Postecoglou says he takes ‘great pride’ in one thing he has achieved at Spurs

Ange Postecoglou has pointed out that things could have easily gone very wrong for him in his first season at Tottenham Hotspur if some of... The post Postecoglou says he takes ‘great pride’ in one thing he has achieved at Spurs appeared first on The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News.

Ange Postecoglou has pointed out that things could have easily gone very wrong for him in his first season at Tottenham Hotspur if some of his key signings had failed to hit the ground running.

Ange Postecoglou’s first season at Spurs

Postecoglou arrived at Spurs at an extremely tumultuous time, taking over a club that was reeling after a failed Antonio Conte experiment, on the back of their worst league finish since 2009.

To make matters worse, the Australian also lost Harry Kane before the start of the season and hardly anyone predicted at the time that the Lilywhites would be pushing for top four.

However, expectations got reset at the start of the last campaign after Tottenham came flying out of the blocks, playing some enterprising football.

Postecoglou is proud of his Spurs start

The club’s end to the season was quite disappointing as they were pipped to a fourth place finish by Aston Villa but Postecoglou suggested that things could have been a lot worse had his decisions not been spot on last summer.

The Tottenham head coach told Football.London: “I don’t dismiss last year, because it could’ve gone very differently.

“I get that we obviously got off to a flying start and then we sort of petered out in the end, and people kind of hang on that, and we finished fifth, which is not exactly exciting, but you know, when you take over a club that’s finished eighth, with big expectations and you lose a generational player on the eve of the season, and you know there’s some major squad restructuring, team restructuring.

“I mean, you just think about our transfers. If I’d got even one of them wrong, if I’d got Vicario wrong, Van de Ven wrong, Maddison at the start of the year the way he was performing.

“If we didn’t get the best out of Pedro [Porro] and [Cristian] Romero and [Yves] Bissouma, it could’ve been a very different year, and I might not even be sitting here if it had gone that way, so I’ll take great pride in that, because I thought it was important for a club like Tottenham to not go into freefall.”

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It is easy to forget just how bad a shape Tottenham were in when Ange arrived last summer, which is why his first season in charge has to be considered a relative success.

However, there is no doubt that a top-four finish would be the bare minimum expected from Spurs during the upcoming campaign.

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