With each passing match, Tottenham Hotspur supporters grow increasingly disgruntled with Thomas Frank, whose slow starts and constant snubbing of top young talents has worn thin, along with his cowardly tactics and the results that continue to drop Spurs further and further down the bottom half of the Premier League table.
Despite making big splashes in the summer between Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons, Spurs are materially no better than they were in the Premier League last season under Ange Postecoglou, and with the FA Cup and League Cup both off the table and the Champions League an obvious no go, they won't even have a trophy to offset their lack of success in the league.
Frank has disappointed Spurs supporters profoundly, because they came into the season thinking he would be an upgrade on Postecoglou, based on what he was achieving at Brentford. Instead, he has been a disaster, and Spurs fans are already done with him, dreaming of a replacement who will actually win games and not try to throw fans under the bus for his own failures.
Tottenham fans might as well dream on
Well, the ultimate dream managerial target has suddenly become available for Spurs and the other clubs with vacancies, as Real Madrid swiftly fired Xabi Alonso after a devastating Supercup Final loss to rivals Barcelona. Many of Real's stars were difficult to work with and wanted Alonso fired from the jump, so the architect of Bayer Leverkusen's undefeated 2023/24 season was pretty much doomed to begin with.
According to transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, despite his firing and all the events and drama that transpired in Madrid, Alonso's reputation in world football has not taken a hit. Per Fab, he has not "lost his appeal" among clubs in need of a manager, and he is "highly rated in the industry" as a whole. He is prepared to "return soon" to the dugout, as Romano states that top clubs are monitoring his interest and availability.
It sounds like, based on what Romano is reporting, that Xabi Alonso does not want to waste much time away from the game and is ready to immediately bounce back to a new challenge. Given what happened at Real Madrid with all the egos at a big club, Alonso may want a challenge of bringing a club with status that has fallen where he will have less pressure and more young talents willing to work hard for him.
Tottenham really do sound like a good fit for that. The club has a high profile, great young players, a lot to prove, nowhere to go but up, and people who will love his positive ideas and ambitious tactics more than some of the lazier ego driven players in Madrid who were set in their ways. Alonso is a very real possibility on the table for Tottenham, and while Spurs fans know better than to get their hopes up, if you want a pipe dream, this is the stuff worth taking a hit of.