What next for Tottenham after sacking Ange Postecoglou?

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·6 juin 2025

What next for Tottenham after sacking Ange Postecoglou?

Daniel Levy has to get his next appointment right, having sacked Ange Postecoglou two weeks after ending the club’s long trophy drought.

Daniel Levy really is as ruthless as we thought, sacking Postecoglou two weeks after delivering on his promise of winning a major trophy.

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Plenty of possible successors have been touted, with Brentford’s Thomas Frank and Fulham’s Marco Silva among the front-runners, but one thing is crystal clear – there is huge pressure on Levy to get the next appointment right, given that a large proportion of Spurs fans still supported Postecoglou.

The bad news for Levy is that this is likely to be an expensive process, having to pay off two of the remaining four years of Postecoglou’s contract, and probably having to pay compensation to the club who employs whoever they want next.

Then there is the issue of recruitment, with Tottenham’s current squad unlikely to be able to cope with the joint challenges of the Premier League and Champions League. Adding at least two or three top quality players to the existing roster is going to cost north of £150m, although that could be offset by incoming fees if Ange-loyalists such as Cristian Romero and Dejan Kulusevski push for moves away from Spurs.

The bad news for Spurs fans is that Levy’s track record in appointing managers is not good. Since taking over in 2000, and promptly sacking George Graham, who had won a trophy the year before, Levy has appointed 11 managers (excluding caretakers) and only two managed to win a trophy, including Postecoglou who led his team to the Europa League two weeks ago.

That result also put Spurs in the Champions League, yet only three of Levy’s 11 appointments managed to qualify by finishing in the top four – Harry Redknapp, Mauricio Pochettino and Antonio Conte.

Jose Mourinho came in as a proven winner at every club he had managed, but never won a thing at Spurs, although it was particularly harsh of Levy to sack the Special One shortly before Tottenham’s League Cup final meeting with Manchester City in February 2021.

As for the rest, Glenn Hoddle reached a League Cup final but lost, Jacques Santini, former France manager, was a disaster, lasting only 13 games before leaving. Andre Villas Boas was another high-profile failure, having failed at Chelsea previously. Nuno Espirito Santo, Levy’s fifth choice in 2021, lasted only 17 games before being sacked. His replacement Conte reached the Champions League and had Spurs in fourth place before his infamous rant about Tottenham’s lack of winning mentality.

Postecoglou replaced Conte, finished fifth and then ended the jibes about “trophyless Tottenham” by winning the Europa League, before being sacked two weeks later.

Whoever comes next will have to manage upwards as well as down, and needs to win something in his first season if he is to justify Levy’s decision to sack Postecoglou. Best of luck!