Ange Postecoglou will ‘get out big bat and pummel people’ to find Tottenham mole

Ange Postecoglou has joked that he will ‘get out the big bat and pummel people’ to find the mole who has been leaking information at Tottenham.

The Spurs boss has ‘no doubt’ somebody at the club has been leaking team news this season after online rumours emerged that Wilson Odobert would going to miss the Europa League game against Eintracht Frankfurt.

Odobert was ultimately named in the squad for the 1-1 quarter-final draw against the German side on Thursday but didn’t make it off the bench.

Postecoglou is adamant the ‘mole’ isn’t a player or an agent and has labelled the leaks ‘unacceptable’, believing the culprit is harming the club, as he vowed to get the the bottom of what is going on in north London.

‘Just get out the big bat and pummel people!’ Postecoglou joked on Friday about finding the mole, later adding that the leaks first started last year. ‘There’s always a bit of detective work in football management.

‘I’m big on creating a culture of success and I don’t think successful organisations behave in [this] manner.’

The Australian already appears to have a good idea of the culprit’s identity and says the leaks are ‘a bit of everything’ rather than just medical news.

‘It’s a simple process – you just look where the information goes and it’s pretty easy to figure out,’ Postecoglou added.

‘It’s not agents. Definitely not agents. The stuff that is coming out is pretty specific. The language used is not used by agents, trust me.

‘I’m not suspecting anybody. It’s definitely not the players because for me the information that is getting out is…

‘Look, I’ve always said, especially with medical information, I’m really, really careful.

‘Even though we’re in the world of football and I know everyone thinks these things should be carte blanche in terms of information flow, I’m still very respectful in terms of medical records and how much information we actually give on certain things.

‘Sometimes players don’t want that information disclosed, it’s as simple as that.

‘The fact that it is getting out is unacceptable, from a club perspective, because it doesn’t help us and from an individual’s perspective because it doesn’t help him.

‘As a club, I just think, I’ve got enough challenges out there without adding more to ours.

‘It’s been going on for a while. It started last year. We thought we had nipped it in the bud but it’s still consistently coming out at different times.

‘You try to keep the circle of information pretty tight.

‘I don’t understand why people would do it, especially if they’re, so-called, in our camp because I don’t know how it’s helpful to us.

‘It certainly doesn’t seem to be helpful to us.

‘Sometimes for us information is best kept in our closed doors because we have oppositions trying to analyse us and trying to see if they can get some extra information on us.

‘There are various ways you can find these things out. You hope that people come to their senses after a while.

‘But it just continues to happen. We’ll get to the bottom of it.

‘We’ll deal with it internally. Like you deal with anything. You do the right thing and deal with it.

‘It’s about trying to make us as a football club run as professionally as we possibly can in terms of information flow and how we conduct ourselves. I don’t think any organisation, if you have people giving out sensitive information, particularly on the medical front or the tactical front, then you need to address it.

‘It’s always [an issue] in football. In various ways. But certainly not as consistent as this. Usually when you address it the first time, key people understand. But this one seems to be consistent.’