Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou delivered the perfect response after a reporter asked if he could picture himself lifting trophies, stating: “I’ve got real pictures, quite a few.”
Seven permanent managers have been and gone at Tottenham since Juande Ramos helped guide the team to its last trophy, the 2008 League Cup.
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Tottenham have made the final of the League Cup a further three times since as well as the 2019 Champions League final, but have fallen short every time.
The club’s infamous trophy drought has become an easy way for rival fans to poke fun at Tottenham supporters and Postecoglou is hoping to be the man to end the lengthy wait.
Postecoglou will get his next — and almost certainly the only — chance to lead Tottenham to a trophy when they host Burnley in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday morning (AEDT).
One brave reporter decided to ask the Tottenham boss if he ever spent time picturing what lifting a trophy would be like but, in typical Postecoglou fashion, he didn’t miss with his answer.
“I’ve got real pictures, quite a few,” Postecoglou said.
“I just look at the ones I have got. I’ve earned them, it’s not lucky.”
Postecoglou added: “I love winning, it is what I have done all my career.
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“I don’t say that dismissively, and I don’t have them on the ceiling, mate, as you suggested.
“But that’s what drives me. Every year I start the year hoping there is a picture by the end of the year of me with a team lifting a trophy.
“That is what I have tried to do my whole career and I have got plenty of evidence of that, so that’s what my intent is here.
“I don’t have to visualise it, it’s what I do.”
Postecoglou has proven himself to be somewhat of a serial winner ever since he took over at the Brisbane Roar in 2009.
But it was his sheer domination at Celtic which caught the eye of Tottenham having won five out of the six trophies on offer during his time in Glasgow, including the famous treble in the 2022/23 season.
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