{"id":416066,"date":"2025-09-11T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416066\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:03:15","slug":"premier-league-news-conferences-postecoglou-i-dont-have-to-prove-anything-to-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416066\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League news conferences: Postecoglou – ‘I don’t have to prove anything to anyone’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Shocked phone calls’ – Nuno’s sackingpublished at 15:17 BST<\/p>\n

15:17 BST<\/p>\n

Arsenal v Nottingham Forest (Sat, 12:30 BST)<\/p>\n

\"\"Nick Mashiter<\/strong>
BBC Sport football news reporter<\/p>\n

Some players found out about Nuno Espirito Santo’s exit from their team mates, shocked messages and phone calls going around with many on international duty this week before reporting back. <\/p>\n

Nuno was popular, he fostered a unity in the squad and club which helped push their Champions League challenge last season. <\/p>\n

Ange Postecoglou must harness that to drive the club and squad on again. It will not be lost from within a close-knit squad and the new manager will surely recognise that. <\/p>\n

The former Australia boss, though, is usually quiet and reserved initially, preferring to get ready for business and enjoying his own space. <\/p>\n

He confirmed that earlier by saying he’d given the players space to digest Nuno’s exit. <\/p>\n

Nick Montgomery, Mile Jedinak and Sergio Raimundo have joined as assistants along with Rob Burch as goalkeeping coach – having worked with Postecoglou at Tottenham – and they are likely to be the link with the rest of the staff, rather than the manager himself. <\/p>\n

Not to say Postecoglou will ignore others but he is there to work, professional, direct and focused. <\/p>\n

Those close to him have described him as honest, a good man, and unapologetic about how he wants to play. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Shocked phone calls’ – Nuno’s sackingpublished at 15:17 BST 15:17 BST Arsenal v Nottingham Forest (Sat, 12:30 BST)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115186277416018876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}