Frank sack update with ‘talks scheduled before Arsenal’ as Tottenham boss sends message to board
Joe Williams Time is up for Thomas Frank
Tottenham have reportedly scheduled crunch talks before the North London Derby as head coach Thomas Frank tells the board not to lose their heads and sack him.
Spurs lost for the 11th time this season on Tuesday night as Newcastle United beat them 2-1 in a largely dominant display from the Magpies in north London.
Tottenham‘s winless run in the Premier League has now been extended to eight with Spurs 16th in the tableand in genuine relegation trouble if they keep losing.
Frank’s side have just one win in 11 ahead of their biggest game of the season against Arsenal in 11 days time, which they won’t be expected to win.
And now our friends at TEAMtalkhave claimed that Tottenham sources ‘have refused to rule out’ Frank being sacked after their defeat to Newcastle.
A source told the website: “Things are not good, it was toxic tonight. The club do not want to make the change, they really don’t, but you can’t rule it out at this point.”
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It is understood that ‘talks are scheduled?before the derby with Arsenal’ and Frank’s sacking ‘cannot be ruled out’, although TEAMtalkstressed that it is unlikely at this stage.
There were more chants of “sacked in the morning” coming down from the stands against Newcastle with the Tottenham players booed off at the end.
But Frank isn’t fearing the sack, he told reporters:?“I’m convinced I will be [in the dugout against Arsenal].
“I understand the question, and I understand it’s easy to point on me, but I also think it’s never only the head coach or the ownership or the directors or the players or the staff. It’s everyone.
“If you do something right, you build something that can last. Of course, we are not in a top position now. Everyone knows – directors, ownership, and me – what position we are in, what we need to improve and what we need to do better. That is what we are working very hard on.”
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Frank added:?“I am also 1000% sure that I never expected us to be in a situation like this, with 11 or 12 injuries on the back end of this and what we’ve been facing.
“But I know when you need to build something and need to get through things, you need to show unbelievable strong resilience.
“I think it is fair to say there are a few before me up here, not only for Tottenham but in many other clubs, that have lost their head many times.
“You need to have a calm head, carry on, keep fighting and keep doing the right thing, make sure we stick together because we can only do this if we stick together.
“That is the board, that is the leaders, that is the players, that is the staff, that is me and that is the fans. We’ve got to get through this.”
The Tottenham boss continued:?“We are in a position we don’t want to be in, and we are working very hard day and night to change.
“I also think it is a situation [with injuries] now the club has been in for almost two years, and at the end of last season as well. Clearly it’s a pattern that we struggle to manage Europe and the Premier League.
“It’s something me, the team, the club, the players, we need to learn to do even better physically and mentally to deal with that.
“And part of that, of course, is the 11 injuries or 10 plus a suspension plus another one today [with Wilson Odobert], which of course doesn’t help in a situation like that.
“The injuries need to be massively taken into consideration. I haven’t really said it too much, but everyone can see the impact of things.”
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