Thomas Frank is undaunted by Tottenham’s historical past of sacking managers as he will get set to take cost of his first sport with the membership.
Frank was appointed as the successor for Ange Postecoglou after the Australian was sacked regardless of guiding Tottenham to Europa League glory, with a Seventeenth-placed end and 21 defeats within the Premier League resulting in his exit.
Postecoglou grew to become the fifth supervisor to be sacked by Tottenham throughout Frank’s earlier tenure at Brentford. Having taken over in 2018, Frank led the Bees to promotion from the Championship in 2021 and subsequently stabilised them as a Premier League membership in spectacular trend.
Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte had been additionally sacked by Spurs throughout Frank’s time with their London rivals.
However the Dane is undeterred by that worrying latest historical past.
Frank instructed a pre-match media convention forward of Saturday’s pleasant with Studying: “I wish to problem myself.
“I’ve been that privileged, I’ve by no means been sacked earlier than. In order that’s one of many the reason why I took the job, so I might get just a little bit extra threat into my day by day life.
“I’m coming to an enormous membership that’s treasured. We have to carry out as a result of it’s we. It’s me, it’s the employees, it’s the gamers, it’s everybody. And we have to do this collectively.
“So I just like the ambitions and the whole lot I do, each determination I’ve made up to now, the whole lot is for the long run.
“It’s not about surviving one sport or one yr or 18 months or what’s the common, no, it’s for the long term.
“I’ll do the whole lot, day-after-day, to work in the direction of taking this membership to new heights. That’s the ambition.
“If I used to be not bold, I might not sit right here. I’m wanting ahead to it.”
Requested about Spurs’ 1-0 win over Manchester United within the Europa League last, Postecoglou added: “It was constructive they gained. They bought the trophy that this membership deserved.
“Hopefully we are able to add to that. The primary purpose is to have the ability to compete in all 4 tournaments.
“That needs to be the ambition we construct in the direction of. The 2019 Champions League last was the final season the membership was in a position to compete in a couple of competitors.
“We want to have the ability to compete in Europe and the cups. When you can compete, there’s a probability you could be high.”
