🎙Ange Postecoglou insists he will ‘𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊” away as Tottenham boss and vows to keep “𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆” and says there’s ‘𝐍𝐎 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄’ he would rather be at:
”I understand how, externally, it may look and feel for somebody like me, but part of what I love about what I do is that there is this constant search for solutions and how to overcome challenges. I enjoy that bit.”
"I always reflect on the alternative, which is me not being involved. OK, maybe I look a bit younger and a bit more handsome, but I would be pretty bored. If I was sitting at home, I would be saying, ‘I wish I was there’. Knowing me, I probably would be saying, ‘I wish I was at Tottenham right now, I would love to see how we can get out of that situation’.”
"I understand that, externally, you’re probably going, ‘God, he must be living a nightmare at the moment’, but it’s not my existence. It’s a big challenge, I get it. I’ve said before that the responsibility weighs heavily on me, I feel it. I feel the pain of it. I feel the disappointment of it, but I’m a fighter and this is where I want to be.”
"I want to find a way to get us out of this so we can reap the rewards of the tough battles we’ve had, because of that context, it doesn’t affect me in the way that people may assume."
”I think I’m better equipped to handle this now at my age than when I was younger. I feel like I have the energy still definitely to do the task. It’s not like I’m weighed down by it. It helps me in these kinds of situation.”
"For younger managers that is the challenge. There is such a short-term outlook on most things in life and particularly football these days. How do you withstand all these assertions on how you’re supposed to be doing your job, which is a constant now. You’re never given any breathing room to say, ‘oh well, let’s just see how this pans out’, it’s kind of more like, ‘no, this is not working there’s got to be change’. Again, it comes down to individuals and upbringing.”
"I'd be very surprised if there were any managers who don't have a real clear sort of idea of how they want their teams to play. There might be some flexibility in there but most of them. People tend to focus on the extremes of it.“
"For every manager, whether you're young, there's something you've got to cling on to when the inevitable tough times come and they come for everybody.”
"There is not one person, one manager who won't go through tough times, who won't lose his job at some point. That happens to everyone. You've got to have something to cling on. What do you believe in?”
"If you don't and if you're just changing along the way all the time because of pressures then eventually what happens is you disappear. The ones who have never had anything to cling on may have a small presence in the game but then they quickly disappear if they've tried to chase something that they don't believe in."
“Whenever I’ve been in these situations, there are always things you try to change up, and we’ve tried to do things a little bit differently, certainly in my messaging the last few weeks. In the way we’re dealing with certain aspects.”
"You’ll find most people in these positions are always trying to find a way to change the course of events and we’re all staying up late at night trying to figure out 'is there something I can do', but the one thing I do know is that there’s no miracle cure. Part of it is just turning up and fighting for what you believe in.”
"So that stays consistent, but how you deliver that and how you prepare that can change at times, but you try to get as creative as you can to see if you can make an impact and that’s certainly the mode we’ve been in for the last month or so, how can we get this group through this tough time and how can we help them getting there."
[Football.London]