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Frank expects more clarity over Spurs plans following Levy's exit

West Ham host Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League’s late kick off today with the aim of improving their standing in the top flight table.

A rocky start to the season saw Graham Potter’s side lose their opening two matches, against Sunderland and Chelsea, to an aggregate scoreline of 8-1 before they picked up a much-needed victory in a 3-0 hammering of Nottingham Forest before the international break.

Potter’s men were given the confidence boost they needed to jump out of the relegation zone but face a solid outfit in Thomas Frank’s Spurs who begin life after Daniel Levy following the chairman’s exit from the club.

Tottenham won their opening two games, including a 2-0 victory over Man City, but slipped to a 1-0 loss to Bournemouth last time out and Frank will hope to get back to winning ways as he drives his team closer to the top of the table.

Leading from the front

Jarrod Bowen has had a hand in nine Premier League goals in his last nine appearances (6 goals, 3 assists).

Since his first appearance under Graham Potter in early February, only Mohamed Salah (15) has scored and assisted more goals than Bowen (13) in the Premier League.

(Mike Egerton/PA Wire)

Mike Jones13 September 2025 17:15

Two wins from two?

Following a 2-0 win away at Man City, Thomas Frank is looking to become just the third Spurs manager to win his first two away top-flight matches in charge of the club, along with Ossie Ardiles in 1993-94 and Tim Sherwood in 2013-14.

Mike Jones13 September 2025 17:10

Daniel Levy’s departure has not impacted my role at Tottenham, Thomas Frank says

Thomas Frank says it is “business as usual” at Tottenham after Daniel Levy’s surprise exit, but can already feel the backing of the club’s majority owners.

Levy was invited to step down from his role as Spurs chairman last Thursday in an unexpected move by ENIC, which is owned and run by the Lewis family trust.

Majority shareholders ENIC had largely allowed Levy to be the key decision-maker and figurehead of the Premier League club since 2001, but the Lewis family has moved on the 63-year-old in an attempt to deliver “more wins, more often” at Tottenham.

Daniel Levy’s departure has not impacted my role at Tottenham, Thomas Frank says

Even though Frank did not expect Levy to leave, he says it’s very much ‘business as usual’

Mike Jones13 September 2025 17:00

The costly mistake behind Daniel Levy’s fall at Tottenham Hotspur

In an email to Tottenham Hotspur staff, where new chief executive Vinai Venkatesham acknowledged that Daniel Levy’s departure would come as “a shock to all of you”, while insisting that “it is very much business as usual”. Such sentiments were undercut by the very fact that some people were stopped in their tracks, as well as the messages from elsewhere in the club.

Spurs, it has been insisted, will no longer be so much about business. They’re going to be about “sustained sporting success”.