Thomas Frank sends sack message to Tottenham board: 'Don't lose your heads' | OneFootball

Under-fire boss points to the past in a bid to save his future

Thomas Frank has implored his Tottenham boos to lose their heads and sack him after falling to within five points of the Premier League relegation zone following their 2-1 defeat at home to Newcastle.

The pressure is mounting on Frank after Jacob Ramsey’s second-half strike extended their winless run in the league to eight games.

Spurs now sit 16th in the Premier League table, having won just two of their last 17 league games, and there were deafening boos from the home crowd at the full-time whistle.

Chants of “sacked in the morning“ could also be heard on a miserable evening for Spurs, but Frank maintains he has the backing of the board and is convinced he will be in charge for the north London derby in 12 days.

“I’m convinced I will be [in the dugout against Arsenal],” he told reporters.

There are a few before me up here that have lost their head many times

Thomas Frank

“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.”

Despite the pressure on his job, Frank added that he was “1000 per cent sure” he was the man to lead the club forward.

He continued: “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.”

Thomas Frank

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Supporters, who could again be heard chanting for former manager Mauricio Pochettino, appear to have made up their mind on Frank after another dismal performance.

However, when asked whether fan chants were affecting him, Frank said he understood their frustrations and pointed to the club’s mounting injuries.

“We are in a position we don’t want to be in, and we are working very hard day and night to change,” he said.

“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.”