Season Three will be interesting for both Ange and Brendan | OneFootball

Season Three is always better than Season Two, Big Ange reckons, but that’s something Celtic supporters never got to see for ourselves…

Ange Postecoglou Unveiling – Photo Jeff Holmes

Ange Postecoglou recently led his Spurs side to Europa League glory ending the London’s club’s long trophy drought which made his cold quip of winning something in his second season instantly iconic.

Ange then went on to note in the aftermath of leading Spurs to Euro success that just like in television series, Season Three is always better than Season Two.  Although it may have been tongue in cheek it all had Celtic supporters thinking if that would have been the case if we only we had the chance to find the out for ourselves.

I’m also pretty sure that it’s maybe not the case anyway, and it’s the second season at a club where Ange has had his most success. Maybe that remark could see Daniel Levy doing a quick fact checker just to see what’s in store if he retains Ange’s services – something which as Conor Spence reported this morning on The Celtic Star, is currently far from certain.

Ange Postecoglou, Manager of Tottenham Hotspur, smiles after his side’s victory in the UEFA Europa League Final 2025 between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at Estadio de San Mames on May 21, 2025 in Bilbao, Spain. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Ange of course left Celtic after his second season in which he led us to a treble and left with a total of five domestic honours out of six in his short but eventful two season stay in Glasgow.

We were all wooed by ‘Angeball’ and firmly dreaming of further glory under the likeable Aussie and his entertaining style of football until he got the call from North London leaving us all thinking what if?

Brendan Rodgers. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Of course it paved the way for the return of Brendan Rodgers and we haven’t looked back as we carried on where Ange left off and continued to win honours. That doesn’t mean however that we don’t often think of how we would have fared under Ange had he stayed about for just a little longer.

Kilmarnock v Celtic – Viaplay Cup – Second Round – The BBSP Stadium Rugby Park Celtic’s Sead Haksabanovic is fouled by Kilmarnock’s Lewis Mayo during the League Cup match at The BBSP Stadium Rugby Park, Sunday August 20, 2023. Photo Steve Welsh

Brendan ended up winning a double in his first season back, having been done by VAR at Kilmarnock in the early stages of the League Cup. That’s been followed by a second double that really should have been a treble but the team seemed to run out of stream and didn’t really turn-up against Aberdeen in Saturday’s Scottish Cup Final.

Photo: Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

Overall though the bigger picture shows satisfactory progress at Champions League level and that has to be built upon this season. For Ange, if he is allowed to stay on as Tottenham manager he is going to have to do so much better in the Premier League, with a top four target because easier route to Champions League qualification – playing in the lower level Europa League – has now gone.

At least he’s figured out that he has to defend at the elite level. He should have tried that at Celtic! Brendan too seems to have matured as a manager at Champions League level.

Is it inevitable that if Ange keeps his job, we’ll end up playing Spurs in the Group stages, if he get through the play-offs? Remember what happened with Henrik coming back with Barcelona.

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