Ange Postecoglou

You know, they changed sporting directors when they were in there as well.

So there was instability in the club anyway.

And to be honest, I don't think they wanted what I had to offer because, you know, the owner, you can say what you want about him, but they probably wouldn't be in the Premier League unless he took over the club for us, right?

But he just wants to win.

He doesn't care how he wins.

You know, it's fear, you know.

There's so much money in the game now.

People, clubs are fearful of losing Premier League status.

They're fearful of missing out on Champions League.

They're fearful, some are fearful of getting into Europe because of what it means that we don't have the squad to cope.

Indeed, yeah.

This fear overrides everything else that it constricts and doesn't allow them to say, well, like you said, every manager will go through a sticky patch, you know, unless you're really, really fortunate and you've got the resources to overcome that.

And in many respects, you have to go through a sticky patch because that's how you find out about people.

When you start losing, you find out about the bloke over there and him over there and that player.

What are they doing when things aren't going well?

What are the fans like?

So you need to go through that, live through that.

It's what I say.

I mean, it's still the one that kind of, you know, with Spurs, we did all that.

We went through the tough bit.