Thomas Frank doesn\u2019t have the \u201ccharacter\u201d or \u201cthe balls\u201d to \u201ccontrol the dressing room\u201d at Tottenham and is doomed to fail, according to a former Spurs player.<\/p>\n
A 4-1 thumping a the hands of bitter rivals Arsenal on Sunday has ramped up the pressure on Frank, who was already feeling the heat having only taken charge in the summer on the back of a similarly insipid display against Chelsea.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Spurs: Very, very good against PSG, apart from all the times they were very, very bad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n A 5-3 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain hasn\u2019t helped his cause as large swathes of Spurs fans are calling for his head having quickly grown tired of his style of football.<\/p>\n And former Spurs defender Ramon Vega, who spent four years at the club, argues that Frank is making \u201cthe players very insecure\u201d by changing his team, making it very hard for them to \u201crespect\u201d him.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is changing his mind every two seconds,\u201d Vega told talkSPORT<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cOne thing with Ange, whatever you criticise him, he might be limited in his own way, but he had the balls. He stuck to his guns. He did what he wanted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe players need this kind of certainty in the dressing room. That\u2019s why I think when Ange was winning the Europa League with the young boys, 80 per cent of the season was with the young boys [due to injuries], the dressing room was sticking to him. And you can see that.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not sure this dressing room is starting to respect Frank because he\u2019s changing how they play. They don\u2019t know where to go, what to do. They haven\u2019t got a strategically stable place to go.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the dressing room, as a player, when you know what the coach wants and he\u2019s doing it week in, week out, the mentality is there, then the team starts to play well.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if you\u2019re changing every five minutes, you really, really make the players very insecure. They don\u2019t know where to go. And you can see that in these two games.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE TOTTENHAM COVERAGE ON F365<\/strong> Vega added: \u201cIf he doesn\u2019t control the dressing room, he can be as good as he wants, as nice as he is, but he hasn\u2019t got the balls.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see Frank as suitable for this because I don\u2019t think he has the balls. He hasn\u2019t got a character to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n Frank himself took plenty of positives from the defeat in Paris ahead of the visit of Fulham in the Premier League on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pleased with the performance. It was the reaction I wanted from the players, from the team,\u201d Frank insisted.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been working very hard on that, the players, the staff, me, to make sure that we responded well and bounced back because that\u2019s crucial after a bad performance.<\/p>\n \u201cToday I saw more identity of the team I want to create, we want to create.<\/p>\n \u201cMuch more character, personality, aggressiveness. Three words you need to have in any team no matter how you want to do, how you want to play, whatever formation, whatever. Today we saw it, that I\u2019m pleased with.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, I think it was a performance that was up there where we could get something out of the game, a draw or a win. So, that\u2019s a little frustrating thing that we conceded some goals.<\/p>\n \u201cBut something to build on. Strikers scoring two goals. The whole team, I think, all performed well.<\/p>\n \u201cArchie Gray, Lucas Bergvall, positive. When we played against a decent team where they have one Ballon d\u2019Or winner (Ousmane Dembele) and I think the next one is playing in midfield. Vitinha. 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