The Europa League champion can t keep his job? Tottenham coach Postkoglu was dismissed as soon as he won the cup!

On June 7, a news shocked the Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur officially announced that coach Ang Postkoglu was officially dismissed. This meritorious coach who just won the UEFA Cup for the team in Bilbao and broke the championship drought for many years actually said goodbye when the joy of winning the championship had not yet dissipated. Friends watching football all sighed: Glory is used, but they cannot escape the fate of being dismissed. This is the cruelty of professional football.

Postkoglu took over the coaching post of Tottenham in the summer of 2023 and was once regarded as the hope for the team's revival. His drastic reforms have indeed caused Bailu Lane to have an offensive whirlwind, and fans once saw the shadow of the former gorgeous football. The top of the Europa League last month was a highlight of his coaching career, which was enough to be recorded in the history of Tottenham, side by side with legendary coaches such as Nicholson and Berkinshaw.

However, the dazzling light of the Europa League failed to illuminate the dark night in the Premier League. Looking back at the 2024-25 Premier League season, Tottenham Hotspur's performance was not good. After 38 rounds, he only recorded a bleak record of 11 wins, 5 draws and 22 losses, with 38 points (Note: calculated according to the Premier League points rule), and finally ranked 17th among the 20 teams, setting the worst record in the Premier League in the team history. What is even more worrying is that since the brief stunning start of the 2023-24 season, the team has only scored 78 points in the next 66 Premier League games, with an average of only 1.18 points per game. Such a landslide can be called a cliff-like fall.

The Tottenham Board of Directors admitted in the announcement that this was a "hardest decision". They highly affirmed the foundation that Postkoglu laid for the team, especially the regaining offensive tradition and the achievements of the UEFA Cup to the top. But the cold league standings are in front of you - the continuous sluggish performance and historic poor rankings have prevented the club's senior management from choosing to turn a blind eye with just the emotional comfort brought by a UEFA trophy. Even with objective factors such as distractions in the European game and injuries, the continued collapse of the league as the foundation ultimately made the board of directors believe that "scraping the bone to cure the poison" is imperative.

On the one hand, it is the top glory of the European arena, and on the other hand, it is the embarrassing struggle of the league's relegation. This scene of ice and fire is a cruel footnote to Postkoglu's final resignation. The miracle of the UEFA Cup proves his on-the-spot command skills and the explosiveness of the Cup, but the lack of stability exposed by the league's long journey and the lack of adjustments after the cracks have made the club's senior management lose confidence in their continued competitiveness. When the passion of the Europa League faded, the harsh reality that the league was hard to return became an unavoidable verdict.

Postkoglu's two-year term came to an abrupt end. He broke Tottenham's championship for many years with an Europa League championship, and this merit will not be erased. However, as the core battlefield for measuring the team's foundation, the Premier League's dismal results ultimately made the short-term European battle glory like a flash in the pan. The Tottenham's board of directors cut off his arm and chose to change coaches at this time is not only an echo of the league's tragic situation, but also a plan for future multi-line battles. For Postkoglu, using a European trophy as a farewell gift may be the best ending to be written in the cruel ending.