Spurs take on Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final on Thursday (10.04.25) and the under-pressure Australian coach is aware that continental success may not be enough to save his job following a dismal Premier League campaign.

Postecoglou said: "I just think we're in that position that the good stuff we may do is going to be turned into a glass half full rhetoric and from that perspective I don't think that can be a driver in what we want to do. The lads are really keen to bring success to the club.

"(Someone) wrote that even if we win it, I'm gone anyway. That's not having a go at you, that's just saying the general sentiment of people. So if you're trying to use that as a motivation, you're not going to win that anyway."

Despite his job at Spurs being under threat, Postecoglou is determined to "struggle" on as he has throughout his coaching career.

He said: "Anything you achieve in life usually comes with a struggle. Certainly everything I have achieved in my life has come with a struggle from a professional perspective.

"This is just another struggle, but never through this struggle have I lost the will to fight for what I think is the right thing to do and I'll continue to do that."

Postecoglou believes that reaching the last eight of the Europa League is an achievement to celebrate for Spurs in a season that has been punctuated by injury problems.

He said: "I think it's significant. I think the lads have worked hard. We've had a tough European campaign, very similar to our league, where it's very disrupted and we're relying a lot on some young players.

"But we've got to the final eight, which I think is something that we've earned. There's a platform there.

"You want more of that. You're in the final eight, you sense there's an opportunity to make a bigger impact. So that's where the focus is."