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Thomas Frank is fighting to keep his job after yet another Tottenham defeat.
Thomas Frank has made a plea to the Tottenham board and fans to keep his job after seeing his team lose again on Tuesday night. Spurs were beaten 2-1 at home by Newcastle United, and they are now only five points off the bottom three.
The pressure on Frank could not be greater at this stage, and it feels as though the situation is about to come to a head. Spurs have shown patience, and they may want to continue to show more, but with the relegation zone getting closer, and with form still yet to improve consistently, they may be forced into a decision.
As Frank and many of the players will tell you, the board have a fair share of the blame in this situation, with the Spurs chiefs having put together a rather awful winter transfer window.
Tottenham did sign Conor Gallagher, but they sold Brennan Johnson, and even in the wake of injuries aplenty, they failed to add any attackers, leaving Frank’s squad bare. Spurs seem to be going around in circles currently, and there has been frustration aplenty from fans.
After Tuesday night’s defeat to Newcastle, Tottenham were bood off the pitch, and Frank was the subject of many of the boos. Asked after the game if he still believes he is the right man for the job, Frank made his 159-word case.
"1,000 per cent sure,” he said. “I am also 1,000 per cent 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 and I think 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 only get through this together."
Asked if he knows that the board will be left with few options if the club continue to sink towards the relegation zone, he responded: “I understand the mechanism in football, no doubt about that but there are a lot of studies that it is not the right thing to do.
“I know it's the only movement they have, but there's also plenty of situations where it's not the right thing to do. The only thing I'll focus on is fighting, doing the right thing together with everyone else."
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