Levy now looking at Pochettino 2.0 to replace Ange Postcoglou at Spurs

Talking throughout Tottenham Hotspur’s parade of the Europa League trophy, Ange Postecoglou issued one other defiant name.

Earlier within the season, there was the suggestion that he at all times received one thing in his second season. Properly, that field has been emphatically ticked.

Now, he is hinted that season two is at all times higher than season three. Regular on, Ange, your job is not even secure, mate.

Regardless of successful a primary main trophy in 17 years, the craggy-faced Australian might nonetheless be given his marching orders by Daniel Levy and Co.

Contemplating they completed seventeenth on 38 factors, that is hardly a shock.

The most recent on Ange Postecoglou’s future at Spurs

What a wacky previous season that was. Postecoglou referenced in his ultimate post-match press convention per week in the past that it had been an “excellent season”.

Outstandingly weird, definitely. That Europa League crown is there however their league type was a large number and the Spurs boss might pay the value.

That is in response to The Telegraph, who report this weekend that the previous Celtic supervisor’s future in north London is ready to be determined this week, together with his place ‘underneath excessive threat’.

Over the previous few days, Levy has not been within the UK whereas Postecoglou can be away on vacation. Because of this, a choice relating to the Aussie’s future remains to be undecided.

Ought to they offer him the boot, then Spurs seemingly have a shortlist of 4 candidates that features Andoni Iraola, Marco Silva, Thomas Frank and Oliver Glasner.

The report notes that Iraola is ready to remain at Bournemouth whereas after his FA Cup success, prising Glasner away from Crystal Palace may also be troublesome.

Thus, the 2 frontrunners for the job are Silva and Frank, with the Brentford supervisor particularly stated to be ‘within the body’.

How Frank might replicate Pochettino at Spurs

Whereas Ange might have been the one to finish Spurs’ trophy drought, it is Mauricio Pochettino who’s essentially the most legendary determine in these components of north London.

In any case, it was Pochettino who engineered that exceptional run to the Champions League ultimate, solely crushed by Liverpool in Madrid.

How did that happen? Properly, so far as English soccer is anxious, it began with Southampton for the Argentine and it went reasonably equally to Frank’s expertise of top-flight soccer.

Certainly, the Dane has grow to be a legend himself with the Bees ending thirteenth in his first Premier League season earlier than steering them to a top-half ninth-placed end, an unparalleled marketing campaign for Brentford.

He did so by taking part in entertaining counter-attacking soccer, whereas additionally growing gamers into a few of the most interesting within the Premier League. Take the duo of Bryan Mbeumo (20 targets) and Yoanne Wissa (19 targets) as examples.

This definitely echoes Pochettino, who after ending 14th having taken over mid-season in 2012/13, then guided the Saints to their best-ever Premier League end of eighth in 2013/14. Like Frank, he turned his facet from relegation candidates to a top-half membership.

Additionally like Frank, he developed younger gamers brilliantly with the likes of Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana actually turning into family names at St Mary’s. It was then underneath Poch that Dele Alli loved the best years of his profession.

Equally to Frank, he additionally deployed a excessive and robust press with Southampton. In 2013/14, the Argentine’s facet had the very best urgent metrics within the Premier League.

Brentford are related in that regard, with their head coach admitting after they obtained promoted: “We knew it was an enormous goal for us going into the Premier League for us to defend effectively. I stated that we attempt to do as a lot as potential to play our type within the Premier League, which is the excessive urgent going ahead.”

Properly, it is secure to say that is definitely labored with the west Londoners now a firmly established top-flight facet.

Maybe this might simply be the appointment to get Spurs again heading in the right direction domestically. He is been described as “probably the greatest managers on the planet” for a cause.