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 current 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 explanation why I took the job, so I might get a little bit bit extra threat into my every 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 all the pieces I do, each resolution I’ve made up to now, all the pieces 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 all the pieces, daily, to work in direction of taking this membership to new heights. That’s the ambition.
“If I used to be not formidable, I’d 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 optimistic they gained. They bought the trophy that this membership deserved.
“Hopefully we will add to that. The primary intention is to have the ability to compete in all 4 tournaments.
“That must be the ambition we construct in direction of. The 2019 Champions League last was the final season the membership was in a position to compete in multiple competitors.
“We want to have the ability to compete in Europe and the cups. In case you can compete, there’s a likelihood you might be high.”
