{"id":79340,"date":"2025-05-06T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/79340\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:19:09","slug":"ange-postecoglou-told-he-has-been-set-up-to-fail-by-tottenham-hotspur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/79340\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou told he has been set up to fail by Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ramon Vega does not believe that Ange Postecoglou has been given a chance to succeed at Tottenham Hotspur, insisting that the club\u2019s poor recruitment over the last two years has made the Australian\u2019s job impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spurs find themselves in a very strange situation at the moment. Even though they are just one game away from a European final, Postecoglou\u2019s future as Tottenham manager is uncertain<\/a> beyond this summer.<\/p>\n

That is natural when one considers the team\u2019s abject results domestically this season, but many Tottenham fans have directed their anger at the club\u2019s owners<\/a> rather than at Postecoglou.<\/p>\n

That is a sentiment that Ramon Vega shares, with the former Spurs<\/a> defender pointing out that too many top managers have failed at N17 for the finger to be pointed at the coaching.<\/p>\n

The pundit believes that just like his predecessors, Postecoglou<\/a> has been hung out to dry by the owners, given their lack of emphasis on adding the required quality to the squad over the last few transfer windows.<\/p>\n

\"RamonPhoto by Daniel Smith\/Getty Images for SoccerexRamon Vega says no manager in the world could succeed with current Tottenham squad<\/p>\n

Vega believes that the issues at Spurs lie with their poor recruitment, insisting that no manager in the world can guide a squad full of teenagers to a top-four or top-five finish.<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old remarked that despite all that Daniel Levy<\/a> and the current owners have done to improve the infrastructure at N17, they are not going to get the supporters onside unless they deliver trophies.<\/p>\n

Interestingly though, Vega believes that Ange Postecoglou is the right man to take Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> where they want to get to and called on the club to back the 59-year-old this summer rather than sacking him.<\/p>\n

When asked his thoughts on how Tottenham are being run, Vega told Spurs Web in an exclusive interview: \u201cLet\u2019s start with the positives: Tottenham have a great infrastructure. They built up a fantastic stadium and some great training ground facilities. I wish I\u2019d had something like that when I was there. If you saw our training ground at the time, you would laugh. Now, it\u2019s like a 5-star luxury resort.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of that environment has been pretty much built all great, but the one major thing is the football is still the main dominating principle driver of any football club. If you\u2019re not successful on the pitch, you can have the best luxurious stadium in the world. You still are not going to convince the fans, simple as that.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might make money through non-football orientated revenue streams, and that\u2019s what Spurs have been doing, but the whole emphasis on winning something is not there for a lot of wrong reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, they didn\u2019t put emphasis into recruitment for a long, long time, which I think is a crucial part. That\u2019s where you have 4-5 to up to 10 years forecast, where you can build that success over a period of time and have a certain stability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat stability with so many coaches going through Spurs\u2026we are talking now within the last 5 to 6 years, nearly 3-5 coaches, and we are talking the best coaches in the world have not won anything with the club. This shows it\u2019s not the coach\u2019s fault anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Ange is a great coach who did a fantastic job at Celtic. I told everybody when Ange joined Spurs that they should be grateful that he signed up, because who wants to come to Spurs? <\/p>\n

\u201cThis environment or support for players\u2026 Ange Postecoglou had these issues this year at Tottenham from not having this support in the summer or January transfer market and on top of that, more than half of the squad is injured. No manager in the world can actually be successful. It\u2019s impossible.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got 7-8 teenagers on the pitch who have no experience\u2026it\u2019s impossible to finish in the top 4-5 positions. That\u2019s where we are now, and I think this is what the board has to look into. In the future, they have to support Ange, but also look into recruitment, and that\u2019s one of the key elements they have to invest in.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE \u2013 Ramon Vega reveals how he risked his career to play and win and cup final with Tottenham<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ange(Credit: @thefrederikkejensen \/ Instagram)Ramon Vega doubts whether things will change at Spurs<\/p>\n

Vega believes that the priority of the Tottenham ownership<\/a> should now be to do all they can to make the team successful on the pitch.<\/p>\n

However, he doubts if that will be the prevailing thinking at Hotspur Way<\/a>, suggesting that they might continue to prioritise the bottom line.<\/p>\n

Vega added: \u201cNow the infrastructure is done, let\u2019s get the football done, but I have doubts, he is going to do it because they\u2019re looking at any penny like a business, but football is not just about that as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to have a balance behind that, and I think if the football pitch is successful, I think the outcome of earning more money will be much higher than what they\u2019re earning now, and I think that should focus\u00a0on\u00a0that\u00a0now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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