Tottenham ‘not a big club’, says Postecoglou after Frank’s dismissal

Ange Postecoglou insisted Tottenham Hotspur were “not a big club” after the sacking of head coach Thomas Frank on Wednesday.

The Dane succeeded Postecoglou in Tottenham’s hotseat, but was unable to oversee a revival in Premier League form.

After a 2-1 defeat at home to Newcastle on Tuesday, the North London club is only five points above the relegation zone.

“Having been in that position twice in the last six months, it’s tough,” Postecoglou said The stick of the overlap in football podcast.

«You know he can’t be the only problem at the club. It’s a remarkable club, Tottenham. At the end of last year it took a big turn, not only with me, but also with the departure of (executive chairman) Daniel (Levy), and you’ve created a whole kind of environment of uncertainty.»

For all its traditional status as a ‘Big Six’ club now playing in one of the country’s best stadiums, Tottenham have only been crowned champions of England twice – the same number of times as second-tier Portsmouth.

And Tottenham’s last title came decades before the Premier League era, when a celebrated side led by Bill Nicholson regained both the old First Division trophy and the FA Cup to do the ‘Double’ in the 1960/61 season.

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Long before Postecoglou took charge, high-profile managers including Terry Venables, George Graham, Harry Redknapp, Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte tried and failed to get Tottenham back to the top flight of English football hgtgdfgdtr8.

«There’s no guarantee whatever manager you bring in; they’ve had world-class managers there, and they haven’t had success,» Postecoglou said.

Despite overseeing the end of Tottrnham’s seventeen-year wait for a major trophy when it defeated Manchester United in the 2005 Europa League final, poor league form still saw Postecoglou sacked.

The 60-year-old Australian insisted the inability to invest in players was the cause of the club’s problems.

“They have built an incredible stadium, incredible training facilities, but if you look at their expenditure and especially their wage structure, they are not a big club,” he said.

“I saw that because when we were trying to sign players, we weren’t in the market for those players.”

Postecoglou added that Tottenham failed to live up to their own ideals.

“When you walk into Tottenham, you see ‘To Dare Is To Do’ (the club’s motto) everywhere, and yet their actions are almost the antithesis of that,” he said. “I don’t think they realized that to actually win you have to take some risks.

“I felt like Tottenham as a club were saying ‘we’re one of the big boys’, and the reality is I don’t think that’s the case.”

Published on February 12, 2026