Have you digested your Golden Nugget today?

I have discussed before that winning mentalities don't make excuses, they take responsibility, fans don't, they want someone to blame so shout about Daniel Levy, someone they know very little about, especially the mentality he has.

Ange Postecoglou personifies that.

"it's really down to me because I've accepted the role, I've accepted whatever challenges exist within this football club."

The lack of player development, as I keep saying is down to the manager, not the chairman. The manager has accepted a role where everything, regardless of what fans think, HAS been discussed and the manager has accepted.

Transfer budgets have been discussed. Every manager knows any club has to operate within it's financial means, understands Spurs are not Top 4 in terms of revenue and can't spend as clubs do with 45% more income than Spurs.

They accept a role because they think they can do it, they think they can make a difference. When they can't, you either hold your hand up and leave in a dignified manner or you make excuses to say it was someone else's fault, not mine. 

That's merely to save your ego.

Daniel Levy has made mistakes, of course he has, but, he is not to blame for managers not being able to do what they think they can do, regardless of fans who want to pin the wrong colour of tea and the wrong biscuits on him.

The Ange Postecoglou appearance on the talkSPORT show with Jim White and Simon Jordan was revealling. I hope our fans are learning every time he gives them these golden nuggets and that they aren't passing over their heads.

Simon Jordan: " Talk to me about the fit. I've spoken about the fit with you and Spurs and you and Daniel. And again, I'll touch upon your predecessor but I don't ask you to comment upon them. I look at the reality of the fit for you, which is the opportunity for you to go to Tottenham Hotspur. 

"It was based upon a mutual advantage in terms of you wanted to manage Tottenham Hotspur. You weren't doing them a favour and turning up and getting a big bag of money. 

"You wanted to manage Tottenham Hotspur and they wanted you as the manager, whereas the predecessors, perhaps, were getting big reputations, justifiably. and turned up doing Tottenham Hotspur a favour. 

"Talk to me about the fit of this particular decision-making process, of you going to join Tottenham and the working relationships you have with the key components of it, like Daniel Levy."

Take note of Postecoglou's answer. Take it slowly, take it in and fully understand it. Don't read it quickly because it'll go in one ear and out the other, metaphorically speaking.

When he speaks, his answers are too important for that.

Ange Postecoglou:  "I think it's essential, Simon. I think the reason I probably had success in just about every club I've gone to is because they've identified what they need in the next phase of, you know, whatever that club cycle is in terms of style of football, in terms of environment, in terms of all those things and I come out as sort of the last man standing in that process. 

"When I see that, I know that the club is a good fit for me because the one thing about me is when I come in, I'm not going to compromise on certain things. I make that clear in discussions we have before I accept the role and when the other party, whatever that may be, in this case, Tottenham and Daniel [Levy] decided to go with me, then I knew that they were open to going in my direction. 

"Then it's up to me. After that, I'm going to take responsibility for whatever happens here, good, bad or otherwise. It's not going to be, if I don't succeed, it's not going to be because of something that exists within this club or external factors because I haven't been able to do what I want to do from myself. 

"The process for me now is about gaining the trust of everyone at the football club, the supporters, the people who run and own this club, the management, the players, the staff, that's up to me. It's all on me from now on. 

"I think the only thing I ever asked for was that door to be open and to be, I guess, supported, which I have been and from here on, it's really down to me because I've accepted the role, I've accepted whatever challenges exist within this football club, I've accepted that and I'll take responsibility for that."

Revealing words. Your lot in life folks is your responsibility. You are where you are because of the decisions you have made, nothing else.

You concern yourself with the things you can control, not everything you can't.

UNTIL NEXT TIME FOLKS.

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