ANGE POSTECOGLOU is set to be sacked by Tottenham even if they win the Europa League, according to reports.
Spurs are in the midst of a disastrous Premier League season and they are currently sat a dismal 16th in the table.
Monday night’s 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest was their 18th loss – and they are now just one away from matching their record of 19 defeats suffered in the 2003-04 campaign.
But the season can still be saved by ending the club’s 17-year wait for silverware via the Europa League.
Postecoglou‘s men saw off Eintracht Frankfurt in the quarter-finals to set up a last-four tie with Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt.
But lifting the Europa League on May 21 will reportedly not be enough to keep the Aussie in the job.
The Telegraph claim that Spurs have decided they are going to axe Postecoglou whether they win the cup or not.
Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola is highly-rated by Tottenham chiefs, but the Cherries are determined and “optimistic” of keeping him.
Fulham manager Marco Silva is also among the leading candidates to replace Postecoglou.
Mauricio Pochettino has expressed his interest in returning to Tottenham – although he is set to manage the US team at their home World Cup next summer.
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Spurs technical director Johan Lange is understood to be a fan of Brentford’s Thomas Frank.
It comes amid reports that their chief football officer Scott Munn is set to be sacked.
Munn is said to be Postecoglou’s “key ally and biggest supporter”.
Before beating Eintracht Frankfurt, the under-fire boss opened up about his future and admitted he has “got no idea” whether he will be at Spurs next season.
He said: “You either think I’m capable of doing the job now or you don’t. That’s where I sit with these things.
“If people think that us winning tomorrow all of a sudden makes me a better manager than what I am today or us losing tomorrow somehow makes me a worse manager, I guess that’s their burden, not mine.
“I don’t think that way and I don’t think most people think that way. Or I’d like to think they don’t, in terms of their own sort of self esteem and who they are as people.
“I couldn’t care less. Really. I couldn’t care less.
“There’s no burden on me, there’s no anxiety on me. What I’m sitting here doing is thinking we’ve got a great opportunity to get to the final four of a major tournament.
“Mate, I’m not going to let that slip by without fighting tooth and nail for it irrespective of what may come the day after.”
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