Tottenham tipped to hire Premier League manager to replace Ange Postecoglou

The pressure is mounting on Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou (Picture: Getty)

Tottenham have been tipped to hire a Premier League manager to replace Ange Postecoglou as pressure grows on the struggling Spurs boss.

The north London club’s dismal form continued on Sunday as they lost 2-1 at home to relegation-battlers Leicester City.

Richarlison put the hosts in front before half-time but Leicester scored twice in four second-half minutes to complete a stunning comeback and climb out of the relegation zone.

It was Tottenham’s fourth successive Premier League defeat and leaves Postecoglou’s side 15th in the table, eight points above the relegation zone.

The hierarchy at Spurs have continued to show faith in Postecoglou during an alarming run but their patience will truly be tested after watching the team lose at home to a Leicester team that had lost seven league games in a row before their trip to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Ex-England striker Emile Heskey cannot see Postecoglou surviving until next season and believes two current Premier League managers could succeed the ex-Celtic boss at Tottenham.

‘I can’t see Ange Postecoglou being at Tottenham next season,’ Heskey told Instant Casino.

Postecoglou after Tottenham’s defeat to Leicester City (Picture: Getty)

‘They’re in a poor run of form and it’s a difficult one for both the owners and the board. I believe they like him, but the performances and results on the pitch really don’t look good.

‘They play really open football, so for the neutral it’s great to watch but it’s difficult to watch as a fan when the team can’t keep the ball out of their own net.

‘Finding a long-term replacement for him at this point in the season will be difficult so I think they will stick with him, but it’s tough to imagine Ange in the dugout at the start of next season.

Leicester stunned Spurs to climb out of the relegation zone (Picture: Getty)

‘As far as replacements go, I really like Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola. He’s doing some great work there; however, you are going from a club like Bournemouth where there is no real pressure other than staying in the league, to a club where the expectations are super high, and they must be met.

‘Thomas Frank is also an option; he deserves praise for the job he’s done at Brentford. They’ve been defensively sound, and their home form is brilliant, Tottenham could do worse than looking at either Iraola or Frank.’

Iraola’s Bournemouth thrashed Nottingham Forest 5-0 on Saturday to climb to seventh in the Premier League and reach the 40-point mark before February.

Bournemouth are thriving under Andoni Iraola (Picture: Getty)

Frank’s Brentford, meanwhile, beat Crystal Palace 2-1 on Sunday to climb to 11th – 15 points above the relegation zone.

Postecoglou admitted he was ‘hurting’ after Tottenham’s latest defeat but said his players ‘gave everything’.

‘It hurts,’ the Australian said. ‘It hurts a lot.

‘The players gave everything again. We are going to look at a lot of things, but in terms of effort I can’t ask anymore of this group, things just didn’t go our way today.

Emile Heskey expects a change at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (Picture: Getty)

‘We created some good opportunities and unfortunately things just didn’t drop for us because not because the players weren’t trying and that’s the main thing.

‘The players are giving everything they can. That is all we can ask for as a football club and me as a manager. They are trying their hardest and that is all anyone can ask for.

‘You can analyse the goals, they were disappointing goals for us to concede, but I thought we had enough chances in the game to come out on top.

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‘When you’re in this situation, they are trying as hard as they can and sometimes that doesn’t give you he clarity in decision making. You can ask is for people to do as much as they can and from my perspective I see a group of players that are giving as much as they can.

‘I know it will turn. We’ll get some players back, we were short again today but in the next couple of weeks there’s some really important players coming back that I know will help this group.

‘We’ve not hit a ceiling. We’ve been going like this for two months. They put in an enormous performance on Thursday to make sure we’re OK in Europe and they had to back it up today but there were probably at least two or three players that weren’t at 100%.

‘I’m a football manager and I get judged on results, that is the way of the world.’

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