Tottenham Hotspur are on the search for a new head coach after the sacking of Thomas Frank
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Tottenham Hotspur sacked Thomas Frank as head coach on Wednesday morning, with the club sat in 16th place in the Premier League and edging towards an unwanted relegation battle.
Spurs have won just twice at home in the league all season and saw a distinctly better record in the Champions League under Frank, where they qualified for the top eight of the league phase to pass automatically through to the last 16. The final straw for the Dane was a 2-1 home defeat to Newcastle United on Tuesday night, where boos rung around Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at full-time.
Early managerial candidates have begun to emerge for the vacant Spurs role, with one manager recently becoming available on the continent – though he is believed to be keen on a move to one of Spurs’ Premier League rivals.
De Zerbi to Tottenham as ‘timing could align’ despite Man Utd links
According to reports by TEAMtalk, Roberto De Zerbi ‘has admirers’ at Tottenham and the ‘timing could align’ for the former Brighton & Hove Albion boss to take over at Spurs after he was recently dismissed at Marseille.
While his preference was believed to have been to wait for the Manchester United job, that position will not be available until the end of the season and even then, a lot could depend on how Michael Carrick does over the remainder of the season. Reporting continues that De Zerbi could be ‘open’ to managing Spurs.
Amidst the belief that De Zerbi could ‘burst into contention’ to become the next Spurs boss, that could indicate that the north London outfit might not wait until the end of the season to re-appoint former boss Mauricio Pochettino, currently in charge of the USA national team ahead of their home World Cup. Short-term options such as Robbie Keane and Harry Redknapp have also been touted to steady the ship and avoid the drop.
Should De Zerbi be given the reigns at Tottenham, TEAMtalk call out for three early signings he should make as Spurs boss – in the shape of Brighton star Kaoru Mitoma, Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones and Juventus marksman Dusan Vlahovic.