Tottenham Hotspur's defeat to Newcastle United on Tuesday night was the final straw at a club where there is no sense of shame when it comes to dismissing another manager
12:44, 11 Feb 2026
Thomas Frank has left Spurs after just eight months
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Thomas Frank has left Spurs after just eight months
Tottenham Hotspur's obsession with being able to rinse and repeat is one of the most predictable failings in football.
You know the drill. Appoint a manager with potential, fail to back him in the transfer market, then sack him when results are not good enough. Which has ended in the latest episode of the soap opera called 'Spurs', seeing Thomas Frank dismissed after just eight months in charge.
In a statement offering no sense of shame, Tottenham said: "Thomas was appointed in June 2025, and we have been determined to give him the time and support needed to build for the future together." If eight months represents the sub total of Tottenham's backing, on the back of failing to respond to a squad being ravaged with injuries following a demanding winter period, then heaven help the next manager through the revolving door.
Tottenham are winless in their last eight Premier League games
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Tottenham are winless in their last eight Premier League games(Image: Getty Images)
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All suffering supporters can can do is live in the hope the club's owners have a solution to the problem they have now created. Good luck with that, though.
Those said supporters continue to rile and protest against the people in power at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Their beefs include the club lacking an identity and ambition.
Something proved when Tottenham missed out to Manchester City on signing Antoine Semenyo in last month's transfer window. The same can be said of Eberechi Eze last summer, when Arsenal, of all people, stole in to sign the England winger ahead of their bitter rivals.
Thomas Frank's time at Tottenham was short-lived
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Thomas Frank's time at Tottenham was short-lived(Image: Getty Images)
Frank has to take his share of the blame, it has to be said. He backed himself to make the step up from Brentford, but has been found wanting. Despite problems with injuries and lack of genuine quality, Tottenham have not won a league game in 2026 and now find themselves in a relegation scrap.
The club's moto is 'To Dare Is To Do', but all Frank appeared to do was stand in his technical area and hope for the best.
The divide between him and the fan base left Tottenham with little choice but to get rid of a likeable man, but limited manager at the level the club wants to be operating at.
Thomas Frank couldn't replicate his success at Brentford when he made the move across London
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Thomas Frank couldn't replicate his success at Brentford when he made the move across London(Image: EMPICS Sport)
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But there is blame on both sides. The club's recruitment has left them without significant leaders both on and off the pitch.
While the bloke chosen to be captain has such a disregard for his club, that all he does it slag it off. Cristian Romero has become a complete liability both on and off the field.
It all led to a furious storm of toxicity in north London.
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Frank inherited a mediocre squad - and the notion this problem could be fixed in a matter of months was laughable. So the powerbrokers took the predictable decision of hanging Frank out to dry. Yet Tottenham need a wholesale change in culture, not just a change in manager.
Tottenham had no choice but to sack Frank. But the club's next one will be defining.
Because whoever takes the reins will have to prepare for a first league game against, you guessed it, league leaders Arsenal. And all we can do is wish that man luck.
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Not just for that game - but whatever lies in store in the future at a place where the tragic roundabout never stops spinning.