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I can't believe that I'm currently seeing the Kane situation as a potential win/win for us. He stays = win. He goes and Ange gets £100m = win.
Ticket office will 100% refund your season ticket - when renewing mine I asked if I didn’t like the appointed manager could I refund my season ticket and I was assured I could - no plans to cancel mine at present -,indeed roll on 12th august
Feel like Furphy fell off big time in the last couple of years after being massive 4 years ago. Get me a Stone & Wood or Little Creatures over any of these though. Ange In.
Imagine if he was American and we won something, that would be far worse!!
Looks more like Hoppingham Hopspur to me.
"Go Hard or Go Home"
Looks like Ange has been pretty much the main target from the beginning of the search.
Keith Jackson names Frank Trimboli as central figure in unfolding Ange drama
Our man spotted the influential agent who could become a key figure in the Parkhead gaffer's future with Spurs circling.www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Chances are you won’t be overly familiar with the name of Frank Trimboli.
And over the course of the next week or so Celtic’s supporters may have good reason to wish it had stayed that way. Or they could end up showering him with flowers and chocolates all the way down London Road. Either way, it seems increasingly likely that Mr Trimboli is about to emerge as a central character in the unfolding drama which will ultimately decide if Ange Postecoglou is Home or Away this summer.
So it was more than intriguing that he just so happened to be there in person at Celtic Park on Saturday, with a VIP pass to join in the title celebrations before Sky’s cameras caught him hugging and high-fiving Postecoglou like a long lost brother down on the pitch. Trimboli, you see, is the man who makes deals happen. He may represent Postecoglou professionally but he is not exactly renowned for adopting a touchy-feely, Jerry Maguire approach to fostering agent-client relationships.
Rather, he has a reputation as a no nonsense Aussie adviser with a hard earned reputation for getting things over the line. Put it this way, if there are any balls that need breaking, invariably, Frank the Tank’s your man.
He also enjoys a long standing working relationship - and wields enormous influence - with the men in the command room of the very club which is now pecking around Big Ange like a feisty cockerel. Trimboli is credited, for example, with playing a key role in the somewhat left-field appointment of another Australian, Scott Munn, as Tottenham Hotspur’s chief football officer.
Munn’s bespoke role and wide reaching remit will make him pretty much the decision maker in chief from now on at the North London club. He starts his job on July 1 and when he does he will be second in seniority only to chairman Daniel Levy who, understandably, is seeking to take a backseat after overseeing a spectacularly Spursy season, even by their own basket case standards.
Like Postecoglou, Munn has a history steeped in the City Group having held down a position as chief executive at Melbourne City FC before being promoted to head up the entire China division over the last four years. So it’s little wonder if the alarm bells began clattering even more loudly inside Celtic Park at the weekend when Trimboli’s name appeared on Big Ange’s personal guest list for a second successive title party.
Trimboli’s presence in the posh seats will certainly not have escaped the notice of Celtic chairman Peter Lawwell who will be acutely aware of all the various personalities and pieces which are in play as Spurs weigh up their next managerial move
It could even be that Lawwell was the one who handed out the invitation in the first place in order to conduct a face-to-face with Trimboli over a fat new contract offer for his client, who is now days away from completing a domestic clean sweep at the end of his second season in Glasgow.
If that turns out to be the case - and Postecoglou was to put pen to paper on a bumper deal to stay - then Trimboli will have Celtic supporters buses being named after him throughout the close season. And yet, all the noises coming out of London, suggest Postecoglou’s pal has other plans in mind.
Postecoglou’s name has been on Levy’s list of potential new bosses ever since the decision to axe Antonio Conte was made at the end of March. And the more he has bungled the recruitment process, the higher up it has climbed.
So last week, when Feyenoord’s Arne Slot became the latest man to turn down Levy’s advances, Trimboli may well have sensed that the time was right to start upping the ante over Ange. Both Slot and Postecoglou share similar philosophies in terms of how they believe the game ought to be played.
They are more than just managers - they are creators of cultures - and if that’s what Spurs are looking for then, of course, it stands to reason that Postecoglou has become a person of such interest
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Ange Postecoglou's move from Celtic to Tottenham has been in the works for months, according to a report.
An Australian media outlet claims that the 57-year-old's agent has been pushing for a deal to be struck for quite some time.
Postecoglou is poised to take over in North London, with a deal edging closer to completion.
He's set for talks with Daniel Levy in the coming days, with Celtic having granted permission for him to speak with the Premier League giants.
However, The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Postecoglou's representative, Frank Trimboli, has been working in the background over a move to the EPL for his top client
They wrote: “(Daniel) Levy is why this position is viewed as a poisoned chalice, although none of this will be lost on Postecoglou, a student of the game and a voracious consumer of football around the world.
"His agent, London-based Aussie Frank Trimboli, knows Levy well and has been pushing Postecoglou’s case for months behind the scenes.
“Postecoglou is expected to be confirmed as early as this week as Tottenham’s new manager.
"The deal is all but done, according to scores of reports from overseas and by sources contacted by this masthead, and an official announcement is imminent.
"It will be a new high watermark for Australian football, to have a head coach working not only in the English Premier League, but at one of the competition’s biggest clubs - as it will be for the 57-year-old himself, who has always had the hunger to test his wits at the highest level possible, stretching as far back as his days as a junior at his boyhood club from South Melbourne.”
But if he says "I don't give a flaming fuck." then we give him tenure and shares in the upcoming skating rink.
Issue is less the manager and more the Club structure right now. The right manager will fail if nothing changes within the club. Hopefully we are working to provide the right environment for that manager to succeed because both elements need to be in place.
