Tottenham appoint Frank as new manager

Tottenham Hotspur name Thomas Frank to regenerate sacked Europa League-winning brag Ange Postecoglou.

Tottenham Hotspur person named Thomas Frank arsenic their 5th imperishable manager successful six years with the Premier League nine confirming they had hired the erstwhile Brentford brag connected a three-year contract.

He replaces the sacked Ange Postecoglou.

The 51-year-old Dane, who has been successful complaint of Brentford since 2018 and established them successful the apical flight, volition instrumentality complaint of a nine that volition instrumentality portion successful adjacent year’s Champions League aft they won the Europa League past period successful Bilbao.

“In Thomas we are appointing 1 of the astir progressive and innovative caput coaches wrong the game,” a nine connection said connected Thursday.

“He has a proven way grounds successful subordinate and squad improvement and we look guardant to him starring the squad arsenic we hole for the play ahead.”

Australian Postecoglou’s accomplishment successful delivering Spurs’ archetypal trophy for 17 years was overshadowed by a woeful Premier League season, which saw them decorativeness 17th with 22 defeats, their worst run since the nine were relegated successful 1977.

Frank began his coaching vocation with Denmark’s under-age sides earlier taking complaint astatine Brondby successful 2013, leaving successful March 2016, and successful December that twelvemonth joined Brentford arsenic adjunct to Dean Smith successful the Championship (second tier).

In October 2018 aft the dismissal of Smith, Frank was appointed Bees manager.

“From the infinitesimal helium replaced Dean Smith, helium understood what we were trying to build, and his wisdom, coaching quality and affectional quality person helped alteration the club,” Brentford Director of Football Phil Giles said.

“We volition ne'er hide Thomas, but present it is clip to convey him and instrumentality the adjacent steps successful our travel with a caller person who we judge tin beryllium conscionable arsenic palmy and influential.”

Thomas Frank volition question to physique connected Tottenham’s accomplishment of winning their archetypal trophy successful 17 years  [Dylan Martinez/Reuters]

Frank has been awesome during his clip astatine Brentford, creating a high-scoring broadside who person punched supra their value since reaching the Premier League successful 2021 via the playoffs.

In their 4 Premier League seasons nether Frank, Brentford person finished 13th, ninth, 16th and 10th, and past term, lone 4 teams scored much than their 66 goals.

An anxious idiosyncratic of subordinate data, Frank and his backroom unit person proved particularly adept astatine unearthing gems and selling those players connected for immense profits, specified arsenic forwards Ollie Watkins, Ivan Toney and Said Benrahma positive goalkeeper David Raya

Despite the outgoings, Brentford person managed to stay competitory successful the apical formation nether Frank and past play were successful the premix for European qualification.

Forwards Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa scored 39 Premier League goals betwixt them past season, and some could good beryllium Tottenham targets during the adjacent season.

Frank has gained a estimation for his attraction to detail, and it is nary astonishment that his Brentford broadside scored wrong 40 seconds successful 3 successive league games past season.

“We person a kickoff strategy, and we tweak it from crippled to game. And arsenic a mindset and philosophy, we similar to get consecutive connected the beforehand ft and beryllium positive,” Frank said astatine the time.

He present faces a wholly antithetic situation astatine Tottenham, and a accelerated commencement to his reign volition beryllium important to triumph implicit fans, who felt Postecoglou should person been rewarded for winning a trophy by being fixed different play astatine the helm.

Brentford adjunct first-team manager Justin Cochrane, caput of diversion show Chris Haslam and first-team expert Joe Newton are besides joining Frank astatine Spurs on with Andreas Georgson from Manchester United.

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