The Tottenham supporters could be heard chanting for their former head coach on Sunday. Despite crashing out of the FA Cup - seeing their hopes of domestic success ripped apart with two exits in four days - the Spurs supporters were in full voice at Villa Park on Sunday.

The away fans were the ones you could hear almost from start to finish during the 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa. And one chant will have resonated for the wrong reasons, just like one about Daniel Levy did days prior.

"He's magic, you know, Mauricio Pochettino," could be heard being sung from the visiting section inside Villa Park. With Ange Postecoglou under increasing pressure week after week, the Spurs fans are harking back to better days.

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Pochettino has a job currently - he is head coach of the USA national team - and there are no indications that Tottenham would make a move to bring the Argentinian back to the club. football.london understands Postecoglou's position remains safe at this time and that no one is being lined up to replace him right now.

Spurs are 14th in the Premier League though, with the Europa League the only trophy left open to them this season - a season in which Postecoglou admitted he "always wins silverware".

Tottenham finished in the top four in four consecutive seasons under Pochettino and challenged for the Premier League title in two of those seasons. They also reached the Carabao Cup final and the Champions League final, although ultimately failed to claim any silverware.

Such heights seem a long away away right now and hearing chants about Pochettino are perhaps no surprise. He has been vindicated in what he said prior to leaving, however.

Before he was sacked in 2019, the Argentine declared there needed to be a "painful rebuild" in N17.

"When you talk about Tottenham, everyone says you have an amazing house but you need to put in the furniture," he said. "If you want to have a lovely house maybe you need better furniture. And it depends on your budget if you are going to spend money. We need to be respectful with teams like Manchester City or Liverpool who spend a lot of money. We are brave, we are clever, we are creative.

"Now it’s about creating another chapter and to have the clear idea of how we are going to build that new project. We need to rebuild. It’s going to be painful."

That painful rebuild did not come. Pochettino would be sacked in November of 2019 - six months after making that admission - and Spurs are now on their fourth permanent manager since those words.

In fairness, there has been something of a rebuild under Postecoglou. Spurs have moved to bring in talented young players like Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall, Wilson Odobert, Mathys Tel and Antonin Kinsky in recent transfer windows to secure a budding future for the club. However, the here and now has been beset by injuries and Postecoglou is left paying the price of not being given a deep enough squad.

Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher saw if coming, even before Pochettino made those rebuild comments. In 2018, with Spurs flourishing under the Argentine, Carragher took aim at Spurs' lack of spending. In a segment on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football, Tottenham's net spend was highlighted in comparison with everyone else in the top four.

Carragher said: "What he has done is unbelievable. The money spent, to get Tottenham in the top four consistently, we're talking about net spend compared to the others.

"Tottenham in five, ten years' time this team will break up the manger will leave and no one will be going back and looking at net spend and points and what they did, they'll just be going 'did they win anything?'

"No way should that manager and those players get that thrown at them. If anyone is going to get it thrown at them why they didn't win anything it's Daniel Levy and the board at Tottenham, because net spend of £29million is not acceptable for one of the biggest clubs in the country. Teams who come up and get promoted have a bigger net spend than that!"

The net spend in the last five years has been much more comparable to the rest of the big six in the Premier League, but Tottenham have not got close to the Premier League title or silverware, bar one Carabao Cup final appointment, since Pochettino left.