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  1. DubaiSpur

    Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

    The problem is always that these appointments from smaller clubs are viewed in an idealistic sense, with the manager given time, money, and full support from fans and players to bring over whatever worked for them at their smaller clubs. We don't work that way. We almost never have. Any...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Think it's a question of sequencing mate. Most coaches, I think, do both, but it's the order they do it in that defines them. We've tended to do better as a club with idealists who first prioritize imposing our own style, over adapting to others. But that doesn't mean they don't do the latter...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    He leaves a bit of a nonentity - he didn't deserve the personalized hate he got, but I don't think he deserved any adulation either, because he simply didn't earn it. He was just a largely featureless, mediocre coach in a tracksuit. One you could have swapped out with any old bloke in top-level...
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    ENIC

    This has been a constant with the club for about three decades - since before ENIC, with Scholar and Sugar, but ENIC certainly carried on with it. There's a terminal lack of emotional intelligence at the club, and a preference for the sort of lifeless corporate-speak that inspires no one and...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    Levy. He also hired Arnesen, whom Chelsea poached from us in 2004, and was in general a pioneer at bringing the DoF model to the Premier League. And in his early years, had a knack for appointing the right data-driven people in backroom positions (although not coaches). None of this is new...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    The bargain bin. Note that no one of note was after Lange or Hitchen, except us. Whereas the sporting directors we had a decade ago (Edwards, Mitchell, etc.) all had long stints of being chased by big clubs across Europe. That was even true of Comolli.
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    For sure mate - Frank talking about Semenyo in January was astounding to me in that respect. You're telling me Johan Lange's data-driven analysis identified as a target, one of the Premier League's most sought-after wingers, who was already locked into a move to City? And then when that fell...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    As I got told many times when I was criticising the man - that's just speculation, mate. What we know is, he sacked Ange, hired Frank, gave it large on club media (and to Gary Neville, iirc?) about hiring Frank and how it aligned with our ambitions and values, etc. It was very much his decision...
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    OMT Spurs vs Geordies 7.30 Tuesday 10th Feb

    Might not be a recall clause in his loan. Same with Vuskovic. We could say fudge that and negotiate a recall anyway, but then a) who would trust us to loan them a player in future? And b) why would Moore/Vuskovic trust us to manage their development? Think with the Jan business, the club gambled...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    He did hire him mate. He had a statement on the website on it. He gave interviews about sacking Ange and hiring Frank. It was his call, as far as we know - as was hiring Lange. Now, you could argue things went on in the backrooms and he wasn't actually in charge any more, but that's...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I didn't dislike Levy, the man. I did dislike Levy, the utterly mediocre chairman, and at times I let that get the better of me. I'm not proud of it, and I think I'm in a better place now. As for what Levy would have done, no way to know that. What we do know is - he hired Frank. And Lange. So...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I think we're still okay on set-pieces, personally. The only one of the current coaching staff I'd hang on to is Andreas Gregson, because something he's doing is working in the sense that we routinely get goals from corners. Re: Ange, that's fair mate. Ultimately the reason I think he...
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    Johan Lange - Sporting Director

    When Frank goes, serious consideration has to be given to tossing Lange, too. Frank's appointment seems deeply connected to Lange's influence, especially given the two worked closely together early in their careers. I also suspect the patience the club has for him stems in part from Lange...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Agreed. It doesn't help, and whatever flaws Frank has as a mediocre coach, he's still human. The visceral dislike for him personally that so many have saddens me, because the man himself is inoffensive almost to a fault. There is basically nothing about him, good or bad. He's an empty...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    I'd have him back tomorrow. To be fair, I would have had him back the day after he left - I never, ever wanted him to go, because he understood us the way no other coach did until Ange. I think he's probably one of the only people who could turn the mood of the club around in an instant - fans...
  16. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    100%. I'm steadfast in the belief that Frank isn't a terrible coach. Now, he isn't great, either. He's simply deeply mediocre, by Premier League standards. And faced with an injury crisis that would strain even a top coach, he buckled and proved he couldn't hack it. It's okay - men have limits...
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Think he's gone. He never really had a fair shot, but then, he never really convinced anyone to give him one either. He'll leave a bit of a nonentity, all things considered. Behind Frank, the injuries and the atrocious squad lies a simple fact - this club got itself into this situation because...
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    Cristian Romero

    Screenshot on Reddit. Calls it unbelievable and disgraceful that we only had eleven players available yesterday. Given he posted it straight after the window closed, probable he's referring to the board. Perhaps he was promised more than Gallagher and Souza coming in?
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    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Oh, for sure mate. Fundamentally, this squad is a Frankenstein's mess of mediocrity and false dawns, assembled because no one higher up understands the idea that trying to cheap out on something generally means you pay more money down the line for worse outcomes. For years we've seen a steady...
  20. DubaiSpur

    Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

    Fair enough mate, but I'd say you're in the minority. My take is that most football fans don't think like you do - likewise for most voters, tbh.
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