Ange Postecoglou
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The reality of it is I think they were reluctant to get rid of Nuno.
It was only because of, I don't know what happened behind the scenes, but there was no way they would have sacked Nuno after last year.
So you're not walking into an environment, a playing group, where they're really looking for change.
So from that point of view, I was thinking to myself, well, yeah, but with that group of players, I reckon I can turn them around pretty quickly and
And we had a couple of games that could have gone our way.
But, you know, again, strategically, I'm the worst decision maker sort of in terms of that time around for my career.
But we had four away games.
My first four were away.
By the time... I mean, we only had our games, I think, at three at home.
Like, we just never got any traction.
And it's no wonder the supporters never took to me that even the players were kind of... Why was that, Ange?
I think... Was it Nuno?
Maybe, I think a bit of that.
I think my life series, you know, it was still too close to Tottenham.
They were still seeing me as the Tottenham manager.
And I think there's...
I think there's some merit in that.
You need to leave some space for people just to process everything.
But I just wanted to work, mate.
Like I said, I saw a group of players.