Ange Postecoglou insists Tottenham job is not toughest challenge of his career

The Spurs caput manager has travel successful for disapproval successful caller weeks for his side’s sluggish commencement to the season.

Postecoglou said past play that helium expects Spurs to situation for the Premier League rubric this campaign, but they beryllium 13th successful the array with 1 triumph from their opening 4 fixtures up of hosting Brentford connected Saturday afternoon.

“I deliberation the astir hard occupation I had was the archetypal one, due to the fact that if I failed my archetypal 1 I wouldn’t person got thing else,” said Postecoglou, erstwhile asked whether Spurs was proving his toughest occupation yet.

“I was coaching my hometown nine [South Melbourne FC], the nine I grew up with. The lone crushed I got the accidental was they knew maine astatine that club. I don’t deliberation I would person got the accidental anyplace other if I wasn’t successful.

“After 5 games, we were sitting with nary wins, bottommost of the table. That was beauteous difficult.”

He continued: “They were each challenging [jobs], but that is wherefore I emotion it. I bask the struggle, the hard bits. Who knows however it each ends? I don’t know, nary 1 knows. For me, it’s conscionable astir doing what I judge is the close happening to do, successful my eyes, to get occurrence and hopefully alteration the fortunes of this fantastic shot club.”

At the proposition that online hatred appears to person got to Johnson, Postecoglou said: “Yeah, I’m definite it does. It’s a shame that young radical person to adjacent disconnected from thing they look to bask due to the fact that of maltreatment connected it. I don’t deliberation that’s right.

“I haven’t spoken to Brennan astir it. The lads cognize what I’m about. I support telling the lads the astir important radical successful your beingness are the ones you’ve got to interest about. Not anyone else’s opinion, successful presumption of validation.”

Postecoglou gave an impassioned defence of the Wales winger, adding; “He won a crippled of shot for america the different nighttime with a truly bully decorativeness astatine the captious moment. I reckon if you enactment immoderate 1 of his critics successful that situation, they’d beryllium looking for a alteration of pants beauteous quickly. They don’t deliberation astir that successful that moment.

“At the aforesaid time, Brennan’s had a imagination of being a nonrecreational footballer his full beingness from a kid, and present he’s surviving the imagination and I’d hatred to deliberation he’s not enjoying it.

“We’re each beauteous blessed to bash what we do, adjacent astatine the worst of times. We’re each blessed to bash what we wanted to bash erstwhile we were 10 years old. Not galore radical tin accidental that.”