Spurs news: Thomas Frank responds to job scrutiny as pressure mounts amid poor form | OneFootball

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The younger generations of the Lewis family, the club's majority shareholder, have become more active this year at Spurs and have been regular attendees of matches.

It is understood that they intend to leave football decisions to the new boardroom structure they have put in place, led by Vinai Venkatesham, but that could be tested if results do not pick up.

Spurs travel to face Newcastle on Tuesday night and at his press conference ahead of that match, Frank was bullish when asked whether the club's owners would be patient with him.

"Yeah, I'm very confident," he said.

"I think the ownership - of course I'm just starting to know them, but it seems like they're good guys, intelligent people - know how to run businesses and learning about football, learning more now they've become owners.

Spurs’ owners have been present at more matches this season

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"I think when we're dealing with intelligent people, they can see every successful dynasty, every successful club has taken time.

"Yeah you have one where you maybe win one year or the second year, but you can't sustain it if you don't build something sustainable. Impossible."

Slow starts at a new club are nothing new for Frank. At Brondby he did not win any of his first eight matches in charge, while there were eight defeats in ten at the start of his Brentford tenure.

Spurs started well under Frank, winning their first two matches of the Premier League season including away at Manchester City, but that form has now fallen away.

Frank again insisted he will build Spurs into a successful club, but admitted he was unsure why players have regularly been slow to adapt to his methods.

"Good question," Frank said. "At least I started a little bit better here in the first eight or ten games than I did at the two other clubs, which is probably good.

"There can be different reasons for that. When I took over in Brondby, it was a completely new start. The club was close to getting relegated the year before even though it was a big club and bankrupt, so we started more or less from scratch.

"That was built into it. I think we didn't win in eight then we were unbeaten in nine.

"Brentford the same. We lost eight out of ten then we were unbeaten in ten. Now it's a little bit the other way round.

"I just know that I build consistency and I build competitiveness and culture and that will always take a bit of time. The big thing here we want to build it, why we want to compete every single week, three times a week or two times a week depending on how you see it."