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Thomas Frank - Former Head Coach

Sandman said:
I honestly thought he would work well at Spurs. he seemed to know his tactics very well. And I liked his honest demeanour. But he lost himself in our bad home form and then the injuries took their toll. he needed to be fired in Decemeber.

What I still cant fathom is why we hired Tudor. That was an utter shambles.
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Simple answer...cheap, cheap, cheap.
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
The reason he made no impression was all down to personality. The players had just come off a highly charismatic and inspirational coach in Ange. Frank was a personality free zone! Has there ever been a blander personality in football, I think not? This was always my biggest criticism of him; he just never had it in him to get our players going.
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It was more down to his negative football rather than anything to do with his personality
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
The reason he made no impression was all down to personality. The players had just come off a highly charismatic and inspirational coach in Ange. Frank was a personality free zone! Has there ever been a blander personality in football, I think not? This was always my biggest criticism of him; he just never had it in him to get our players going.
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As a new leader in any field, you have two options, get the current employees to buy into your vision or fire them all and replace.

In a football club, you won't really get the second option, Frank failed because he didn't get buy in (and his tactics were brick), his time at Spurs paints him as a very poor manager, regardless of his history, it will be interesting to see if he ever is able to do something at even lower PL level again.
 
Raziel said:
As a new leader in any field, you have two options, get the current employees to buy into your vision or fire them all and replace.

In a football club, you won't really get the second option, Frank failed because he didn't get buy in (and his tactics were brick), his time at Spurs paints him as a very poor manager, regardless of his history, it will be interesting to see if he ever is able to do something at even lower PL level again.
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And the improved success of his former employer shows that maybe… maybe… it wasn’t him but the club structure that worked
 
His failure goes to show that personality and man-management are just as important, if not more since the coaching staff can help out, than just being tactically astute.

The players’ personalities (egos) at a top club are different from those at lower size clubs, and the Coach/Manager has to be able to handle them.

Look at Alonso at RM for example.
 
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