{"id":12959,"date":"2025-04-09T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ange-postecoglou-tottenham-face-negative-agenda-and-some-say-im-gone-even-if-spurs-win-trophy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:31:12","slug":"ange-postecoglou-tottenham-face-negative-agenda-and-some-say-im-gone-even-if-spurs-win-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ange-postecoglou-tottenham-face-negative-agenda-and-some-say-im-gone-even-if-spurs-win-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou: Tottenham face negative agenda and some say I&#8217;m gone even if Spurs win trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou says he is battling a &#8220;negative agenda&#8221; against the club where even good days are seen from a &#8220;glass half-empty&#8221; perspective.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurs are a lowly 14th after 31 games in the Premier League as they toil in an injury-hit season, and under-pressure Postecoglou says he detects an outside view that he is &#8220;gone anyway&#8221; even if they win the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They face Eintracht Frankfurt in their European quarter-final on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The competition offers Spurs their final hope of silverware this campaign as Postecoglou, 59, looks to maintain his record of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp8e7lz196lo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8220;always winning&#8221; trophies in his second season<\/a> at a club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/crkxdgxzdvmt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham beat Southampton 3-1<\/a> on Sunday, but the post-match narrative was around on-loan Bayern Munich striker Mathys Tel taking a stoppage-time penalty rather than letting Brennan Johnson attempt to complete a hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just think we&#8217;re in that position now where even the good stuff we do is going to be turned into a glass half-empty rhetoric,&#8221; said Postecoglou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The one slight against this club is that it hasn&#8217;t been a winner. The winners&#8217; mentality in the last minute is to score. We scored and somehow, in this alternate universe, everything Tottenham does is negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2vvr842keo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou says he is battling a &#8220;negative agenda&#8221; against the club where even good days are seen from a &#8220;glass half-empty&#8221; perspective. Spurs are a lowly 14th after 31 games in the Premier League as they toil in an injury-hit season, and under-pressure Postecoglou says he detects an outside view that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12961,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions\/12961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}