Thomas Frank’s future: Tottenham board hold head coach talks with Dane under growing pressure to keep job | Football news

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Thomas Frank's future: Tottenham board hold head coach talks with Dane under growing pressure to keep job | Football news

Tottenham manager Thomas Frank is under increasing pressure to keep his job.

Discussions are believed to have taken place at board level over whether Frank should continue after Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat by West Ham.

Spurs officials are believed to be looking at all options at the moment – but no final decision has been made yet.

The Spurs board want to stick to a long-term plan involving Frank, who has always been the plan, but Saturday’s defeat reached new levels of toxicity at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

There are reports of fans clashing outside the stadium, and a video of a fan talking to his owner Vivienne Lewis in the hospitality section and expressing their feelings about Frank’s future appeared on social media.

Unlike most managers who have lost their jobs this season, Frank has tried to remain positive, acknowledging that this has been a difficult time for the club.

He described it as trying to turn a “super-tank” and it’s starting to go down the road. But that was not reflected in Saturday’s result at relegation rivals West Ham, who ended a 10-game league run without a win.

Not all charges can be laid against Frank. The club is in transition following the post-Daniel Levy era with new captains steering the ship and new staff still finding their feet in many areas.

Either way, though, this feels like an important moment for Tottenham and they will be carefully considering their next steps ahead of their Champions League home game against Borussia Dortmund.

How Sky Sports reports on Tottenham fans’ response to Frank

Sky Sports’ Oliver Yew at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium:

After West Ham scored a late goal: “The home fans are chanting ‘they’re fired in the morning’ towards Thomas Frank, those who are left in their seats. There’s a huge crowd out of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as West Ham fans celebrate.”

Full time: “The boos die down before the restart. The fans coming out of the press box express their feelings.

“Frank then went straight to the tunnel, walking clapping his hands. He booed again and there was another chant of ‘fired in the morning.’