Former Celtic boss, Ange Postecoglou, seems under pressure at Tottenham after the Premier League side’s latest defeat.
Spurs were looking good to pick up three points against Matt O’Riley’s new club when Postecoglou watched his team blow a 2-0 lead in less than 20 minutes, to lose 3-2 at the Falmer Stadium.
The defeat means that Spurs lost the chance to record six straight wins for the first time since 2018 and it seems to have reaped renewed pressure on the former Celtic boss as more scrutiny is poured on Postecoglou’s playing style.
And if the Spurs fans think that the defeat to Brighton is going to change that, then they will need to think again, according to former Celtic hero, Chris Sutton.
Sutton reminds Spurs how Ange Postecoglou set Celtic up vs Real Madrid
The Celtic fans loved the style of play during his two years at the club so when Postecoglou left the Bhoys for Spurs the supporters were left gutted.
And as the Australian comes under pressure to abandon his football principles at Tottenham, Sutton tells the Premier League club that it simply will not happen.
Sutton told the Monday Night Club podcast, “That’s not who he is. That’s not in his nature. I saw him at Celtic for a couple of seasons. He doesn’t change.
“I watched Celtic play against Real Madrid in the Champions League. In Madrid, they were 5-1 down, 5-0 down, 65 minutes, and still loading the box with six or seven players in the opposition box.
“I mean, it was amazing, really. You’re thinking, ‘Blimey, just shut up shop’.
“But that was about a bigger philosophy then and this is going to make us better. And, you know, he won’t change. He is what he is.
“But I do have great sympathy for the way things panned out at the weekend because that was about catastrophic individual errors.
“That wasn’t necessarily about the style of play. That was about individual errors and Brighton then smelling blood and playing exceptionally well.”
Ange Postecoglou’s league win record at Celtic vs Spurs
Many people will look at Ange Postecoglou’s record at Celtic and dismiss it due to the quality of the Scottish Premiership.
But what cannot be denied is that the pressure to succeed at Parkhead is like no other club and when Postecoglou took over Celtic, the Bhoys were in the midst of a huge rebuild.
Having lost the league, Celtic also lost captain Scott Brown, a raft of first-team players like Ryan Christie, Odsonne Edouard, Kristoffer Ajer and their CEO Peter Lawwell, Postecoglou had a monumental task ahead of him and didn’t have the millions available to him that Spurs gave him.
Which makes his record at Celtic all the more impressive.
| Ange Postecoglou | Played | Win | Drew | Lost | Win % |
| Celtic | 76 | 61 | 9 | 6 | 80.26 |
| Tottenham | 45 | 23 | 7 | 15 | 51.11 |
| Career | 518 | 277 | 94 | 147 | 53.47 |
Can Postecoglou replicate his success at Celtic with Spurs? If he can recruit like he did in Glasgow and get the players and fans to buy into what he is trying to build like he managed to do at Celtic then anything is possible.
It’s more a case of whether or not Spurs have the nerve to give Postecoglou the chance and time to build a legacy at the Premier League club just as he did at Celtic.
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