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Tottenham Hotspur have no immediate plans to replace Ange Postecoglou as manager, according to multiple reports.
Postecoglou glumly watched from the touchline as Everton tore Tottenham apart in the first half of the Premier League match on Sunday. The Toffees, who have just re-hired David Moyes for a second spell in charge, led 3-0 and were celebrating by half-time at Goodison Park as Spurs’ switch to playing three at the back backfired spectacularly.
A return to a traditional back four helped matters in the second half as goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison at least made the scoreline respectable, but Spurs could not find an equalizer and instead slipped to their 12th Premier League defeat of the season.
Social media pressure is mounting on Postecoglou, who has appeared tough in recent interviews and press conferences, but football.london were the first to report that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has no plans to sack the 59-year-old anytime soon.
Rumors of board meetings to discuss Postecoglou’s future are also said to be off the mark, although there is acceptance that results need to improve despite the club being decimated by numerous injuries.
Key defenders Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven have played a combined 1,752 minutes of Premier League football out of a possible 3,960 minutes (had they both played every minute of the campaign) this season, which equates to just 44%.
First-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario also missed Spurs’ last ten Premier League games after a bone fracture in the foot during A convincing 4-0 victory for Spurs over Manchester City in November – since then the club has only won and that against Southampton at the bottom of the table.
Destiny Udogie, Yves Bissouma, Brennan Johnson, Timo Werner, Wilson Odobert and Dominic Solanke are also injured for the trip to Everton – the latter raising knee problems andmidweek to add to Spurs’ woes – and each of them would probably have been in the matchday squad had they been fit.
“This is not about me, but what is about me right now is that I have a responsibility for the group of players that I have, to try to get through this, and that’s what I have to focus on,” Postecoglou told reporters after the defeat.
“For me to focus on anything else is to shirk the responsibility that I have. I’m just determined to get us out of this. The club is doing its best to…help the players more than me because they’re the ones we’re looking at for some massive deals 18-year-old.
“We’ve had a 17-year-old out there trying to win football games for us. And others who are just playing week in and week out, so, you know it’s more about helping the players than me.”
Spurs‘ broken run of results dropped them to 15th in the Premier League tablefar closer to the relegation zone than they are to their pre-season goal of the top four. They do, however, have the best goal difference in the bottom division by some margin – Spurs’ +10 figure is a wild contrast to that of West Ham, who sit above them in the table but with a -16 goal difference.
