Aussie's record of uniting fractured clubs makes him the perfect choice

IN Ange Postecoglou, Tottenham would be appointing a coach with a reputation for playing exactly the kind of "free-flowing, attacking and entertaining" football which chairman Daniel Levy wants to return to, but perhaps most appealing about the Australian is his record of uniting fractured clubs.

- Dan Kilpatrick

Spurs finished a miserable campaign with a broken dressing room - the players' confidence shattered by their public evisceration by Antonio Conte and the 6-1 humiliation at Newcastle - and fans calling for Levy to resign and out of patience with several members of the squad. The mood could not be more different to the heyday of Mauricio Pochettino's tenure, when a thread of unity ran through the club from boardroom to terraces, directly through the charismatic Argentine.

After the underwhelming tenures of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, Spurs desperately want to go back to being a united club again.