{"id":483104,"date":"2024-05-15T06:21:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483104"},"modified":"2024-05-15T04:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:51:13","slug":"postecolgu-says-tottenhams-foundations-are-really-fragile","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/postecolgu-says-tottenhams-foundations-are-really-fragile\/","title":{"rendered":"Postecolgu says Tottenham&#8217;s foundations are &#8216;really fragile&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou expressed concern over the fragile state of the club following their 2-0 defeat to Manchester City on Tuesday, which effectively ended their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Postecoglou highlighted the inherent instability within the club, both internally and externally. &#8220;The foundations are really fragile,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The last 48 hours have shown me that. It&#8217;s inside the club, outside the club. Outside, inside, everywhere. It&#8217;s been an interesting exercise. It&#8217;s just my observations, mate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defeat had broader implications beyond Tottenham&#8217;s own ambitions, as they could have impacted the Premier League title race by taking points off City, which would have benefited their north London rivals, Arsenal. In the lead-up to the match, Postecoglou was taken aback by some Spurs fans expressing a preference for a loss to City, as it would hinder Arsenal&#8217;s title challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Ange Postecoglou: \u201cUnfortunately in the last 48h I saw that the foundations are really fragile\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s inside the club, outside the club\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho told us this \u2705<br \/>\nConte told us this \u2705<br \/>\nNow Ange is telling us this \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaytersTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HaytersTV<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8He8GsN72K\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8He8GsN72K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1790620323055821236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite putting up a strong fight, Tottenham succumbed to Erling Haaland&#8217;s 51st-minute goal. The reaction from the home supporters, who chanted &#8220;are you watching Arsenal?&#8221; highlighted a divided and subdued atmosphere at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned about whether this atmosphere influenced his players, Postecoglou acknowledged its impact. &#8220;Of course it does. It is what it is. I can&#8217;t dictate what people do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou expressed concern over the fragile state of the club following their 2-0 defeat to Manchester City on Tuesday, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483105,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19708,16966],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19709,18152],"acf":{"announce":"Spurs manager warned that the club is shaken from inside and outside post Man City defeat ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483106,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483104\/revisions\/483106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483104"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483104"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}