Tottenham Hotspur have dismissed head coach Thomas Frank after just eight months in charge, with the 52-year-old Dane leaving the club 14th in the Premier League and only five points clear of the relegation places following a dire sequence of two wins in 17 league matches.
Tottenham confirmed Frank’s departure on Wednesday after an alarming collapse in domestic form that has seen Spurs go winless in their last eight league games and slide towards the bottom three. A 2-1 home defeat to Newcastle United on Tuesday proved the final straw, as furious supporters booed the team off and chanted for change amid growing fears of an unexpected relegation battle.
Frank was appointed on a three-year deal in June to replace Ange Postecoglou, inheriting a side that had finished 17th last season but secured an unlikely Champions League return by winning the Europa League. Although he guided Spurs into the Champions League knockout stages, he failed to generate sustained improvement in the league, overseeing a run in which Tottenham mustered just two victories from 17 top-flight fixtures and slipped to 14th, five points above the drop zone.
Supporters had turned decisively against Frank in recent weeks, with frustration fuelled by a lack of intensity, brittle defending and tame attacking displays that contrasted sharply with the club’s traditional front-foot identity. Boos greeted full-time whistles at recent home games, and calls for the board to act intensified after the defeat to Newcastle, when chants of “sacked in the morning” rang around the stadium as Spurs’ winless streak stretched to eight in the league.
Tottenham are now working through multiple contingency plans as they look to move quickly for a replacement, with the hierarchy acutely aware of the need to stabilise the team before they are dragged deeper into the relegation scrap. An interim solution has not been ruled out while the club explores longer-term candidates, but the priority is to arrest the club’s slide and preserve their Premier League status in a season that began with Champions League ambitions and has descended into a fight for survival.
