Australia’s first-ever Premier League winner Robbie Slater believes that Ange Postecoglou ‘deserves’ to be in competition for managerial vacancies at heavyweight Premier League golf equipment, however believes that he’ll keep at Celtic for one more season attributable to one key purpose.
After hoisting two trophies final season, Postecoglou is on now the verge of claiming a treble of home titles in his second marketing campaign.
The Australian mastermind led the staff to a league cup triumph, beating bitter rivals Rangers within the last. Another victory over Rangers within the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup final week booked Celtic’s place in one other last, the place they are going to face second-tier Inverness subsequent month. And with only one league loss in 33 video games to date, the Hoops sit 13 factors forward of Rangers within the league – a dominant lead with 5 video games to play.
Speaking on the Fox Football Podcast, Socceroos nice Slater mentioned the treble is a close to certainty.
He mentioned Celtic has been “fully dominant this season, from day one”, including that he’s sure the league “is completed”.
Slater mentioned of the Scottish Cup last towards second tier Inverness Caledonian Thistle: “They’re gonna win it. You suppose they’re gonna lose? Come on, give me a break!
“It’d be the most important boilover in world soccer historical past, that’s how a lot of an upset it could be. Could it occur? Yes. Is it going to occur? No.”
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In a season that has seen 15 Premier League managers sacked, it’s no shock that Postecoglou has been repeatedly linked to go teaching roles on this planet’s greatest league.
That included the likes of Brighton, Wolves, Everton, Leeds United and Leicester City, the latter presently dwelling to Socceroo Harry Souttar.
Currently, Postecoglou is rumoured to be in competition to take over both Chelsea or Tottenham Hotspur on the finish of the season – two giants of the English sport.
Slater says the hyperlinks to ‘Big Six’ golf equipment are properly earned.
“I feel (it’s) deserved. I feel he’s grown an incredible fame … it’s not simply his success, it’s the best way it’s occurring. It’s the type of soccer.
“It’s definitely not often been seen (in Scotland), this type of soccer that Ange has introduced. And he’s finished it with each membership he’s been to, to be honest to him.”
However, Postecoglou has struggled to make his mark on one competitors to date at Celtic: the Champions League.
In his first yr in Europe’s prime continental match, Celtic confirmed flashes of brilliance and earned plaudits for his or her attacking mindset towards the likes of Real Madrid, however completed backside of their group after failing to win any of their six video games.
Slater says that ‘unfinished enterprise’ within the competitors is the principle purpose he believes Postecoglou will flip down the lure of the Premier League this yr.
Slater mentioned: “The solely query mark over Celtic this season is the Champions League.
“That’s one of many causes I feel he’ll keep. I feel the Champions League carrot of going once more.
“(He’s) skilled it with this group of gamers, there’s some new ones however this group of gamers largely have skilled that one (marketing campaign), which could make them do even higher within the subsequent one.
“I feel that makes him keep.”
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He added later: “I’ve obtained a sense he would possibly keep at Celtic. He’s the king. They love him. And he’s obtained one other crack on the Champions League.
“I feel that’s the factor that grabs him. If you go to Chelsea he’s obtained no European soccer. If you go to the (different mid-table) groups we’re speaking about there’s no European soccer. Even Spurs doesn’t seem like (taking part in) European soccer. Do you give away the Champions League?
“If there’s a secure seat in soccer on this planet, Ange is in certainly one of them.”
Postecoglou’s high-intensity type of play is demanding on his gamers and usually takes time to implement successfully.
When he started at Celtic, he misplaced three of his first 4 video games, then suffered one other poor run of 4 losses in 5 video games quickly afterwards (throughout all competitions). But he rapidly turned the staff right into a formidable drive and surged to league-cup trophy double in his first marketing campaign in Scotland.
But within the Premier League – and significantly the most important golf equipment – outcomes are at all times king, and time is at a premium.
“What we’ve talked about within the unstable surroundings of the Premier League the place principally it appears like when you take over and also you don’t hit the bottom working, you get sacked. That’s the place Ange may (be involved).
“If he does flip round and goes to, say, Chelsea, he is aware of that you just’ve obtained to hit the bottom working. You don’t get time. That’s not a query, only a truth.
“Can he take care of that? He did at Celtic. He needed to hit the bottom working. The first few weeks they had been speaking: ‘he’s not the proper [man].’ Then he turned it round in a short time and clearly received the title and every part was candy.”
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One different vital issue could be the management – or lack thereof – entrusted to Postecoglou over transfers. The Australian has an unimaginable document of signings delivering on the pitch, headlined by Celtic’s attacking whiz Kyogo Furuhashi.
But Chelsea particularly has had a shambolic strategy to transfers within the final 12 months underneath new house owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, who’ve spent a document 600-million kilos – however usually signed gamers that didn’t slot in with the managers’ plans.
Slater warned that becoming a member of a membership with out management over signings could be a mistake for Postecoglou.
“They (Celtic) trusted Ange in what he’s been doing.
“Knowing Ange – I don’t know him (that properly), I’m not his greatest mate – he’s at all times needed that (management) wherever he’s gone. I’d suppose that he’s ready that if they need him unhealthy sufficient, he goes on his personal phrases.
“I feel he’d be foolish to go to Chelsea and never have the facility of selecting and selecting your individual gamers. If you’re going to get sacked, go down with your individual concepts!”
