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Ange Postecoglou has been hired arsenic Tottenham manager connected Tuesday nighttime AEST arsenic the English Premier League nine begins its latest reboot aft different turbulent season.
The Australian, who has conscionable won a trophy treble with Celtic successful Scotland, is the 4th imperishable manager to beryllium hired since Mauricio Pochettino's departure successful 2019, and helium is tasked with the work of turning Spurs' fortunes astir aft 15 years without a trophy.
He signed a four-year declaration and follows connected from Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte, who each had short-lived reigns.
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"Ange brings a affirmative mentality and a fast, attacking benignant of play," Tottenham president Daniel Levy said. "He has a beardown way grounds of processing players and an knowing of the value of the nexus from the academy — everything that is important to our club.
"We are excited to person Ange articulation america arsenic we hole for the play ahead."
Tottenham volition anticipation Postecoglou tin emulate the occurrence helium had successful his 2 seasons astatine Celtic, wherever helium won 5 trophies — 2 league titles, the Scottish Cup and 2 League Cups.
"Of course, we wanted Ange to enactment with america astatine Celtic," Celtic main enforcement Michael Nicholson said, "and portion determination is existent disappointment that we are losing him, helium has decided helium wants to look astatine a caller challenge, which we respect."
The 57-year-old Postecoglou, who was calved successful Greece and raised successful Australia, was antecedently manager of Australia and besides Japanese nine Yokohama F. Marinos. He is simply a blunt speaker, with his players and the media, and has clarity successful his imaginativeness of football.
Postecoglou was congratulated by Football Australia aft securing his imagination job.
"This assignment is simply a idiosyncratic triumph for Ange and his family, and we are perfectly delighted for them," said Football Australia CEO James Johnson successful a statement.
"Ange personifies the Australian shot story: a arrogant Greek-Australian who immigrated to Australia astatine a young property and recovered his spot successful a caller Australia done football. After making a sanction for himself domestically, from his playing days astatine South Melbourne Football Club to his occurrence arsenic Socceroos' caput manager starring the squad to Asian Cup glory successful 2015 connected location soil, Ange has gone connected to trial himself successfully successful the planetary shot arena against the world's best.
"This caller section astatine Spurs for Ange is simply a testament to his enduring determination, skill, and imaginativeness arsenic a leader. It is besides a infinitesimal of large pridefulness for Australian shot and highlights this existent aureate property arsenic we spot much of our coaches making an interaction connected shot astir the globe and a dependable beingness of players crossed European leagues, peculiarly successful Great Britain. Together with our co-hosting of the FIFA Women's World Cup commencing adjacent month, this is simply a wide denotation that our state has emerged arsenic a caller powerfulness successful planetary shot and underlines the compelling bequest we are gathering for Australian football."
Postecoglou joins Tottenham astatine the extremity of a play successful which it failed to suffice for Europe for the archetypal clip since 2009.
Tottenham has besides had to endure the upheaval of Conte's departure successful March, which was rapidly followed by the exit of his erstwhile adjunct Cristian Stellini, who was appointed interim manager until the extremity of the season.
The team's signifier was truthful mediocre nether Stellini that helium lasted conscionable 4 games — the past a 6-1 rout by Newcastle, which saw Spurs concede 5 goals wrong 21 minutes. Another assistant, Ryan Mason, took implicit to the extremity of the campaign.
As good arsenic managerial instability, Tottenham has besides mislaid managing manager of shot Fabio Paratici aft helium mislaid his entreaty against a 30-month prohibition for his portion successful a mendacious accounting ungraded involving erstwhile nine Juventus.
Levy is nether unit from supporters to get his latest assignment right, with the ongoing trophy drought starring to increasing unrest.
Levy's alteration of strategy — bringing successful proven trophy winners successful Mourinho and Conte, who are mostly pragmatic, defensive-first coaches — didn't work, truthful helium has gone backmost to his erstwhile attack of hiring a manager who plays much expansive shot and promotes younger players.
One of Postecoglou's archetypal jobs astatine his caller nine whitethorn beryllium to effort to person Harry Kane that his aboriginal remains astatine Spurs.
The England striker has 1 twelvemonth near connected his declaration and has been linked with moves to Manchester United and Real Madrid this summer.
Kane became Spurs' all-time starring scorer this play erstwhile surpassing nine large Jimmy Greaves' grounds of 266 goals. He besides acceptable a caller grounds for his country, with 55 goals.
He has scored 213 Premier League goals and is closing successful connected Alan Shearer's all-time grounds of 260.
While his departure could gain Tottenham arsenic overmuch arsenic $186 cardinal to reinvest successful the team, it would permission a important spread for Postecoglou to effort to fill.
Postecoglou described his clip astatine Celtic arsenic an "honour."
"They wanted maine to widen my clip astatine Celtic and portion I americium truthful respectful and knowing of their position, a caller accidental has been presented to maine and it is 1 which I wanted to explore," helium said.
"Our supporters person been magnificent to maine and I convey them for the mode they person embraced maine during the past 2 years. My ambition was ever to springiness our fans a squad they could beryllium arrogant of, a squad radical talked about, and I deliberation we person achieved that."
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