Should Ange Postecoglou be given another chance at Tottenham?

The next few weeks at Tottenham are going to be interesting. The board eventually decided (before they were forced to) to sack Thomas Frank, and now we are forced to start imagining what the next car crash under ENIC will look like. One suggestion, currently doing the rounds, is Ange Postecoglou.

Positives for rehiring Ange:

Australians love him; his support was global, but the Aussie became a true poster boy for a continent.

His first season (2023/24) was solid — finished 5th in the Premier League, playing entertaining, attacking football that reinvigorated parts of the fan base.
Second season (2024/25): Delivered the club’s first major trophy in 17 years by winning the Europa League (beating Manchester United in the final), securing Champions League qualification. That’s a genuine achievement and something he repeatedly promised (“I always win things in my second year”).

The negatives are many:

But domestically, it collapsed: Tottenham finished 17th in the Premier League with a huge number of losses (including 22 in 38 matches at one point), massive injury issues, heavy rotation, and an inability to balance cup success with league form. The club sacked him just weeks after the Europa League win, prioritising league performance over the trophy.

The gaffer’s CV took a further dent after Nottingham Forest ran him out of town after just 39 days following a winless run.

He denies Spurs are a big club

“They’ve built an unbelievable stadium, unbelievable training facilities, but when you look at the expenditure, particularly their wages structure, they’re not a big club.” He contrasted this with rivals like Arsenal, who spend big, e.g., £100m+ on Declan Rice, saying Spurs aren’t in that market when targeting players.

After finishing 5th in his first season, he wanted to push for established Premier League-ready players to challenge higher. He specifically named four targets the club rejected in the 2024 summer window: Pedro Neto, Bryan Mbeumo, Antoine Semenyo, and Marc Guehi.

Instead, Spurs signed Dominic Solanke plus three teenagers (e.g., Lucas Bergvall, Archie Gray). Postecoglou said: “Those three teenagers are outstanding young players… but they’re not going to get you from fifth to fourth and third.”

He felt the signings didn’t match the club’s public messaging about competing on all fronts.

So the THFC board are unlikely to want him back on the premises.