Lucas Bergvall and Archie Gray have said that Ange Postecoglou must "100%" stay at Tottenham Hotspur for a third season after leading them to the Europa League title.
Both Spurs vice-captains James Maddison and Cristian Romero have also shown their support for the Australian in the past 24 hours after he ended Spurs' 17-year wait for a trophy with the victory in Bilbao against Manchester United to deliver Tottenham's first European title in 41 years.
football.london reported on Tuesday morning that a decision is unlikely to be made on Postecoglou's future this week with the Australian and most staff within the club now on their post-season holidays. Spurs' poor league form and their 17th-place finish had appeared to be leading Postecoglou towards the exit door but the huge swell of support and gratitude from the fanbase for him following the historic trophy win and subsequent parade has ensured there is a chance of him staying at the helm now.
Postecoglou also retains the strong support of the dressing room and teenagers Bergvall and Gray, who made 91 appearances between them this season under the Australian, were very clear when asked at the Maddison Invitational charity golf day whether the 59-year-old should remain in charge.
"A hundred per cent [he should stay], I think he’s done a great job," Bergvall told Sky Sports. "It’s not been easy for any of us, especially because of all the injuries, but as he said, he always wins things in his second year and that’s true."
When Gray was asked if Postecoglou should get a third season, the midfielder had no hesitation in responding: "Yes, definitely. It’s been a great season this year and it’s been a roller coaster of a season as well, not just at the end.
"We’ve obviously had some really tough times and we stuck together. He’s big on things like family and I think the main thing that helped us get to the final and win the final is our morals of what we’re like as a team. Like I said, family is our main thing. We believe in each other and it’s like brothers going out there on the pitch in the final and we just fought for each other."
Maddison had earlier said: "Yeah [he should stay], he's been brilliant, man, like, even at the start of the season, saying: 'I don't usually win things, I always win things'. It's one of them. We knew that would create a big uproar in the media with you like never shutting up about it, but never once did I stop believing that he meant that.
"The season three line was iconic as well and he's got them in the locker, the motivational mic drop moments."
He added: "Managers and clubs, you don't need a bigger example than Tottenham, can go long periods without winning trophies, 17 years, but he's a man who's always had success and he's a man who I think his biggest strength is his self-belief in what he does, and that feeds off into us and that's been installed into us in Europe this year.
"All the away games and even the ones early in the group stages and the round of 16 we had a really bad performance away at AZ Alkmaar and he went heavy on us because you just know he's a winner and then we turned it around second leg and we're in the quarters, and every step we got closer and closer and we believed more and more, and now we're winners and no one can ever take that away from us."