Alan Shearer and Roy Keane agree on Ange Postecoglou next job after Tottenham sack

Alan Shearer believes Ange Postecoglou could return to the Premier League in the future following his sacking at Tottenham.

The Australian guided Spurs to their first trophy in 17 years last month when the Lilywhites won the Europa League but it was not enough to save his job. Tottenham ended the 2024/25 season fourth from bottom in the Premier League and Postecoglou was relieved of his duties last Friday.

Thomas Frank has since been appointed as Postecoglou’s replacement, with the Dane signing a three-year contract at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Postecoglou did deliver on his promise of always winning silverware in his second season and Shearer feels “he’ll get another big job” very soon.

Speaking to Betfair, Shearer said: “Imagine you haven’t won a trophy for 17 years, and a lot longer than that in European football, and you had a manager who had a tonne of injuries but still delivered the trophy and Champions League football, then you sack him? They’ll have their reasons for the decision, I get that. Perhaps because they finished fourth from bottom then you may have to look at the bigger picture but I was surprised.

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“When a manager delivers what he says he will, with an incredible injury list then yeah, sometimes I look at it and think about what a crazy game football is. I’m not surprised fans got behind him because he said he’d deliver a trophy and he did it. He promised he’d do that and I guess the reward for it is, he got the sack.

“If you look at it from Ange’s point-of-view, Spurs are obviously a very difficult club to manage so I hope he gets a really good payoff, the fans will remember him forever and there’s no doubt he’ll get another big job. I really do think that Premier League teams will be looking at him. I hope he gets a job in the Premier League.

“The argument is that Tottenham finished fourth bottom and they were really, really poor. You can’t argue against that, but the bigger picture is that he delivered them a trophy that they so badly and desperately wanted, like Newcastle did. It’d been so long and he’s given them Champions League football next season. I guess he’ll go off with a big payoff, smile and watch them in the Champions League next season.”

Roy Keane shared a similar view to Shearer and also backed Postecoglou to return to work quickly. Speaking on ITV, Keane said: “Winning a trophy for the club was a great day for the club and obviously the big plus was getting back in the Champions League. But they’ve felt the league form, not just this season but at the end of last season wasn’t good enough.

“It’s always sad to see a manager losing his job but you’d like to think Ange will be fixed up pretty quickly because he won a trophy. The league form hasn’t been good enough but you’d think the trophy would have given him an opportunity to stay a bit longer.”