Alasdair Gold reveals what is actually happening in Tottenham training after claims the players are unhappy with Ange Postecoglou
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As is often the case when a manager is under pressure, reports have emerged claiming Tottenham Hotspur players are unhappy with Ange Postecoglou’s training.
Tottenham are currently on a shocking run of form which has seen them collect just one win from their last ten Premier League matches and sitting 15th in the table.
TBR Football understands that Tottenham have no immediate plans to replace Postecoglou with injuries being blamed for their terrible results.
On Tuesday reports suggested Tottenham players were complaining about the 'demands of training' under the Australian, however, Alasdair Gold has revealed what training at Hotspur Way actually looks like right now.
Are claims true that Tottenham players are unhappy with Ange Postecoglou’s training?
Alasdair Gold suggests that claims of training being too intense don’t hold up right now as Ange Postecoglou just isn’t getting the chance to put the players through their paces.
As TBR Football wrote about earlier this week, Postecoglou’s predecessors have seen similar excuses crop up about their training and they only seem to emerge when results turn sour.
Gold told Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham: “I could set a reminder on my phone for every 18 months that stories will come out about the current Tottenham manager that training is either too much, not enough, stale or boring. It’s like clockwork every 18 months.”
The Spurs journalist says that often these claims come from disgruntled players and everything he is hearing suggests ‘intense’ sessions are simply not possible.
He added: “This is absolutely no dig at journalists, but it normally comes from people around players who are underperforming under that manager or a player who isn’t playing.
“But ultimately everything I’ve heard it’s not really possible for training sessions to be that intense.”
What do Ange Postecoglou’s training sessions currently look like?
For the last three months or so, Tottenham have been playing a match every three days and finding the time to fit in sessions just isn’t possible.
Typically after a game, Postecoglou gives the players a day off and then the next training session will be focused on recovery.
“From speaking to people around players and the first team, is that they’ve had so many fixtures – a game every three days for pretty much every week for the past three months,” said Gold.
“He gives them a day off after a match, the next day is usually a recovery day and there are loads of players who are carrying knocks and tiredness into the next matches.
“There are barely any sessions in this three-month period where they have a full session or anything resembling a full session. It just doesn’t really fit what they’re in right now.
“Look he’s been in management 26 years, he’s not an idiot, he’s not going to look at them being tired and run them into the ground. It makes no sense whatsoever, from what I understand, they are not able to get intense sessions in.”
