{"id":179252,"date":"2025-06-12T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179252\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:27:11","slug":"done-deal-thomas-frank-announced-as-tottenham-hotspur-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179252\/","title":{"rendered":"DONE DEAL: Thomas Frank announced as Tottenham Hotspur head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"BB9lod\">It was the worst-kept secret in the Premier League, and now it\u2019s official \u2014 Thomas Frank has been named the new head coach of <a href=\"https:\/\/cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>, replacing Ange Postecoglou. He joins the club from Brentford, having taken the Bees from the Championship and turning them into a solid top half Premier League team. Tottenham are said to have paid a fee of approximately \u00a310m to buy out his Brentford contract. Frank joins Spurs through the end of the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are delighted to announce the appointment of Thomas Frank as our new Head Coach on a contract that runs until 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Thomas!  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1933241935965401545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 12, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"O14lyP\">Frank joins the club at a rather tender point in Tottenham history. His predecessor, Postecoglou, had a somewhat fractious relationship with fans, but led a deeply flawed and perpetually injured Spurs team to the Europa League championship, the club\u2019s first trophy in 17 years and first European title since 1984. Postecoglou\u2019s dismissal was met with disbelief from many supporters, who argued that Ange deserved another chance to turn things around. <\/p>\n<p id=\"WdQ091\">Thomas Frank is a good manager. While unproven in European competition, the Danish manager has helped take Brentford from an afterthought to one of the more respected teams in the Premier League. He appears to be well placed to continue Tottenham\u2019s rebuild in a progressive style of football, though one perhaps a little more pragmatic than under Big Ange. <\/p>\n<p id=\"8p8QX7\">And by all accounts Frank is also an excellent human. He\u2019s very well respected by his colleagues in the Premier League and by his current and former players. He\u2019s adopted an informal \u201cno d**kheads\u201d policy of player acquisition that is similar to that of Postecoglou. He\u2019s also a proven developer of players, getting the most out of guys like Ivan Toney, Bryan Mbeumo, and Yoane Wissa.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1zOHy4\">Nevertheless, Frank has quite a job ahead of him. He needs to find a way to unite a divided fanbase that\u2019s still experiencing whiplash from Bilbao to Postecoglou\u2019s sacking, oversee what could be a hugely important summer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/transfer-rumors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transfer window<\/a>, and will a short-handed Spurs squad to a vastly improved Premier League table finish. In some ways I don\u2019t envy him, but in other ways it\u2019s an incredible opportunity. Early returns suggest that while fans are still angry at chairman Daniel Levy, Frank joins the club with supporters ready to give him a chance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cJvUL4\">Welcome to our new head coach, the Great Dane, Thomas Frank.  <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the worst-kept secret in the Premier League, and now it\u2019s official \u2014 Thomas Frank has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[73810,27616,6702,6701,31481,19289,73809,13044,5899,163,19266,6690,79,18878,1368,16433,16,15],"class_list":["post-179252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-announced","tag-as","tag-captain","tag-cartilage","tag-coach","tag-deal","tag-done","tag-frank","tag-free","tag-front-page","tag-head","tag-hotspur","tag-sports","tag-thomas","tag-tottenham","tag-tottenham-hotspur-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114672280732938074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}