Mikel Arteta and Angel Postcoglou (photo via Hayters, Justin Setterfield / Getty Images)
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta couldn’t help laughing because Angel Postocoou was dismissed despite a trophy for Tottenham last season.
The Australian tactrician is now back in management, having been unveiled as a new Putingham forest director this week, replacing the Nuno Espirito Santo in time to face Arsenal in the Premier League this weekend.
Speaking during his press conference on Friday, Arteta received rather advanced questions that, despite his controversial style of play, Postcoglou seems to offer silverware.
The Spurs won the Europa League final last season under the direction of PostCoglou, although this is not enough to keep it in work.
Mikel Arteta seems to have fun in the disgusting of postocoou angel spurs
Watch the video below because these questions about the trophies are asked in Arteta, the Spanish tactician who does not really take the bait because he seemed to be a questioning line designed to put the Arsenal manager under the spotlights for not having won a trophy in the past five years …
? Reporter: Is it important if Postcoglou plays a reckless style if he wins him from the trophies?
Arteta: No, because the Spurs dismissed him anyway! ? pic.twitter.com/tcuswlolom
– Kingingoffside (@caughtoffside) September 12, 2025
When asked if the trophies’ victory was the most important thing, Arteta rightly stressed that it is clearly not always, because Postcoglou did not keep his job in Tottenham.
For all speeches on trophies, it is important to remember that Arsenal has been superbly consistent in recent years, finishing second place three times in a row.
There is no trophy for that, but it is probably more difficult to do than finish 17th and win the Europa League as Tottenham did.
It will be interesting to see what the atmosphere between these two managers looks like when they meet at the Emirates stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Postcoglou has no good file against Arteta, after having drew 2-2 in his first Derby in Northern London, before losing the following three games they had against each other.
