Tottenham centre-back Micky van de Ven has hinted that he and Cristian Romero were satisfactorily posed a fast player-manager role throughout Ange Postecoglou’s time at the bar.
Spurs owned a nightmare 2024/25 season under Postecoglou in the Premier League with the Australian’s side finishing 17th in the table.
Yet, Postecoglou did handle to lead Tottenham to their first prize in 17 years by escaping behind Manchester Unified in the Europa League final, conferring Spurs a space in this season’s Winners League.
It was his type in the Premier League which price him his job with former Brentford head train Thomas Honest replacing him over the summertime.
Postecoglou’s mobbing point ofview was initially refreshing for Tottenham fans, who ached to go to the bar glide away from Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte’s a lot more justifiable flairs, yet at some point it came to be too a lot.
The former Celtic head train was against readjusting his theme of play throughout runs of impoverished results with Van de Ven and Romero periodically motivated the most by his mobbing football.
Astonishingly, Van de Ven has now disclosed that he owned to enlighten Postecoglou to go a lot more defensive after snatching the lead in their 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in last season’s Europa League quarter-final 2nd leg.
Speaking on The Overlap, Van de Ven disclosed: “At one point, we merely treaded upwards to the gaffer and asserted that we should readjust some points and play a lot more defensive periodically.
“We tinkered away at Frankfurt and were 1-0 upwards, and we can’t preserve mobbing, we merely should come back and have a low block and carry out sure we recover the three junctures.
“We rested with him and he particularized with us on some points, and he oriented us that he intended us 2 individuals to sort this on the peddle – to carry out sure that this is something every guy recognizes and to speak to every guy on the peddle.”
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Van de Ven added: “As shortly as we were gleaning further in the Europa League, periodically we would rest down with him and claim, ‘We should readjust periodically’. That wasn’t lone with him – that was also with his servant and assorted other advisers.”
On his relationship with the manager, he added: “He is a in reality memorable manager – I still in reality like him. I don’t recognize how it all went down behind the scenes, winning the Europa League after that gleaning sacked. I didn’t anticipate Ange to be sacked.
“There were most rumours, and every guy was on Ange, like the media – there was not a day I was scrolling on my mobile phone and saw totally nothing about our gaffer. There was always something about him.”
On Postecoglou being sacked, Van de Ven lingered: “He was the manager that carried silverware to Tottenham – after that thereafter as shortly as he got sacked, I sent a text to my papa and my friends, and asserted, ‘I never intended this’. I texted Ange also and asserted, ‘Unanimously the ideal in the future.’”
