Ange Postecoglou issues firm response to Jamie Redknapp after pundit slams Tottenham

Former Spurs and Liverpool subordinate Jamie Redknapp, who was connected punditry work for Sky Sports, said helium could not "remember a squad going down successful my beingness with little of a fight", and Postecoglou was asked if the remark was fair.

"You’re asking me, inquire Jamie," the Spurs caput manager said. "He has evidently made the comment. I cognize radical get truly excited by things similar that.

"People are connected TV to springiness opinions and that’s what they do. That’s their job. My occupation is not to scan the TV oregon the commentary connected our games.

"My occupation is to negociate this shot nine and immoderate radical deliberation oregon don’t deliberation is benignant of irrelevant. It doesn’t truly matter. It doesn’t truly enactment immoderate benignant of accent connected who we are and what we are trying to do. At the extremity of the time everybody is allowed to person an opinion.

"Everyone is allowed to explicit that opinion. My presumption is I don’t truly request to respond to that oregon beryllium affected by that due to the fact that I don’t care.

"Whether it’s Jamie Redknapp oregon anyone else. I don’t care. It doesn’t interest me. It doesn’t fuss me."

Spurs person nary clip to lick their wounds, with Sunday's FA Cup fourth-round necktie astatine Aston Villa present adjacent much important to their hopes of salvaging the season.

"Ultimately it's an accidental for further learning and for america to atone for that by making amends with a beardown show connected Sunday," Postecoglou said.

Redknapp was captious of the Spurs players but besides Postecoglou, arsenic helium pointed to the information Djed Spence started astatine left-back but past had a spell connected the close helping successful the second-half.

The pundit said: “I can't retrieve successful my beingness a squad spell down with little of a combat than Tottenham did today. Not having immoderate changeable connected people successful a semi-final 2nd limb erstwhile trying to alteration the people of your history.

“I felt atrocious for their young players. Djed Spence played 14 antithetic positions tonight. I've ne'er seen thing similar it.

“The experienced players request to marque definite they acceptable the close tempo. They didn't bash that 1 bit. There's been immoderate lows but that today, looking astatine that scoreline, is conscionable horrendous.”