{"id":421988,"date":"2026-02-12T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421988\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:48:07","slug":"tottenham-not-a-big-club-says-former-manager-ange-postecoglou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421988\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham ‘not a big club’, says former manager Ange Postecoglou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Mauricio Pochettino’s departure in 2019, Spurs have had five different managers. <\/p>\n

Jose Mourinho took charge between 2019 and 2021, but was sacked just days before the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nuno Espirito Santo’s tenure lasted only four months, while Antonio Conte criticised the club’s board<\/a> and called his players ‘selfish’ before he was sacked after 16 months in charge. <\/p>\n

His successor Postecoglou was dismissed last summer, while Frank lasted less than a year of his three-year contract. <\/p>\n

Postecoglou, who was sacked by Nottingham Forest<\/a> after just 39 days in charge earlier this season, questioned whether Frank was aware how things would operate when he accepted the job.<\/p>\n

“You know that he can’t be the only issue at the club,” said the 59-year-old. <\/p>\n

“It’s a curious club, Tottenham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It made a major pivot at the end of last year, not just with me but with [executive chairman] Daniel [Levy] leaving as well, and created this environment of uncertainty.<\/p>\n

“There’s no guarantee whichever manager you bring in. They’ve had world-class managers there and they haven’t had success. And for what reason?<\/p>\n

“Thomas is walking in and what’s his objective? What’s the club’s objective?<\/p>\n

“If you’re going to do such a major pivot, you’ve got to understand there’s going to be some instability there.<\/p>\n

“Did Thomas know he was walking into that? I don’t know.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since Mauricio Pochettino’s departure in 2019, Spurs have had five different managers. Jose Mourinho took charge between 2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}