The Good, The Bad & The Football<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n\u201cThey never should have sacked Thomas Frank.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, ex-West Ham representative Kevin Nolan again suggested that rehiring Australian Ange Postecoglou, who was stood down last year after winning Spurs the Europa League, for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not go and get Ange Postecoglou again?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows the players, the players all liked him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives them a great chance of staying in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberto De Zerbi, Manager of Brighton & Hove Albion. Photo by Charlie Crowhurst\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Tottenham have not tasted life outside the top flight of English football since 1977-78.<\/p>\n
Despite boasting a new 63,000-capacity stadium, state-of-the-art training ground and revenues that make them among the top 10 richest clubs in world football, they are at severe risk of a humiliating relegation to the Championship. <\/p>\n
Just a few years ago they were Champions League regulars under former manager Mauricio Pochettino, reaching the final in 2019.<\/p>\n
Tottenham, then managed by Postecoglou, ended their 17-year trophy drought by winning the Europa League last season.<\/p>\n
But the warning signs of a battle for survival were there as Postecoglou was dismissed despite victory over Manchester United in the Europa League final after finishing 17th in the Premier League. <\/p>\n
Frank was appointed as the Australian\u2019s successor, but the Dane was sacked in February after a run of two wins in 17 league games. <\/p>\n
Tottenham are hopeful of making an appointment well before they are next in action at Sunderland on April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham have targeted Roberto De Zerbi as their preferred candidate to lead the troubled Premier League club\u2019s fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-574980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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