It is not an easy time to be a Tottenham supporter right now with the club in turmoil and a hunt on for a new manager.
It is not an easy time to be a Tottenham supporter right now. The club is hovering dangerously close to the relegation zone, performances have nosedived and the board are scrambling around the market in search of yet another new manager to steady the ship. The mood around north London is jittery at best, with fans frustrated by results on the pitch and a sense that there is no clear long‑term plan guiding Spurs forward.
To make matters worse, former head coach Ange Postecoglou has now resurfaced in the headlines with a revealing sit‑down on The Overlap. In a wide‑ranging chat, the Australian was openly critical of how the club operates, particularly when it comes to backing their managers in the transfer market and providing the level of investment needed to genuinely compete.
During the interview, Postecoglou also dropped a fascinating nugget that will prick up the ears of Liverpool fans.
Speaking on the Overlap, Postecoglou revealed that he wanted to sign both Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi at Tottenham – but that he did not feel like he got the backing from the North London side:
“It’s curious in terms of understanding what they are trying to build,” he said of Tottenham as a club. “They’ve built an unbelievable stadium and training facilities. But when you look at expenditure and particularly wages… they’re not a big club.”
“I saw that. Because when we were trying to sign players , we weren’t in the market for those players. At the end of my first year when we finished 5th, I thought ‘how do you go from 5th to really challenging?’ You sign Premier League-ready players.”
“But we ended up signing Dominic Solanke, who I was really keen on and really like him, and three teenagers.”
“I was looking at Pedro Neto, Mbeumo, Semenyo & Guehi. If we going to go from fifth to challenging, that’s what other big clubs would have done [signing these players] in that moment.”
In the end, Tottenham never managed to get either deal over the line – and Liverpool didn’t, either. Both Guehi and Semenyo have since made big moves to Manchester City, where they are now part of Pep Guardiola’s evolving squad and exactly the sort of Premier League‑ready additions Postecoglou felt he needed in north London.
The fact that City ultimately pounced on the same profiles only strengthens the argument that Ange’s eye for talent was sharp; the problem, as he hints, was that Tottenham weren’t prepared to go all the way to back his judgment.
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