Ange Postecoglou has confessed that the way Tottenham Hotspur prepared for the 2024-25 season was not ideal and remarked that he is keen to correct those errors ahead of the next campaign.
While Tottenham have had their poorest Premier League season on record, it is fair to say that most Spurs fans do not care about that at the moment after the club made history in Bilbao last Wednesday by securing their first European trophy in 41 years.
However, reports indicate that Daniel Levy and the Tottenham board are still contemplating sacking Postecoglou as the feeling at the club is that their performances domestically have simply not been up to scratch.
While the Australian will point to injuries as a mitigating factor, some will feel that Postecoglou’s training methods and his style of play contributed to Tottenham’s injury crisis.
Ange Postecoglou admits he got things wrong last summer
The Tottenham head coach has now confessed that the preparation for this season was not ideal, insisting that he will learn from the mistakes that were made.
The 59-year-old also stressed the need for the club to change their transfer strategy and add more experience to the Tottenham squad this summer.
When asked if there are any lessons to take from this season, Postecoglou responded (via Football.London): “Yeah look you learn from every season. I think looking back at our pre-season last year, I don’t think it was ideal and there were certain things we needed to do differently and certainly needed to design differently for the coming year.
“How we get our guys ready for what is going to be the biggest challenge of Premier League and Champions League football, we know it is a massive challenge, so how do we prepare our players? I think our players will be better equipped.
“You know we started the season and people forget we signed Dom, who has been unbelievable for us but then we signed three teenagers. They weren’t ready for what was ahead. They’ve been unbelievable, obviously, Wilson has missed a lot of the season but Lucas and Archie have been unbelievable.
“We signed three teenagers but next year they are not going to be teenagers, they are more than ready and will be in a better space straight away. That is the other lesson learned, that we can’t and I don’t think anyway, that would be my direction that you need to now bring in some experience for this group in terms of our recruiting.
“So, you learn lessons from that and I’ve said all along, I have still felt there has been growth this year and we’ll be much better placed at the beginning of next year to tackle what is ahead than we were at the start of this one.”
Postecoglou overwhelmed by Tottenham reaction during trophy parade
The Tottenham faithful came out in droves on Friday, which was to be expected as the long-suffering fans had not had a trophy to celebrate for nearly two decades.
Postecoglou admitted that he was overwhelmed by the number of people who came out and the sheer joy on the faces of the supporters.
Speaking about the trophy parade, the Australian said: “Yeah, look I was overwhelmed by the sea of people and every demographic you can think of. There were grown men crying, women, girls and boys just so ecstatic that you feel irrespective of what is happening in their lives at the moment, they were all just so joyous.
“When you see the sheer magnitude of the numbers, you realise it is a massive club. I had a sense of that before I joined but I guess even for the club itself, it reaffirms that missing piece of success and what it can do to galvanise a supporter base and really show the size of the club. It’s fair to say it is a massive club and the opportunity now is to make it bigger than ever.”
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