Please guys, for the love of God, stop looking at Ange Postecoglou through your own \u201cprisms\u201d, will you? He\u2019s got his own, very particular \u201cprism\u201d, through which you will see and herald him as the trophy-winning, misunderstood genius of a managerial supremo he is, alright?!<\/p>\n
Postecoglou is very much on the back foot at Nottingham Forest having lost five and drawn two of his seven games in charge. Reports suggest the lunchtime clash with Chelsea on Saturday could be his last<\/a>, with Evangelos Marinakis ready to swing the axe to fell a second Forest tree in the space of six weeks as he considers Sean Dyche, of all people, to replace Postecoglou, who is now painting himself as some sort of societal outsider,\u00a0rather than simply a manager who can\u2019t win a game of football.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess from my perspective I just don\u2019t fit, not here, just in general,\u201d Postecoglou said<\/a>, to a room full of journalists all delighted at the headline-making quote he had given them in his very sentence and utterly confused as to what the p*ssing hell he\u2019s talking about. Don\u2019t fit in the Premier League? Football? On this planet? What?<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cIf you look at things through the prism that I am a failed manager who is lucky to get this job, I know you\u2019re smirking at me, but that\u2019s what\u2019s been said, then of course these first five weeks looks like this guy is under pressure. But there is an alternative story.<\/p>\n \u201cI came to the Premier League two years ago and I took over at Tottenham, I was told by the chairman [Daniel Levy] that this club has to win a trophy. He said we\u2019ve tried to bring winners in: Jose [Mourinho], Antonio Conte, and it hasn\u2019t worked. We need something different. I was slightly offended by that because I see myself as winner.<\/p>\n \u201cI took over Spurs who finished eighth. Massive club, but no European football, and one that can\u2019t go two years without European football. We finished fifth in my first year and every time Harry Kane scores a goal [for Bayern after leaving Spurs] I go, \u2018I wish he stayed just one more year\u2019. It would have been handy to have him after finishing fifth.<\/p>\n \u201cBut somehow that [first] year has disappeared from the record books. It was even used as a reason for me losing my job because even Tottenham decided to exclude the first ten games. Yet the first ten games here [at Forest] are important apparently.\u201d<\/p>\n