ANGE POSTECOGLOU is in the dark over his future as he prepares for his do-or-die clash in Germany.
The Tottenham boss will be in danger of the sack if his team lose their Europa League quarter-final second leg at Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday night – where they are without injured captain Son Heung-min.
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That is because it would extinguish any chance of salvaging what has been a miserable campaign in the league where Spurs are out of both cups and down to 15th in the league.
There have been some suggestions his job would be under threat even if he went all the way in Europe this term given how badly the Prem form has been.
Asked if he knew what his future holds whatever happens this term, the Aussie replied: “Do I know? No, I’ve got no idea.
“We’ve got a game tomorrow night… but it’s not something I need to think about.
“I’ve never thought about those kind of things in terms of what’s important.
“What’s important is we have a game tomorrow night that’s a massive opportunity for this group of players, for us as a team, for this football club to get closer to achieving what everyone wants to achieve.
“Anything else other than that, and particularly in terms of me, I don’t have much thought process that thinks about life or my career or what I’m doing in that way.”
Postecoglou has lost 17 games in the league this season and went out of the Carabao Cup at the semi-final stage as well as the FA Cup in round four.
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It heaps the pressure on Thursday night’s trip to a hostile Deutsche Bank Stadium, where the scores are tied 1-1 after last week’s first leg in North London.
But the ex-Celtic boss, 59, insisted he was not being weighed down by the occasion.
He said: “No, not at all, mate, because I don’t define my career and me as a person by what people think about me. I never have. Never will.
“You either think I’m capable of doing the job now or you don’t. That’s where I sit with these things.
“If people think that us winning tomorrow all of a sudden makes me a better manager than what I am today or us losing tomorrow somehow makes me a worse manager, I guess that’s their burden, not mine.
“I don’t think that way and I don’t think most people think that way. Or I’d like to think they don’t, in terms of their own sort of self esteem and who they are as people.
“I couldn’t care less. Really. I couldn’t care less.
“There’s no burden on me, there’s no anxiety on me. What I’m sitting here doing is thinking we’ve got a great opportunity to get to the final four of a major tournament.
“Mate, I’m not going to let that slip by without fighting tooth and nail for it irrespective of what may come the day after.”
Skipper Son, 32, did not travel due to a foot injury which kept him out of Sunday’s 4-2 loss at Wolves – though Kevin Danso is available following five weeks out with a hamstring issue.
The South Korean’s absence is just the latest in a string of crock problems that have dogged the Spurs squad all season long.
Postecoglou added: “It’s a blow but it’s consistent with everything else that’s happened this year, so it’s just another challenge for us to overcome.”
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