The Australian was highly critical of a Spurs approach that has seen them fall into a relegation battle.
Former Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou has claimed Spurs are “not a big club” in a damning interview released in the wake of the sacking of Thomas Frank.
Spurs parted company with Postecoglou at the end of last season despite the Australian leading them to Europa League glory. Tottenham finished 17th in Postecoglou’s second and final season in charge, losing 22 of their 38 Premier League games.
Yet the decision to replace him with Frank backfired, with Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat to Newcastle United marking the end of his miserable and brief time in charge.
While Tottenham are through to the last 16 of the Champions League, they are just five points above the bottom three with 12 games to play and in danger of suffering relegation from the top flight for the first time since 1977.
Postecoglou slams Tottenham
Though Postecoglou’s reputation took a further blow this season with a fleeting spell at Nottingham Forest in which he failed to win a league game, the former Celtic boss took aim at Spurs in an appearance on The Overlap’s ‘Stick to Football’ podcast.
“Having been in that position now twice in the last six months, it’s tough,” Postecoglou said of being relieved of his duties.
“You know that he can’t be the only issue at the club. It’s a curious club, Tottenham. It’s made a major pivot at the end of last year, not just with me but with [the executive chair] Daniel [Levy] leaving as well, and you’ve created this whole sort of environment of uncertainty.
“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? Thomas is walking in and what’s his objective, what’s the club’s objective?
“If you’re going to do such a major pivot, you’ve got to understand there’s going to be some instability there. Did Thomas know he was walking into that? I don’t know.”
Postecoglou went on to express his belief that Tottenham’s ambitions are not reflected by their activity in the transfer market.
“They’ve built an unbelievable stadium, unbelievable training facilities but, when you look at their expenditure and particularly their wages structure, they’re not a big club,” he explained.
“I saw that because, when we were trying to sign players, we weren’t in the market for those players.
“When you walk into Tottenham, what you see everywhere is ‘To Dare Is To Do’ [the club motto], and yet their actions are almost the antithesis of that.
“I think they didn’t realise that, to actually win, you’ve got to take some risks. I felt like Tottenham as a club were saying: ‘We’re one of the big boys.’ And the reality is I don’t think they are.”
Asked about the ‘Spursy’ tag often attached to Tottenham and about an apparent lack of belief in success, Postecoglou replied: “One hundred per cent there is, and that was the thing I was trying to break.
“And then you break that by winning something and what do you do? You tear it all up and you go again. And it’s not because it’s me, but what are you trying to achieve?”
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