Postecoglou sack: Bent makes Jose Mourinho claim after what Tottenham fans said

Darren Bent has highlighted the differences between Tottenham under Ange Postecoglou in comparison to when they were under the stewardship of Jose Mourinho.

Spurs’ heavy defeat to Liverpool will have ramped up the pressure on Postecoglou, who has shown an unwillingness to adapt despite facing an injury crisis this season.

Guglielmo Vicario is one of several players out injured for Spurs but Bent has slammed Postecoglou for his lack of a plan B while mentioning Mourinho.

Speaking live on talkSPORT (23 December, 5:15 pm), Bent said: “When you’re in the Premier League, you get punished pretty much all the time. So, you’ve got the Conte-Mourinho situation, and you’ve also got the Ange scenario, and it’s two completely different ends of the spectrum. At some point, you need a happy medium.

“Do you remember the Chelsea game? They lost two players and there were like four one down. But they kept going. I remember, we sat and did this show, and Spurs fans were going, do you know what, they’ve taken more from that performance, getting beat.

“I said to you, no chance. I said, if this is the sign of things to come, if you’ve got nine men, at some point you have to go, enough’s enough, let’s stay in shape.

“When he first came into the league last year, it was new, everyone got excited with it. But we expected it to change, and it just hasn’t. So the Premier League is an intelligent league, people work it out very quickly. But he hasn’t got a plan B in anything.”

Postecoglou’s stubbornness is costing Tottenham

While you can’t help but feel some form of sympathy for the Spurs boss given the hand he has been dealt with injuries, he is also the master of his own downfall with his unwillingness to adapt his way of playing.

Fraser Forster’s involvement is a prime example. Everyone associated with English football knows that he is an old-school goalkeeper who isn’t effective with his feet, and yet Postecoglou has failed to adapt his style of play leading to his ‘keeper gifting Manchester United two goals in the dramatic 4-3 EFL Cup quarter-final win.

Errors like that are going to keep coming as players are being asked to do things that are simply not in their remit and it won’t only cost Tottenham success, it will almost certainly cost him his job and leave a stain on his CV.

Their heavy defeat to Liverpool should surely serve as a warning that he can’t keep playing the way he is as it just isn’t appropriate given the current circumstances at the club.

In other Tottenham news, Spurs look set to raid the Championship in the January transfer window.

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