In a strange turn of luck, Tottenham Hotspur have come to an end to their 17-year-old trophy drought in the middle of their worst high campaign for a generation, leaving the club leader Daniel Levy in something of a pickle in connection with the man responsible for everyone above: Postecoglou.

There is a certain cosmic irony in momentNeighborhoods of English football, raising European silver in a season where the shape of their league collapsed like a wet souffle.

However, here we are.

Postecoglou, the philosopher Aussie with a loud voice of possession football, has led the London side on their first continental trophy since 1984.

Let’s get good things – at least for Spurs fans – off the road: Tottenham won the Europa League.

No, seriously. In a campaign where their ambitions in the Premier League were engulfed faster than a against the against ChelseaPostecoglou in some way organized in Europe that across Europe that culminated with a 1-0 win excessive Manchester United In the final at San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao.

Tactically, Australia’s high -line signature and complex offensive transitions finally clicked against the continental opposition.

Spurs on average 1.87 goals for the Europa League match, with Brennan Johnson scoring the decisive goal in the final. The data tells its story: the Europa League and Tottenham campaign was marked by resistance and efficiency, strongly opposing their internal problems.

In the Premier League, they on average 1.68 goals per match and reached only six clean sheets in their 38 games, second only for the 2003 and 2023 seasons, where they held only five.

They held six clean sheets in only 15 European matches this season, including in a relatively low final in Bilbao against a very powerless Manchester United and seemingly broken.

Very little, too late?

However, under the splendor of the silver of the trophy lies a season of contradiction.

Spurs ended the 17th in the Premier League, their worst end of the high flight since the 1976/77 season. It is their lowest ending ever in the Premier League era.

Lower than the traumatic days of Christian Goss’s leadership.

Lower than the unpleasant reality of having Ian Walker as a first choice holder.

Lower than when their main offensive threat was an Irish named Gary DohertyA quarterback disguised as striker and lovingly, if self-private, known as ‘Ginger Pele’.

They accepted 65 goals, went without winning in eight of their last 10 matches in the league and failed to defeat a single six after Christmas. It was, according to internal standards, a collapse – especially considering the impressive beginning of life he had made only the season before.

Spurs had a terrible disaster of damage, especially in defense: Postecoglou was able to create a backwardness of the first choice of Guglielmo Vicario, Destiny Udogie, Micky Van de Ven, Cristian Romero and Pedro Porro in eight cases in the Premier League this season.

But they still lost three of those matches, and won only half.

The difficult truth is, in every other season in the history of the English flight, the spurs were likely to have moved.

No place for feeling

Now, Levy faces a moment that requires cold clarity, not sentimental fraud.

Yes, Postecoglou has given European glory, but if Manchester United taught us anything After losing their city companion to the FA 2023/24 Cup finalis that the jeweler can be a smoke screen.

Erik Ten Hag’s brief repetition after raising the cup only delayed the inevitable. United sank deeper, climbing in hope as the structure continued to rot around all the club areas.

The Red Devils, blinded by their first significant contribution to football in Yonks, activated a one -year extension in the Dutch contract next week, mainly due to the pressure of the fan and a special lack of the managerial alternatives available at the time.

Until next October, just three months later, Ten Hag disappeared, with the club sliding on the table at 14 in the Premier League with only three wins from their nine opening matches.

At that time, it was difficult – perhaps even impossible – to move any dead weight, start a reconstruction and make every progress reserve the table under the new boss Ruben amorimwho did not necessarily want to join at that moment in time. Remember, the Portuguese coach had initially sought to leave his sporting post at the end of the season.

In spite of them somehow by making their way to the Europa League final, United was probably a team that Spurs could feel safe playing against, after beating them three times during the season.

An abnormality of the form

Like the Ten Hag’s Fa Cup victory, the Europa League run of Postecoglou was exciting, but it was also isolated-a tale of the heroism of the Nokau divorced by the inner inconsistency of the week, the week.

His tactics of his league were soon and repeatedly exposed by almost everyone (except United), his protective structure was porous, and his inability to adapt against pressing parties was worrying.

Of course, injuries played a role, as well as the lack of competitive transfer activity that was focused on here and now by Levy. But you work with the tools you were given, and Postecolgou will have been aware of Levy’s features before joining.

Rewarding a good month with another year of potential subformation would be foolish.

Ange has won hearts

This is not a call to ignore what he achieved. Postecoglou deserves thanks, many plaudits, and perhaps even a statue outside the club museum with a bubble cast bronze attached, reading “Mate”; However, another season at the top seems very dangerous.

Spurs – both the club and the fans – may want to be ruthless, not romantic.

Because if there is one thing that football fans have learned from Erik Ten Hag’s saga, is that the worst reconstruction is the ones that never begin.

Levy has the chance to learn from United’s error: Don’t let a trophy realize your vision.

Start the next chapter now, with a manager who can build in all competitions (now miraculously includes the Champions League), not just riding the adrenaline of the previous campaign. Soufflé, unfortunately, is already flat.

‘Big ange’ has won its flowers. He has won the hearts of spurs fans forever. He now has the power to controversially offering the biggest decline in the germ in the history of English football, as he constantly supported his claims “always win in a second season”.

He can walk away with his head held up and the reputation in a better place than he might have been, while Levy has a trophy that can receive groups of fans and protesters from his back for a while while he lists his and his bosses with price money.

However, what Levy has to do, has returned to another manager in what will undoubtedly be an attractive transfer window for the Londoners, as they seek to add to what, at least on paper, looks like a good team boasting some extremely talented young men.

Just don’t go looking for Sir Jim Ratcliffe for tips on what to do.