Europa League-winning Postecoglou clarified previous comments he made about Tottenham Hotspur
Ange Postecoglou pressed pause on his new role as the former Celtic boss cooled previous comments he made on former club Tottenham.
The Australian is taking time away from the dugout after his chastening stint at Nottingham Forest, but joined UEFA's Technical Observer Panel last year. Postecoglou was sent to Paris by his new employers to take in PSG's clash with Chelsea - but took a break from work to address the struggles of his former club.
The 60-year-old led Spurs to Europa League glory last season and earned them a spot in the Champions League. But they were soundly beaten in a calamitous 5-2 defeat to Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night to leave their place in Europe's elite competition hanging by a thread.
Igor Tudor, who has lost four consecutive games since taking over from Thomas Frank, is facing major pressure with the club stumbling into a Premier League relegation scrap.
Asked by Joe Cole about the lack of spending on TNT Sports, Postecoglou said: "That’s a broader argument but the reality of it is they’ve got to deal with it now, that’s the most important thing.
"The football club, I said it a couple of weeks ago, wasn’t behaving to me like a big football club in terms of the kind of players it was attracting.
"But it is a big football club, we saw that last year, there was a couple of hundred thousand people in London going nuts there and I felt it, how big a club it is.
"But in the Premier League it’s a slippery slope once you take your eye off the ball with certain things.
‘But all that is not important right now. What’s important now is where they are in the league, they need to maintain their Premier League status which is obviously paramount to what they want to build.
"‘Those kind of questions you kind of go, ‘okay, we want some real direction here’. I think it’s pretty clear what Tottenham fans want – they want the team to play a certain way, they want success, every team wants success."
He also offered some advice for under-fire boss Tudor: "It’s hard for me to comment from the outside but, for me, it’s about instilling some belief, show them the kind of players they are, not that they can be, that they are, what they’ve already shown."
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