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Manager Thomas Frank

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Reporter: "So, Thomas...you're President of a country where there's extreme famine, a very bloody civil war, people are also dying of acute malaria and ebola, and you're being targeted for imminent assassination. What do you make of that?"

Frank: "Well, I think you need to look at all the positives."
 
Thomas Frank on Ruben Amorim being SACKED by Manchester United this morning: "We don't know what's happened behind the scenes, that's up to you guys as journalists following Man Utd closely."It could be something with the head coach, with the ownership, it can be misalignment; these are the most common reasons for a head coach getting sacked."It's another example from my point of view that it's very difficult to achieve sustainable success if you change key personnel in clubs, like the head coach and sporting directors."If you think you have the right ones and are aligned, you have to do it over a long time. Now it's two clubs with [coaches in the role for] one and a half years. I'm not judging it, it's just the facts in that sense. There could be many reasons for it, I don't know."

I think he speaks fairly here, not looking to dig at him or anything

Though reading it, I do find myself wondering how aligned things are between he and the club/hierachy

I mean as a fan I think its all shit 😄

Theres a complete lack of comment/action from the club so far

And Frank keeps telling us everythings on track
 
Dearie me, I see the Derangers have once again taken over the Frank thread to discuss their favourite obsession.

Thus it behooves me to remind them that when our Back 5 returned from injury and availability from March 2025 they DID NOT START ONCE in THE PREMIER LEAGUE for the rest of the league season. In fact Romero and VDV only started two games in the league together for the rest of the season despite being available for all of them.

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The Back 5 did start every single European game from March onwards (except the first where Spence deputised for Udogie). We did, of course, not lose a game in Europe and, in fact, went on to win our first trophy in 17 years and biggest trophy for 40 years.

Which is why they hate the fact we won that Trophy and try to diminish it every time they can because they are such miserable, misanthropic bastards that they have to piss on normal fans cornflakes as well as their own.

:angecup: it won't work lads. This is a huge part of our history. And the best thing to happen to Spurs in 40 years. Get over it.


Now, let's hope Frank can somehow get past Villa on Saturday, get some players in, get some players back and lead us to FA Cup glory. COYS!
 
Celtic also sacked their head of football operations, no doubt for overseeing their recruitment and the hiring of the manager, I hope I see a similar statement about Frank and Lange in the very near future.
 
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Seeing another manager sacking today and then realising it's not Frank
 
Matt1882 said:
I mean, he's lost 6 of 8 games.
Frank has lost 7.
Of 20.

I suspect Frank wouldn't have made it to 6 losses if they were that concentrated.
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Notabadsquad said:
It's different for sure but I think this does make it easier for the board if they wanted to act you would think.

But unless we were also content to move to a caretaker manager, it would be a move without an option unless that is being looked at.
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Celtic are also by far the biggest club in Scotland and absolutely expect to win the title every single year. Anything less is failing.
So the standards are higher and the failings far more obvious.


Spurs will probably go for Nancy now.
 
Harry Vaginola said:
this is what worries me. we don't know the full picture behind the scenes and how bad it possibly is. how competent are the lewis kids? we just don't know and it's definitely a possibility that they're utterly lost and the club is about to drop off a cliff. just on the surface, it looks like utter disarray from the top down.
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The best decision they could ever make for the club is to sell it. If they wanna stay involved a tad, fine...keep a wee share...but sell the vast majority and let someone else, someone better call the shots. No shame in that, I'd actually respect them for doing the honorable thing.

I'd love to have someone like Steve Pagliuca take over. Shame he's no longer best pals with the Grousbeck family after the Boston Celtics sale stuff, cause that tandem would sure take us places. But one or the other and we're golden. They're loaded, very demanding, know how to build a winning culture, know how to hire the best talent...besides I think Wyc Grousbeck is Jewish.

One can only dream.
 
BJK said:
Re: The part inadequate midfield personnel plays in lack of progressive passing

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Xhaka again, pulling a nice half turn and a pass to allow his team to break through. Sometimes that's the entire difference between getting out in transition versus the ball finding its way back to the keeper in no time.

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Meanwhile, that's how someone like Palhinha half turns

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Here, I discussed in detail why Porro was justified in not making that pass to Palhinha or Bentancur. Not going to go over that again.


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But it's illustrative in that you can see the kind of avenues that a progressive passer or two could open up for us.

This for example would've been a simple breakthrough, similar to Sunderland's above, with VDV bursting forward with the ball. Instead it's a long kick by Vicario.
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Checking over your shoulder, scanning the pitch every other second, positioning your body properly, controlling the ball on the turn...I learned that when I was 8 or 10 years old. We're talking about 25-30yo PL players who can't even do that.
 
nicoclaesen said:
Xhaka has awareness of what’s around him. He knows his next pass before he gets the ball. Ours don’t have a clue.
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You played the game at a good level, didn't you my mate? Can't recall if it's you who played in Luxembourg/Belgium etc for like 20 odd years.

But when did you learn that stuff? Probably like me, when you was with the juniors/u10s maximum?

Shocking how those mugs can't do the basics. Same with how so many of them can't even take a proper corner kick and beat the first man. Don't even get me started on throw ins.
 
Thomas Frank on Spurs sitting back at home to Sunderland:

“The first half was by far better than the second and even in the first half, it was not like we had 65 per cent (possession) or whatever. Sometimes it's not only about the possession. You like to dominate, but they went man-to-man, so there was a lot of open spaces to run into. For me, that's more the critical areas that we didn't manage to punish (them) from this game.
Second half, I felt we dropped off in our drop-off runs to open up and keep the ball. I think also, it’s not like we won five games in a row and everything is just free and smooth. So, when you're up 1-0 and you really badly want to win, that can be a little bit, maybe a little bit nervy. One thing is our name and our fantastic history, another reality is where we are right now.”

Genuinely can’t stand him anymore
 
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