurs won eight of the first 10 games at the beginning of the 2023/24 season, winning three consecutive Premier League managers of the Monthly Awards, and their top performance has shifted from underpaying.
After the first 10 games, the next 18 months only brought moments of early dreams. Yes, a 4-0 victory at Aston Villa, a 3-0 victory at Manchester United and a 4-0 victory at Manchester City in November. But lost five times in six games as his first campaign succeeded in his first campaign. Then, this semester was a staggering 22 top-tier matches as the Spurs sank the worst Premier League points and finishes of all time.
Incredibly, 25% of Premier League points won under PosteCoglou in the first 10 games. Their 26 losses in all matches in 2024/25 are the most defeats the club has suffered in a season.
They are amazing statistics that would have made Postecoglou's domination faster if it weren't for the European run.
There is no help to increase friction among Spurs supporters. The second half of the season saw Postecoglou and his players perform a series of runs on their trip and boo at home frequently. These moments will fall into Levi’s mind.
Everything went a long way from the early days when Spurs fans sang "We're bringing Tottenhams back" and celebrated their love for "Big Angle" for Robbie Williams' tune' Angel.
Now, Ange is angry - Levy and the club have a lot of ownership.
Expensive injury crisis
Of course, Postecoglou's defense is about injuries and how they twist the Spurs' performance and results.
Chelsea's notorious failure at home, under postecoglou, under which it brought suspension to Cristian Romero and Destiny Udogie and hurt Micky van de Ven and James Maddison. Tottenham Hotspur has never completely regained their flow.
However, if players’ absence is a distinctive feature of season one, they become the overall narrative of season two. The Spurs squad were stripped of exposed bones due to injuries, while Guglielmo Vicario, Udogie, Romero, Van de Ven, Dominic Solanke and Richarlison all stripped it onto the bones, while Rodrigo Bentancur lasted for a long time.
The scale of these absences should not be reduced. With their preferred defense and goalkeeper, the Spurs will be second in the Premier League in each game. Without them, that is a form of downgrade.
As most of the absences are in the busiest part of the season, Postecoglou was forced to repeatedly turn to teenagers and marginal players for the XI. Perhaps most importantly, the ultimate goal of making the European League’s successful adaptation tactic disappear when these substitutes needed greater protection.
The injury crisis also uncovers loopholes in the club recruitment process and allows them to compete for the choice of goalkeepers and centre-backs in the winter window. Mathys Tel borrowed to enhance the attack, but like Lucas Bergvall, Archie Gray and Wilson Odobert - he also signed teenagers in the summer - he was just a fledgling talent.
When the team regains the main players' running-in in the Europa League, the team's competitiveness is clearly improved.
However, critics will ask Tottenham Hotspurs for the reasons for how to lose at the formerly unwinning Crystal Palace in October. Or in November when relegated to Ipswich's home, most of the stars are on the court.
Leicester's home defeat may have happened in that injury crisis, but stood out in the Foxes' 15 Premier League defeats. Dr. Tottenham Hotspur was marked as marking, and seemed to provide a foot for the opposition team in hand.
That soft feeling has helped Leicester opening ceremony Monday night football During this season, when the Spurs let them get out of the situation with a 1-1 draw. Postecoglou's image of knees desperately is a powerful image. Before, during and after the injury crisis, the vulnerability and lack of cruelty around him became a theme.
Angel's Ending
Premier League aspirations long for a long time, Anfield's "terrible" turnout put an end to the first leg Calaba Cup semifinals leading at Liverpool and in any prospect of domestic success, Postecoglou's record consistently earned in the second season - and the end of that trophy - ended in the European trophy - relying on the European UEFA European League.
Somehow, the Spurs are very grateful to Postecoglou and his players for being able to find a way to lift the trophy.
The free-flowing Angelball was abandoned in a style similar to Postecoglou's predecessors Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte. The man behind the lead and the ball clutched tightly and was previously invisible pragmatism during the reign of postecoglou. The group gathered together for historic victory.
Postecoglou later said that the Europa League has been a priority since the beginning of the year. An interesting revelation - Maybe there may not be a good revelation in the Spurs room. But rather than finishing some master plan ends, the willingness to win, has taken the Spurs a lot of influence. A club that is often criticized for its role shows a lot of work to get the job done.
But is this repeatable?
Since financial stress is more important than football than ever before, gambling in this way is a risk again, Levi doesn’t like it.
With the pressure in the second half of the season, Postecoglou made headlines for "Mr. Hindsight" who thinks all his stories are being watched. In terms of balance, it is also wrong to ignore the fact that he was the first side turbo in more than a decade without being targeted by Harry Kane.
But in a review of his tenure, the Spurs' hierarchy made it clear that despite setbacks, injuries and problems, the latter must deal with it - they saw no evidence that Europa League victory alone could be the launch pad for sustained success. Therefore, the exciting story of pecoglou is over.
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