NEW Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou has claimed that he won the Champions League with Southend on football manager.
The Australian, 57, was named the new boss at Spurs after winning back-to-back Scottish championships with Celtic.
Despite winning 21 major titles at previous clubs, Postecoglou has managed, there have been concerns from supporters that he lacks experience at the top level.
However, not many managers can say they have taken a club from non-league to the pinnacle of European football.
But this is exactly what Postecoglou can say as he revealed that he took Southend on an amazing journey in the game, Football Manager.
In 2020, he told The Sydney Morning Herald: “I had to knock back some big clubs to stay the course.
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“I used journeymen and loaners to get out of the lower divisions, then bought young unknowns from Italy and South America.
“I didn’t mess about with tactics – I just wheeled and dealed. Harry Redknapp on steroids.”
However, despite helping the club rise through the cyber ranks, his journey ended in heartbreak as he was sacked by the Southend board less than a year after winning the Champions League.
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He added: “I got sacked six months after winning the Champions League.
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“I’d knocked back Juventus, Real Madrid and the England national team before then.
“No loyalty after everything I did for them. I was gutted. Hopefully got a statue there.”
Despite the achievement only being on a computer game, Football Manager is used by real clubs to scout players using its extensive player database.
Sports Interactive, the game’s developers, have been praised in the past for the level of detail that is in the annual game.
Postecoglou, however, can not do the same at Spurs next season as the club failed to qualify for any European football.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
