Tottenham midfielder James Maddison insists the staff are “100 per cent behind” boss Ange Postecoglou regardless of their “unacceptable” Premier League season.
Spurs sit a lowly sixteenth within the Premier League desk after struggling a nineteenth league defeat of the season on Sunday, following a heavy 5-1 loss at newly-crowned champions Liverpool.
However regardless of their home kind, Tottenham nonetheless have an opportunity to win the Europa League, which might finish their 17-year trophy drought and provides them a spot in subsequent season’s Champions League.
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There was intense hypothesis surrounding the way forward for Postecoglou, who’s presiding over probably Spurs’ worst-ever Premier League season, with some experiences claiming the 59-year-old will lose his job even when he lifts the Europa League trophy.
However Maddison has given his full help for the under-pressure Australian forward of Thursday’s Europa League semi-final first leg towards Norwegian champions Bodo/Glimt.
He mentioned: “We’re behind the supervisor, 100 per cent. I feel he is an ideal man.
“He is the primary individual to inform you, I’ve heard it myself, that we have had a poor season, particularly within the league. We have been superb in Europe, however the league season’s most likely been unacceptable, and we will all take a collective accountability for that.
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Talking on Again Pages Tonight, The Athletic’s David Ornstein mentioned it was ‘more and more seemingly’ that Postecoglou will go away Spurs in the summertime
“However he is my supervisor, he is my gaffer, I respect him an terrible quantity.
“The narrative is one thing that we gamers attempt to steer clear of as a result of it is not wholesome to learn into what you lot are speaking about – the supervisor’s place. I simply know that I come into work day-after-day and see the lads listening, taking up the messages, how he needs to play and making an attempt to do what’s greatest for this membership.
“We’re in an excellent place in Europe, the place we will nonetheless have a particular season underneath his administration. So, I will proceed to try this till the day he is not right here. He is my supervisor and I respect him an terrible quantity, so that can proceed.”
‘Season can nonetheless be so particular’
Tottenham host Bodo/Glimt on Thursday earlier than the second leg in Norway above the Arctic Circle on Could 8, with the prospect to succeed in the Europa League last in Bilbao on Could 21.
It provides Postecoglou the prospect to earn Spurs’ first silverware since 2008 and their first European trophy in 41 years.
Requested whether or not the staff owes the followers Europa League glory amid a dismal home marketing campaign, Maddison replied: “We undoubtedly need to reward them for the help that they provide us by creating one thing particular as a result of the league hasn’t been ok, undoubtedly. But it surely hurts us as nicely. Let’s not create the narrative that it is simply us gamers on the market. Undoubtedly, we take accountability for that. But it surely hurts me rather a lot that we’re having a poor season.
Maddison speaks forward of Tottenham’s Europa League semi-final first leg with Bodo/Glimt
“However this is the reason we’re so motivated for this competitors as a result of this season can nonetheless be so particular. You lot discuss it on a regular basis about Tottenham being with out silverware for nevertheless a few years it’s. We’re within the final 4, and we have got an ideal alternative to try this in a contest that we have been fairly stable on this 12 months.
“We need to reward them as a result of we really feel the help. On the finish of video games after we’ve misplaced once more, you go over since you need to thank them for the help. I do know they do not need to hear it. Even at this press convention and the interview on Sunday [after the Liverpool defeat], they’re not likely that bothered as a result of phrases are simply phrases.
“But it surely hurts and we’re making an attempt to place it proper. I feel that is the principle factor. The starvation is there. It would not at all times work, that is simply life. It would not at all times work the way you need it to.
“It is a distinctive state of affairs that we’re in within the final 4 in Europe the place we will go and reward them for his or her help as a result of they do journey in all places. We’re very grateful for that. Even within the league place we’re in and we have got nothing to play for, they’re nonetheless promoting out Liverpool away. We do respect that they usually’re supporting us, but it surely hurts as nicely.
Spurs boss Postecoglou is underneath stress
“I assume the message I used to be making an attempt to get throughout is that we’re not happy as nicely. We’re on this collectively.”
He added: “I do not really feel personally accountable as a result of it is a collective. It is everybody. Nobody on the complete membership, from the highest to the underside, internally needs to be happy with the place we’re, so it undoubtedly hurts.
“The harm you are speaking about, I assume it is a powerful one as a result of, like I simply mentioned, we have now to do interviews. You spoke about Liverpool on Sunday. I will do the interview the place we have misplaced 5-1. It is a bit of bit embarrassing. I am a bit embarrassed myself. I’ve to go and speak. I do know nobody actually needs to listen to what I’ve obtained to say as a result of they need to see the response. That is the prospect we have got to do on Thursday night time, which is the fantastic thing about the short turnaround, as a result of we will go and put it proper on Thursday if we get a superb end result.
“Then in seven days’ time, we have got one other large recreation. If we get by way of that, we’re in a European last. There’s positives there, however I assume we have got to go and do it, and we have got to point out them that we’re simply as hungry as they’re to win one thing.”
Ange: I am not underestimating Bodo/Glimt
Tottenham are heavy favourites to beat Bodo/Glimt, who’re the primary Norwegian aspect to succeed in a European semi-final.
Kjetil Knutsen’s aspect have knocked out Lazio and Olympiakos en path to the final 4, however Postecoglou is adamant his staff is not going to underestimate them.
He mentioned: “You’d love us to assume that, that you are a small membership and we do not fee. No, no.
Bodo/Glimt have upset quite a lot of huge European golf equipment within the Europa League this season
“I feel Bodo’s there on advantage. They’ve overwhelmed Lazio and Olympiakos, powerful groups. They’re there as a result of they seem to be a good soccer staff.
“It would not matter the place you come from. I come from the opposite aspect of the world the place soccer is the fourth sport. So I do not underestimate something.
“You say we’re an enormous membership, they seem to be a small membership, it would not matter. We’re two golf equipment in a semi-final of a European competitors, they usually’ve earned the fitting to be there. They’ve completed very nicely to get there, and we’ll deal with them with the respect they deserve.”
In the meantime, Postecoglou confirmed captain Heung-Min Son shall be absent for the primary leg on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The South Korean has not featured for Spurs for the reason that 1-1 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt on April 10 on account of a foot damage.
Postecoglou mentioned: “He will not function. He is out coaching, however he is nonetheless separate from the group.
“He is enhancing and hopefully we will get him again in sooner reasonably than later.”
Norwegian enigmas Bodo/Glimt purpose to crack one other code vs Spurs
Sky Sports activities’ Declan Olley:
Underestimate Bodo/Glimt at your peril, Tottenham.
Simply ask Porto, Besiktas, Olympiakos and Lazio this season. Roma and Celtic, who have been managed then by Spurs boss Postecoglou, have been additionally victims 4 years in the past.
The latest giant-killing of Lazio, although, was notably historic as Bodo/Glimt grew to become the primary Norwegian aspect to succeed in a European semi-final.
Now the Eliteserien champions, situated above the Arctic Circle, are aiming to freeze out Spurs, whose stadium is astonishingly greater than Bodo’s inhabitants of 55,000.
“We stroll into this recreation with confidence that whoever we meet, we consider we’re in a position to compete,” says Bodo/Glimt’s sporting director Havard Sakariassen.
“I hope that we do not concentrate on the event and that we play the sport and dare to be ourselves.
“I actually strongly consider we have now all of the instruments to be courageous sufficient to exit in London and simply be Bodo/Glimt. Simply play the sport, after which we’ll see.
“After all, the expertise that we have now gained over the past years makes us extra assured in conditions like this.”
Learn extra about Tottenham’s Europa League semi-final opponents, Bodo/Glimt, right here.
