Pre-match press conference with Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank and Xavi Simons ahead of Tottenham v Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.
Frank responds to speculation about his future and calls for unity, insisting the focus is on winning.
He says Spurs are severely limited for selection with only 11 first team outfield players available, confirms Xavi Simons will play through pain with a swollen ankle, and states João Palhinha is not available.
Frank also explains the difficult squad decision between Dominic Solanke and Mathys Tel, and reflects on recent narrow defeats, resilience, and the need for the fans to back the players from minute one.
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⏱ Timeline courtesy of Warrior J93
0:00 Intro
0:34 Communications after West Ham Game and what was said to Thomas Frank
1:15 Relationship with the Fans and belief results can win support back
4:25 Coping with this situation and handling pressure around his future
5:21 Winning the game for the manager and sticking together as a group
6:01 Dominic Solanke & Mathys Tel squad decision explained by Frank
7:10 Joao Palhinha Update and confirmation he is unavailable
7:26 Young Players and excitement around academy involvement
8:08 Struggles on winning home games from a player’s perspective
8:49 Turning the current situation around and reasons for recent form
11:14 Importance of fans knowing Frank is in early in his spell
13:30 Message to the Fans about how close Spurs are to improvement
14:06 Big moment to put a big performance against Dortmund
14:49 Mathys Tel and reaction to being left out of the squad
15:58 Tottenham’s environment compared to other elite clubs
16:47 Ready for the fight and showing resilience under pressure
18:56 Importance of Fans and the need for support on Champions League night
19:46 Future and conversations with the board about what comes next
20:42 Xavi Simons Ankle injury update and playing through pain
20:50 Fighting for the Manager and commitment from the players
21:29 Outro | Please like the video and subscribe!
#tottenham #spurs #thomasfrank | Thomas Frank Tottenham Hotspur Spurs press conference today
48 Comments
Frank at Brentford always had a proper CF and two proper wingers, players who knew how to attack and make runs, losing their defenders, Frank has had to use a no 10 as a right winger, a striker as a left winger and a striker who was bought in for the back up striker due to the main one being injured, the front 3 for Spurs has been the worse front 3 I have seen for a long time. Frank is dealing with the effects cause by last season.
Ange won a Trophy with half a squad.
TF -Laughing all the way to the bank.
Deluded
Unfortunately Thomas it's a two way street, give us the fan's something to get behind and in return you and the lads will in return get more than a 12th man, if you never saw the dross we we're given the last 2 seasons then I suggest doing a little homework, that's why you were appointed and that's the hostility from fan's both home and away
Where's the captain?
Wow Thomas has lost the plot if he thougth Dom done well enough to kick Tel out of the Champiosn league sqaud,
Everyone gave Tel a hard time when he first came.. Now he’s one of our most in form players in my opinion and Frank leaves him out? It’s hard to support this manager when we makes decisions like that. Who’s gonna play left wing then? Muani? Odobert? They’ve both been awful all season.
That female reporter what the f is she on about.
When that female reporter cane on I had to go wtf.
Frank is so unlucky.
Let's get behind the manager and the team.. we are always too quick to get rid of the manager .. to get to good times you have to go through the bad times..
this guy is afucking idiot
enic has contracts to cover bills for the next decade and will make money if spurs relegate, spurs aren't a club anymore, it's part of a venue with contracts with NFL, artists, events, etc at the heart of londong – that is how ENIC views this, 2 hr games that provide no profit compared to all other ventures, they will never sell, and they will rather be mid table or even in champsionship rather than deal with all of this, it's stability > money and a north london stadium in England is the most stable thing you can get
I Don't doubt Xavi, i feel sorry for Frank that we don't have main guys who know how to work with each other up front
I don’t trust Frank to turn it around, neither do the players as Xavi shows.
12:00 lady's Q 👊
Classy responses from a classy guy. Even though its not working, I have total respect for the man.
If we won the games we could have won then we would win the league, utter BS.
So Thomas gets the trust from the board, but bloke who won them europa and gets into CL doesn't even get the start of next season to assess. Useless board.
Come on boys. COYS
19:40 the players are definitely running hard, always support them.
A little bit up and down hah
i am betting for them to lose, thats how much confidence this Tottenham Fan as man and boy has.. why? Because i am a realist with the facts, and they are not looking good
How he still doing press conferences, similar people to him in charge at club now no backbone weak fucks, like Lange levy would of got rid of him straight after westham game well about a month ago
Tel must be looking for the exit. Disastrous spell at Spurs and treated very poorly.
@12:20 who let his wife into the press conference??
Surely all these managers at spurs can’t be wrong, the players need to stand up and play for the shirt and give everything
He's deluded if he thinks things are going the right way WTF
We have a delusional thunder bird as manager
OMG another word salad designed to keep his job – last 7 games in the right direction??
Should have dropped Wilson not Tel
"Football is very simple but also complex …" and he gets stuck in the middle somewhere! But 1 out 5 fans support him and he feels the knife I mean trust from the board.
We love the Spurs & Frank!! My 10 year old, wife and I coming from Halifax, Canada just to watch the boys! We'll always support no matter what! Were counting the days to March 4th!!!
0:00 Intro
0:34 Communications after West Ham Game
1:15 Relationship with the Fans
4:25 Coping with this situation
5:21 Winning the game for the manager
6:01 Dominic Solanke & Mathys Tel
7:10 Joao Palhinha Update
7:26 Young Players
8:08 Struggles on winning home games
8:49 Turning the current situation around
11:14 Importance of fans knowing Frank is in early in his spell
13:30 Message to the Fans
14:06 Big moment to put a big performance against Dortmund
14:49 Mathys Tel
15:58 Tottenham’s environment
16:47 Ready for the fight
18:56 Importance of Fans
19:46 Future
20:42 Xavi Simons Ankle
20:50 Fighting for the Manager
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Outro
Yapper. Not sure why no one asks him any hard questions….
Who asked this bumm to sell Brennan when he gives us a home grown quota + when there is no other winger available (other than Odebert)
Why would you not register Tel when Solanka cant even play 90.
#VinaiOut #FrankOut
I don’t understand why would he drop tel for solanke. Why not drop mauni who has been next to useless for solanke tel has been our best attacking threat last 3 games
Who's Nick that he spoke off in the beginning?
So out of his depth and out of tune, looks so unbothered, smiling when he should be ice-faced with the current circumstances.
He will predictably push Solanke to play more than 70 minutes so that he won't be forced to play Scarlett, the guy is desperate hence why he dropped Tel and officially killed his last bond with him, who now must despise him for freezing him out of 2 squads… also if Dom gets injured Frank and the medical team need to fuck off tomorrow night, gross levels of incompetent cannot be accepted and overlooked at a club of our stature.
Thomas is just too kind and innocent for Tottenham, to realize the severity of the situation, he still has the Brentford mentality engrained into him, his expectations subconsciously are mid-table as been adopted for Brentford during the last 5 years he's managed them.
FreeTel
We need to get behind TF. We cannot keep up this merry go round. Terrible list of injuries. Every manager is as good as his last match. As fans we need to support these players. But also we need to see 100% effort from every player. All players defending, all players attacking.
10:08 they come out and respond like that because they stop submitting to your cowardly tactics, everything he says after that is just excuse making coming from a manager without winning experience…
Though I believe we'll draw tomorrow, solely down to our home form in European competitions, unbeaten in over 30 games, Dortmund is a different story only have lost 3 games in total this season, 2 in the UCL and 1 in the Bundesliga vs Leverkusen!
13:38 – you'd never hear these sentences being uttered by an elite manager like Conte, we got dominated in all those 3 games, yet he makes it sound like we were the better team, when we weren't constantly giving away easy goals and not defending outside box, low xG bs, the danes in Lange and Frank are stat men… you hear him defining hard work by if the players run, he wants 11 road runners as he had at Brentford, less technical football, just systemic robotism, no free-flowing flair!
16:28 – straight out calling out he was frustrated with playing at LW during his start under Frank, Xavi knows he won't be able to reach his full potential under Frank's football at Spurs, we need someone of a higher calibre with player experience.
17:08 – look at Xavi trying not to crack up laughing his ass to that ridiculous question 🤣
Ange won a European cup with injuries!!!! Frank saying the same thing over and over again ! He is clueless .
Feel bad for Frank. Levy didn’t back him in the summer and now the clown owners are doing the same. They are getting away with it again. They are criminals and they should get the hell out of our club.
Keep doing the same thing are you having a laugh !!
I think it's good that Frank mentioned Bowen's foul and compared it to the red card Xavi received when we were playing against Liverpool. I would have also brought up the foul in the penalty area in the 83rd minute that went unpunished; instead, VAR just pretented to be investigating a „handball“?. Furthermore, every advantage play was called back, as if they wanted to sabotage every one of our counter-attacks. Not only do we have a long list of players to manage, but the referees also seem to be calling against us, for whatever reason. We know how corrupt the game is, not just since yesterdays AFCON finals or Leicesters championship.
The cat is too soft imo …
He's on drugs, or should be. Living in cloud cuckoo land.
He's gna get battered by dortmund