In an elite meet, Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou recollects his key head-to-head with Manchester City’s Energy Guardiola in Japan
A pre-season neighborly against Manchester City may have cleared the way for Ange Postecoglou’s course to the Head Association – indeed in the event that the man himself still doesn’t know whether a suggestion from Zip Guardiola earned him the Celtic work.
Postecoglou guided Yokohama F Marinos to a to begin with J Association title for 15 a long time in 2019 – halfway through that title-winning year, they too inspired in a summer inviting against Manchester City.
The Japanese side are portion of the City Football Gather and, in spite of the fact that they misplaced the inviting 3-1, they recorded 58 per cent ownership, something that exceptionally few outfits oversee against Manchester City.
“They came over and it was phenomenal for us,” Postecoglou said, in an select meet for the most recent issue of FourFourTwo magazine. “Against the most excellent within the world, we needed to play the imaginative football that we played on a week after week basis.”
Guardiola has since talked around how inspired he was by Postecoglou when the combine met in Japan – reports have too recommended that Zip specified the Australian to Celtic lion’s share shareholder Dermot Desmond amid a chance assembly at a lodging, whereas the Bhoys were looking for a modern chief in 2021.
Postecoglou would go on to win two alliance titles at Celtic, and move on to Tottenham within the Chief Alliance this summer.
Inquired whether Guardiola did in fact suggest him for the Parkhead job, Postecoglou told FFT, “I’m not beyond any doubt. You know what it’s like – victory contains a million fathers, so who knows what the genuine story was?
“But it was Desmond who come to out to me. I chatted to him and truly straight after that discussion, he made his choice.
“What other foundation work they did, I’m not truly beyond any doubt, but I was enchanted he saw something in me to provide me the opportunity.”
