Angel Postcoglou insists that the person who flees information on Tottenham’s injuries and team selections is not one of his players. Postcoglou said there was a mole of the club after speculation on social networks on the fact that Wilson Odobert was sidelined for the quarter-final of the Europa League on Thursday against Eintracht Francfurt with an injury to the hamstrings. Odobert was finally appointed unused substitute for the first stage in northern London, but the last information leak in Tottenham prompted Postcoglou to make its grievances public.
The Australian team under fire languished in 14th place in the Premier League before Sunday’s trip to Wolves.
And PostCoglou is convinced that someone outside the team is trying to undermine their offer to avoid the bag.
“It has been happening for some time. It started last year. We thought we had smothered it in the egg, but it still comes out at different times,” he told journalists on Friday.
“You try to keep the circle of information quite tight. I do not understand why people would do it, especially if they are supposedly in our camp because I do not know how it is useful to us. This certainly does not seem useful.
“These are not agents. Certainly not agents. The things that come out are quite specific. The language used is not used by the agents. They are certainly not the players.”
Postcoglou has endured a second difficult season in charge, with Tottenham’s last hope to end his 17 -year -old trophy drought with the Europa League.
Leak is the last issue of the former Celtic boss, which is unhappy that private medical information on players have been authorized to become public knowledge.
“Even if we are in the world of football and I know that everyone thinks that these things should be carte blanche in terms of information flow, I am always very respectful in terms of medical records and the amount of information that we really give on certain things,” he said.
“Sometimes players do not want this information to be disclosed, it is as simple as that. The fact that it comes out is unacceptable, from the point of view of the club, because that does not help us and from an individual’s point of view because that does not help him.
“As a club, I just think that I have enough challenges without adding more to ours.
“We are going to face it internally. As you treat anything. You do the right thing and you treat it.”
Postcoglou joked by saying that he had turned into a fictitious detective Jack Reacher to discover the source of the leak.
“There is always a little detective work in football management. I think it is a cultural thing. I am great to create a culture of success and I do not think that successful organizations behave in this way,” he said.
“This is the song that we are constantly, not only me, but the other people of the club try to change and try to bring the club to a place where there is a real mentality and a strong identity from who we are and to protect this.”
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