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<\/p>\nEuropa League-winning Postecoglou clarified previous comments he made about Tottenham Hotspur<\/p>\n
21:03, 11 Mar 2026Updated 21:04, 11 Mar 2026<\/p>\n
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Former Celtic and Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou<\/p>\n
Ange Postecoglou pressed pause on his new role as the former Celtic<\/a> boss cooled previous comments he made on former club Tottenham.<\/p>\n The Australian is taking time away from the dugout after his chastening stint at Nottingham Forest, but joined UEFA’s<\/a> Technical Observer Panel last year. Postecoglou<\/a> was sent to Paris by his new employers to take in PSG’s clash with Chelsea – but took a break from work to address the struggles of his former club.<\/p>\n The 60-year-old led Spurs to Europa League glory last season<\/a> and earned them a spot in the Champions League. But they were soundly beaten in a calamitous 5-2 defeat to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night to leave their place in Europe’s elite competition hanging by a thread.<\/p>\n Igor Tudor, who has lost four consecutive games since taking over from Thomas Frank, is facing major pressure with the club stumbling into a Premier League relegation scrap.<\/p>\n Asked by Joe Cole about the lack of spending on TNT Sports, Postecoglou said: “That\u2019s a broader argument but the reality of it is they\u2019ve got to deal with it now, that\u2019s the most important thing.<\/p>\n “The football club, I said it a couple of weeks ago, wasn\u2019t behaving to me like a big football club in terms of the kind of players it was attracting.<\/p>\n “But it is a big football club, we saw that last year, there was a couple of hundred thousand people in London going nuts there and I felt it, how big a club it is.<\/p>\n “But in the Premier League it\u2019s a slippery slope once you take your eye off the ball with certain things.<\/p>\n \u2018But all that is not important right now. What\u2019s important now is where they are in the league, they need to maintain their Premier League status which is obviously paramount to what they want to build.<\/p>\n “\u2018Those kind of questions you kind of go, \u2018okay, we want some real direction here\u2019. I think it\u2019s pretty clear what Tottenham fans want \u2013 they want the team to play a certain way, they want success, every team wants success.”<\/p>\n He also offered some advice for under-fire boss Tudor: “It\u2019s hard for me to comment from the outside but, for me, it\u2019s about instilling some belief, show them the kind of players they are, not that they can be, that they are, what they\u2019ve already shown.”<\/p>\n Get more Daily Record exclusives by signing up for free to Google\u2019s preferred sources. Click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tune in to Hotline Live<\/a> every Sunday to Thursday and have your say on the biggest issues in Scottish football and listen to Record Sport’s newest podcast, Game On<\/a>, every Friday for your sporting fix, all in bitesize chunks.<\/p>\n Follow Record Sport on Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> for all of the up-to-the minute breaking news, video and audio on the SPFL, the Scotland national team and beyond.<\/p>\n You can get all the news you need on our dedicated Rangers<\/a> and Celtic<\/a> pages, and sign up to our newsletters<\/a> to make sure you never miss a beat throughout the season.<\/p>\n We’re also on WhatsApp where we bring all the latest breaking news and transfer gossip directly to you phone. Join our Rangers community here<\/a> and our Celtic community here<\/a>.<\/p>\n