Robbie Savage and Chris Sutton have a major disagreement on the marks that Ange Postecoglou and Tottenham Hotspur deserve after enduring a season of extremes.
When Spurs fans used the thought experiment of “Would you rather finish in the top four or finish 17th and win silverware?”, little did they realise that their club would have achieved both those feats within a space of three years.
Despite having statistically their worst-ever season in Premier League history, the Lilywhites ended the campaign with their European trophy in 41 years.
That is perhaps why their campaign is a difficult one to judge and Ange Postecoglou’s future at the club is far from certain.
Chris Sutton and Robbie Savage debate Tottenham’s season
While rating every team’s season out of 10, Sutton and Savage got into a major argument when it came to Tottenham and Postecoglou.
The former Celtic striker gave Tottenham full marks for breaking their trophy drought, which left Savage appalled at the suggestion.
Factoring in Tottenham’s poor league showing, Savage claimed that Sutton has given a biased opinion given Postecoglou’s Celtic links.
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Here is a transcript of the pair’s conversation on BBC 606:
Sutton: “Tottenham? It has to be a 10 out of 10 for Big Ange, they won a trophy.”
Savage: “What? A 10? They lost 22 games. 10 out of 10 for Spurs? Wow. Come on, play the game properly.”
Sutton: “That was the dream when Ange Postecoglou came in to win a trophy, it’s a 10 for Tottenham.”
Savage: “They finished 17th in the Premier League, a 10 out of 10? Seriously. I guarantee you that if it wasn’t an ex-Celtic manager managing Spurs they’d get a five or six out of 10.”
This is the essence of the debate raging among Spurs fans
This difference of opinion between Savage and Sutton encapsulates in a nutshell what Tottenham fans have been arguing about on social media over the past week.
Does winning a trophy forgive the historically abject showing from the team in the Premier League? Ramon Vega has said that it would be “incredibly disrespectful” to even consider sacking Postecoglou.
However, on the other hand, Jamie O Hara believes Levy has no choice but to sack Postecoglou after losing 22 games in a single season.
One thing is clear: the Tottenham chairman is in an unenviable position and is going to come in for major criticism no matter what he does.