Tottenham honcho Daniel Levy opens up on ‘impossible’ Postecoglou decision that ‘no one likes’

Daniel Levy reveals why he sacked Ange Postecoglou

Hamstrung by a severe injury crisis, Postecoglou was forced to deploy players out of position as Spurs fared significantly better in Europe.

Now, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has opened up on Postecoglou’s axing in June. Speaking on The Overlap via Youtube, he insisted that the decision to let the Australian go was a ‘collective decision’ made by the board of directors.

“Ultimately, the decision sits with me, but it’s always a collective decision,” Daniel Levy told Gary Neville on The Overlap.

“We have a board of directors, but under the board, we have a group of technical staff, and they advise. We had to explain the decision to part ways with Ange.

“Ange just won us a trophy – a European trophy – highly significant and he’s always going to be in our history.

“However, we couldn’t lose sight of the fact that we finished 17th in the league, we lost 22 Premier League games, and it’s impossible for Tottenham to be in that position, and so we had to take the emotion out of it and we had to give some data points as to why we decided to do what we did.

“Whichever level you do it, no one likes telling somebody, “You’re losing your job”, but it is the nature of football. We’re there to win and yes, we won a European trophy – and it was fantastic – but we also need to win on all fronts.”

Sacking Ange Postecoglou was the right decision

Let’s not forget, Ange lost Harry Kane after he had only arrived at the club in the summer of 2023. Then the previous campaign saw the Australian negotiate arguably the worst-ever injury crisis in the club’s history, having to make do without several senior and key players such as James Maddison, Cristian Romero, Micky Van de Ven, Son Heung-min and Guglielmo Vicario for large periods.

He had a thin bench and inexperienced youngsters, also almost no defence at times, and yet, the 59-year-old stuck to his philosophy and ended our club’s long trophy drought. However, it was clearly not enough as the Lilywhites’ bread and butter lies in the Premier League, where we only managed to finish above the three relegated teams.

This Tottenham roster is very young and hungry for more success, and Levy and the club’s key decision-makers have done right thing by appointing Frank as Ange’s successor as they feel the Dane is the right man to lead the club’s exciting project forward.