Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou has broken his silence on reports suggesting he could replace Jurgen Klopp at Premier League giants Liverpool.
Earlier this month, Thomas Frank spoke openly and honestly about those Liverpool links, admitting that he may indeed have ‘ambitions’ possibly above Brentford’s station.
Fellow Premier League tactician Ange Postecoglou was a little less, well, frank when the subject of the soon-to-be-vacant Anfield post was brought up, however, even if the straight-talking Aussie is aware that his may be a name jotted down in Liverpool notebooks after dominating Scotland with Celtic and translating his famously free-wheeling, up-and-at-’em approach to a previously stupefying Spurs side.
Liverpool like Ange Postecoglou
“I may be on a shortlist,” Postecoglou tells Football London ahead of Wolves’ trip to North London Saturday.
“(But) I don’t think I want to say anything about that because I don’t think that’s ever going to enter my brain space for what is my priorities in life and profession right now.”
Success usually goes hand-in-hand with Postecoglou, the likeable, candid 58-year-old guiding Australia to Asian Cup glory before taking Japanese football by storm with Yokohama F Marinos.
Simon Jordan, who spent ten years as the chairman of Crystal Palace and knows a thing or two about hiring and firing managers, sees Postecoglou as a potentially stand-out candidate due to the similarities between him and Liverpool’s most iconic head coach of the modern era.
Could Ange Postecoglou replace Jurgen Klopp?
“If I were involved, yeah, I’d think he’d be under consideration,” Jordan tells talkSPORT (30 January, 12pm). “He’d provide a lot of thing Klopp has been successful in.
“Galvanising the fanbase, the style of play, he’s a winner, he’s won, and he’s got the personality
“So I think there are a lot of similarities (between Postecoglou and Klopp). Spurs will have no truck for it, and neither should they. But there is definitely room (in the discussions) for Ange Postecoglou.”
“Everybody looks at him and thinks ‘yeah, the vision arrives now. We can see it’. The style of play, the culture he exudes…,” Jordan adds, Postecoglou’s Tottenham beating Liverpool in September albeit thanks to a 96th minute own goal and that disallowed Luis Diaz strike.
“He is a charisma slightly lower level than Klopp. He doesn’t have the 64 million dollar smile. But he has the personality that people find relatable.”
HITC Football understands that, as things stand, Xabi Alonso is the frontrunner to take over from Klopp. The former Anfield playmaker has brought his renowned composure and supreme reading of the game to the dugout. Alonso outclassed Thomas Tuchel during Bayer Leverkusen’s 3-0 thrashing of title rivals Bayern Munich last weekend.
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