Mark Bosnich's text to Ange after brutal sacking
SEN • October 21st, 2025 4:30 pm

Mark Bosnich has taken a deep dive into what lies ahead for Ange Postecoglou.
Having been sacked by Nottingham Forest just 39 days after taking over the role, all eyes remain on the future of the European champion.
With Ange’s Premier League track record hardly supporting a likely return to the English top flight, the Australian manager will have ample to consider in the coming months.
Damning stats
“There are some stats that don’t look particularly kind on Ange,” Bosnich told Gloves Off.
“It looks like Sean Dyche, the ex-Everton and Burnley manager has agreed terms and will take over (at Forest). We talk about Ange having the complete opposite philosophy in terms of football from Nuno Espirito Santo, well Sean Dyche is the opposite of that as well.
“In terms of stats, it must be said, Ange’s last 17 games in the Premier League, both at Spurs and (Forest), he has only yielded one win.
“I think he should have got more time, but the bottom line is, who pays the piper calls the tune. The chairmen, who we know from his record, is a very ambitious man, and you have to say fair play to him in a way, because he has obviously realised that it wasn’t happening.”
Effect of Australian football
“We went through a period in Australian football where the way that you were playing became a little bit more important, which is understandable because we are still selling the game in this country.
“I did notice for a time, there was a lot of emphasis on the way that people were playing as opposed to results. Whether that had a little bit of an effect in Ange’s development, because obviously he started his coaching career here – and the way that it went on, I don’t know.
“Nick Montgomery, who was a really good player here for Central Coast Mariners, Mile Jedinak, ex-Socceroos captain in his backroom staff – that’s great, that’s brilliant. But I just think for somebody who is just coming to the Premier League, that someone of a little more seniority and experience would have been advisable to have right next to him.”
Will he return to management?
“I don’t think it’s the end of his managerial career – he might have to take a bit of a sabbatical from the Premier League and move abroad for a while, but I don’t think it’s the end of his managerial career, but who’s to know.
“He is over 60 now, he might turn around and think to himself, ‘I had a great run, I made a lot of money, I want to go home to Australia for a while’. I don’t think that will be the case, and I hope it’s not.
“We’ve got some other great managers; Graham Arnold, Tony Popovic, Kevin Muscat, there’s some great Australian managers around. But right at this moment in time, I still think that he is our greatest manager, and it will be a tough time for him.
“Take a little bit of a sabbatical, maybe come back home for a while, do some media just like he did before he went back into coaching with Brisbane Roar.
“The right opportunity will come up for him. That might not be in the Premier League, that might be somewhere else. It may be in the international side. Greece, where he was born, they have just been knocked out of the World Cup.
"The Euro qualifiers will start this time next year, maybe he might want to take their job. Maybe there’s a team that will go to the World Cup and wants to make a last-minute change.
“I do believe that he will be back, but so far as I’m concerned, especially if it’s club management, I’d at least wait until minimum January, so if you go into a club you have that transfer window to make sure you can bring in players that you know play the way that you want to play.”
Bozza’s text to Ange
“I reached out to him to congratulate him on getting the job, and I didn’t hear back from him.
"I reached to him this morning as well just to let him know that I’m thinking about him, and just to say to come back to Australia for a bit, do some media work and rejuvenate yourself.
“Haven’t heard back but that’s okay, it might not still even be his number. It won’t be an easy time for him.
“Sometimes during troubled times it’s good to travel over the oceans, put it that way.”