Tottenham return to Southampton on Sunday for the primary time since Antonio Conte’s explosive post-match rant, however present boss Ange Postecoglou has not misplaced any of his willpower to succeed on the membership.

Conte’s final public act as Spurs head coach after a 3-3 draw at St Mary’s in 2023 was to launch a livid tirade towards his personal “egocentric” gamers who he claimed “don’t need to play underneath stress” earlier than he appeared to activate the board as he questioned the membership’s ongoing trophy drought.

Eight days later Conte had left Tottenham by mutual consent after a whirlwind 16-month interval, with Postecoglou his eventual everlasting successor.

Postecoglou has been accountable for the Premier League membership for 2 months longer than the Italian, however managed 12 fewer matches and is presently in the midst of an damage disaster which has resulted in a drop in kind, with Spurs solely in a position to declare one victory from their final eight fixtures.

Nevertheless, when Postecoglou was requested if he would leap ship within the wake of creating remarks like Conte did in March, 2023, he mentioned: “Look, I don’t assume it’s honest to remark.

“Antonio is a world-class supervisor and has his personal approach of doing issues, his personal causes for doing that.

“I’m right here, I’m in for the struggle. I’m in a struggle, for positive. For higher or worse I’m not going wherever in the meanwhile as a result of all the pieces remains to be in my energy and my duty.

“I nonetheless have an actual need to get us via this stage so that folks see what’s on the opposite aspect. My resolve and willpower hasn’t wavered one little bit.

“I really like a struggle, I really like a scrap, I really like being in the midst of a storm when everybody doubts as a result of I do know what it’s on the opposite aspect in case you get via it. My job is to get via it.”

Postecoglou was Celtic boss when Conte’s extraordinary 10-minute press convention made waves around the globe, however acknowledged being conscious of his predecessors’ feedback and tried to clarify the psyche behind why a supervisor would make such a transfer.

“I used to be on Planet Earth at the moment, and sure I used to be effectively conscious of it,” Postecoglou smiled.

“I feel you already know when a supervisor will get to that time that there’s clearly some underlying points.

“I feel more often than not when managers do this they’re making an attempt to get a response, making an attempt to get some kind of impression on the crew.

“In tough moments, what you need out of your leaders is motion relatively than inaction of simply letting issues drift alongside. He did it to attempt to get a constructive impression on the group, a method or one other. We’ve all been in that scenario as a supervisor the place you’re feeling that is time to ship a message.”

Postecoglou despatched out his personal message on Thursday after a 1-1 draw away to Rangers when he insisted Timo Werner’s show “wasn’t acceptable” at Ibrox.

Werner was changed at half-time following an error-strewn efficiency, however was not alone in being below-par in Glasgow.

A day later Postecoglou defined how with Spurs lacking a number of key first-teamers, the onus is on their match senior gamers to ship a stage of utility and dedication – and admitted Werner will likely be required at St Mary’s on Sunday.

“I’ve acquired no alternative. Who else am I going to play? I’m pulling youngsters out of faculty, I actually am,” Postecoglou talked about in reference to 16-year-old duo Malachi Hardy and Luca Williams-Barnett, who’ve lately made the bench.

“That was the reasoning for me pointing it out final evening. We’d like Timo. We’d like all of them.

“In regular instances if in case you have a poor sport, there’s a worth to pay. It doesn’t exist proper now. We’d like all people we’ve acquired.”