Ange Postecoglou awaits house truths from Harry Kane in crunch talks
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hen Harry Kane sits down for talks with Ange Postecoglou this week, the brand new Tottenham boss will search his opinions on the place the membership has gone astray and the way it can return to difficult for silverware.
Kane has already stated publicly that Spurs have misplaced a number of the “values” that made them profitable below Mauricio Pochettino and, as somebody who has been a part of their relative rise and fall, Postecoglou trusts the England captain to be insightful and to the purpose.
Postecoglou will even lay out his imaginative and prescient for the membership to Kane, who reported back this morning, and the hope is that their assembly would be the begin of a technique of persuading Spurs’s talisman to increase his contract, which runs till the top of the approaching season.
When they lastly come nose to nose, Kane could also be struck by the distinction in message from the Australian to his predecessors, Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho, whose personal first assembly with the ahead was captured by Amazon Prime’s cameras as a part of a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
In November 2019, shortly after he had succeeded Pochettino, Mourinho invited Kane into his workplace and promised to make him a worldwide famous person.
“The world looks to English football with an incredible respect, but they still think that the movie stars of football belong to other places,” Mourinho instructed Kane. “We have to build your status in that direction. My profile, I am little bit like that as a coach. My dimension is universal and, by being with me, I think I can help you to [explode].”
In distinction, Postecoglou is rarely more likely to describe his “dimension” as “universal” and has promised that Kane might be handled no otherwise to another member of the squad. “I don’t think it’s my role to sit down and treat people in a manner because of their circumstances, I’m big on treating everyone the same,” he stated on Monday, when requested about his upcoming dialog with Kane.
The break between Postecoglou’s method and that of his predecessors is critical, and speaks to Spurs’s change of course below the 58-year-old. Postecoglou’s appointment marks the top of an unsuccessful spell through which the membership hoped big-name coaches and gamers, particularly Kane and Heung-min Son, may drag them over the road to silverware, and a return to constructing in direction of success by means of collectivism and a transparent ethos set by the top coach.
It stays to be seen how Kane will react to Postecoglou’s message, however after 4 largely joyless seasons spent primarily below established coaches, a extra collective method might attraction to the ahead, who’s plainly a famous person however, above all, a high skilled and crew participant.
Kane is predicted to inform Postecoglou that he has an open thoughts about staying, but when he stays unconvinced within the medium time period, the previous Celtic coach is more likely to be extra relaxed about his future than Mourinho or Conte, who would have discovered it unacceptable to promote him.
Harry Kane returned to Hotspur Way on Wednesday
/ PAWhile Postecoglou has stated he desires Kane to remain, he expects whole buy-in from each participant and has made it clear that he shouldn’t have to offer anybody the hard-sell about his mission. More so than his predecessors, Postecoglou is probably going again himself to construct a profitable aspect with or with out Kane, and has stated he is not going to enable Bayern Munich’s aggressive pursuit of the striker to turn into a distraction.
“If I spend too much time worrying about the impact it might have either way, I’m going to miss trying to build a team because, ultimately, that’s what’s going to make us successful: if we build a team that plays a certain way,” Postecoglou stated.
Towards the top of final season, Kane candidly stated “a lot has to change” for Spurs to achieve success and, finally, he’ll solely be persuaded to signal a bumper new contract by success on the pitch. When he meets Postecoglou, although, he’s more likely to recognize that the membership’s method has modified, for higher or worse.