Ange Postecoglou will be confronted with a date with Destiny on Thursday.
Loss the quarterfinals of the Europa League to Eintracht Frankfurt and it will be curtains for the Tottenham boss, Jamie Carragher believes.
“It can no longer continue,” he told Sky Sports News. “I think if they go to Eintracht Frankfurt, it would probably be a shock of hands and go to something else for both parties.”
Postecoglou is chairman of the worst Premier League campaign of potential spurs.
A 17th League defeat of the season on Sunday at Wolves means that they are only three losses from surpassing the club record of 19 Premier League-Nedergagen in the 2003/04 and 1993/94 campaigns.
With an average of 1.15 points per match, Spurs is also expected to record their lowest Premier League point count. If they do not take seven points from their last six games, including trips to Liverpool and Aston Villa, they will fall short of their 44-point season in 1997/98.
The error with the fault with 4-2 defeat at Molineux leaves them a gloomy 15th in the table and only two points above the 17th-placed West Ham, causing them to be for their lowest Premier League finish (15th in 1994).
“It is really difficult to see and understand how Postecoglou is still in position as head coach of the football club,” Ricky Sacks of the Last Word told Sky Sports News.
“It just seems pure and total negligence through [Tottenham chairman] Daniel Levy and Co that this man is still in a job. It's incredible. “
'Make-Or-Break for Postecoglou'
The Hope of Europa League Glory has for the time being given a stay of implementation.
The Australian can make his promise to “always win things in my second year”, with Spurs desperate to end their 17-year-old trophy-dried.
But his reign has all landed on Thursday's second stage in Germany, with the last-like tie fine on 1-1 after an encouraging display of the first legs in North London.
“It feels like making or breaking,” Ex-Arsenale striker Alan Smith told Sky Sports News. “They need a victory in Europe to save their season and for Postecoglou to perhaps save his job.
“Going to Frankfurt with the fans behind the German team, who drives high in the third in the Bundesliga, that will be a good task for them, and I am not entirely sure that they are in the opinion of dealing with it.”
History does not suggest, in which Spurs won only three of their last 14 races in Europe. And their shape does not suggest, with the figures from Tottenham alarming under Postecoglou.
Only the lower three clubs – Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich – have lost more competition matches, have a worse expected goals against and have taken away less this season than Spurs.
Since Tottenham's 4-0 victory in Manchester City on November 23, only the lower three fewer points have picked up than Spurs (18), who have lost 12 of the 20 games since Pep Guardiola's side (W5 D3) defeated.
It is a run that has seen them lose at home to relegation-threatened Ipswich and Leicester, the victory of the last their only one of their last 18 league games.
Carragher said: “Some results we have seen this season – there have been soothing circumstances in terms of the injuries they have had – but even if they have had their entire team, they have not won enough games.
“And I am not just underway this season, if you go back to the first 10 games of last season when they were fantastic and the top of the competition, from that moment on it has been going on for almost 18 months with those who have admitted goals and losing games.
“It is not only the manager to turn very quickly about a bad form, this is going on for a long time.”
Can El Glory Ange hold in Spursbaan?
Twenty-five percent of the 103 Premier League points of Postecoglou was picked up in his 10-game undefeated start until last season-one period in which Spurs fans fell in love with the ex-Celtic boss.
Now many want a break, including bags.
“His relationship with the supporters is at a low point,” he said. “There is no real band there to give you the feeling that he can even win the fans back if he goes to the semi -final of the Europa League.
“It just feels that there has been no plan. There is no feeling of any feeling from Daniel Levy that there is a backup regarding this season, because during the season there have been a few times where Tottenham should and could have changed the manager several times and had this situation play and play it out now.
“This is no lack of respect for postecoglou to Ange, but he will go down as one of the worst managers in the modern history of Spurs.”
On the other hand, Postecoglou could become the most successful manager of Spurs of the 21st century with Europa League Glory. Can lifting the trophy in Bilbao on 21 May change the future of the 59-year-old Spurs?
“Even if Postecoglou won the Europa League in one way or another,” Sacks said, “I would find it impossible to feel what he will be there after the summer.”
The dilemma will only deepen if Postecoglou will come through his last chance salon on Thursday.
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