Tottenham Hotspur have appointed Thomas Frank because the membership’s new head coach after prying the supervisor away from his earlier submit at Brentford.
Spurs made the announcement on Thursday.
ESPN reported that Spurs had been hopeful of naming Frank, 51, as Ange Postecoglou’s successor after additionally contemplating Fulham boss Marco Silva and Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola.
Postecoglou was sacked simply 16 days after main Spurs to Europa League glory, ending a 17-year anticipate silverware with a 1-0 win over Manchester United in Bilbao.
“In Thomas we’re appointing one of the progressive and revolutionary head coaches inside the sport,” a membership assertion mentioned. “He has a confirmed monitor file in participant and squad improvement and we stay up for him main the staff as we put together for the season forward.”
Postecoglou’s achievement within the Europa League was overshadowed by a woeful Premier League season which noticed Tottenham end seventeenth with 22 defeats, their worst marketing campaign because the membership had been relegated in 1977.
And Frank has now made the transfer throughout London after spending seven years at Brentford. He guided the membership to promotion from the Championship in 2021 after Brentford beat Swansea Metropolis within the 2021 Championship playoff last.
Underneath the Danish head coach, Brentford have turn out to be a longtime Premier League staff with a fame for top depth, forward-thinking soccer.
Of their 4 Premier League seasons beneath Frank, Brentford completed thirteenth, ninth, sixteenth and tenth. Final time period solely 4 groups scored greater than their 66 objectives.
A eager person of participant information, Frank and his backroom employees have proved particularly adept at unearthing gems and transferring these gamers on for big income, reminiscent of forwards Ollie Watkins, Ivan Toney and Saïd Benrahma, plus goalkeeper David Raya
Regardless of the outgoings, Brentford have managed to stay aggressive within the prime flight beneath Frank and final season had been within the combine for European qualification.
Info from Reuters was used on this story.
