Postecoglou slams Tottenham’s frail mentality owing to recent form

Tottenham Hotspur are winless in three successive matches in all competitions and have succeeded in claiming the desired result just once in their previous six outings, therefore raising doubts over Ange Postecoglou’s continuity in the head coach’s role.

The Australian was quizzed about the team’s recent outings and asked whether he believed the issue was down to the mentality of the players or their physicality. He had the following to say, according to The Guardian.

“It’s a bit of everything but it can’t be a physical thing when it happens early in the game. We started well. And literally the first time they go up, they get a set piece and they score an unopposed header. You can’t go into a game like that and allow the opposition then to take control. It doesn’t sit well with me. Nor should it. I’m not going to accept it. My responsibility is to change that because if we’re going to get to where I want us to get to, we need to break that cycle of not showing the belief and resilience in key moments.”

It does not take much to see why Postecoglou is unhappy with his players and is the third ambitious head coach behind Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte who has expressed question marks over the mentality and commitment of the dressing room. So far, however, he has been very diplomatic when asked about the club’s hierarchy as opposed to his predecessors who responded to the media about the board’s incompetence in an extremely scathing manner at times.

Postecoglou seems like another manager whose mentality does not seem to have been welcomed in the dressing room with players failing to keep up consistency. A good part of the blame also belongs to the higher ups for not being able to give the manager adequate squad depth in the defence as well as offence, both of which departments were thirsting for quality additions since the last year.

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The problem with hungry managers coming into Spurs has been a team that lacks any intensity to meet their demands and a chairman who prefers minting money through avenues other than football. The fans have also turned on Postecoglou, who was booed after the team’s 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth, so it remains to be seen just how much the former Celtic coach can take before losing his patience at everybody concerned with Tottenham Hotspur.