The Thomas Frank era has begun at Tottenham Hotspur with the new head coach meeting plenty of people behind of the scenes at the club.
The Dane, who replaced Ange Postecoglou this month, was at the club's Hotspur Way training complex from Tuesday after his post-season holidays and began meeting various people around Spurs. On Wednesday evening, Tottenham put out the first interview with Frank in which he outlined his plans for the club and spoke about various topics.
There was plenty to glean from the nine-minute interview which went up on the club's website and YouTube channel and was clipped up across their social media accounts.
Here are five things we took away from Frank's first address to the Spurs fans and the public in general.
Great communicator
This is no surprise. We expected that when we eventually heard from the new Spurs head coach it would be an interview that would tick all the boxes. Frank was honest about the ups and downs that are to come but also promised the kind of football the supporters will want to see. Postecoglou could always get his message across and Frank will have no trouble in doing the same to either his players or the supporters.
"The intention is to play aggressive front-footed football and I know the ethos and the history of the club is massive on attacking football, and I think there's so much attacking talent in the squad. I'm very excited about that," he said.
"They've clearly shown over the last two seasons that the ability to score goals is fantastic, and I'm very, very in on that. I love a team that is scoring goals, very, very big on principles. What we do on the final third, in terms of creating chances, and putting balls in the box, playing in behind and stuff like that, I think it's key. So just want to build on that attacking football, we already have here in the club."
Frank has already made a positive impression on staff within Hotspur Way in the time he's had at the Enfield training ground so far. He has a warm and inquisitive personality and has been looking to understand how it all works there and what everyone he meets in the building does as any new manager would.
With 800 people working within the club the 51-year-old might not get around to everyone but he needs to help build the same kind of togetherness he had at Brentford but on a larger scale.
Players met
The Dane has already met at least a couple of Tottenham players as on Tuesday he took a trip into the club gym and found some of the players going through rehabilitation on long-term injuries.
The Spurs vice-captain James Maddison and defender Radu Dragusin were both shown meeting their new head coach, calling him 'gaffer' as expected, and Frank was shown asking how the England midfielder was getting on.
"Yeah [working hard]. Had a little break with the family. Had a nice check-up with the specialist yesterday," he said.
Frank then asked if everything was ok to which Maddison replied: "Yeah, yeah. It was good. Positive to be fair. All about schedule stuff."
You would imagine someone like Maddison, as a vice-captain of the team, might have had a longer chat with his new boss at some point this week.
Spurs' other long-term injury absence, Dejan Kulusevski, appears to be on his honeymoon after marrying his partner Eldina, but will meet his fellow Scandinavian in the near future.
Son and those not mentioned
Much will be made of the fact that when Frank steered the interview towards talented senior players he liked in the Tottenham squad he did not mention the club's captain and most famous player Son Heung-min.
"When I say talented, it's not only the young players, it's also some of the more experienced players. How can we get the best out of them. Let's say Dominic Solanke, a big fan of him, in terms of his abilities. I'm sure we'll make him score a lot of goals," said the new head coach.
"How can we play with Bentancur, you know, Maddison, how can we get that, but of course the younger ones as well. I think it's all players that we need to develop and make perform on the highest level. But of course Bergvall, Archie Gray, Odobert, Udogie, all of them, I think have a high ceiling. There's others I haven't mentioned, it's the whole squad and I'm looking forward to it."
There of course could have been parts of the interview that did not make it into the final edit, but it would seem unlikely to chop out any mention of Son, especially ahead of this summer's lucrative tour to Hong Kong and the skipper's homeland of South Korea.
It could also be pointed out that the likes of Cristian Romero, Kulusevski, Micky van de Ven, Guglielmo Vicario, Pedro Porro and Yves Bissouma were among those senior players not mentioned as well, but with Son he's just too big a name. With just 12 months left on his contract and the captain believed to be open to a move this summer, perhaps Frank was wary of speaking about someone whose future is in doubt being a key component only to lose him later this summer as Postecoglou found with Kane. The Dane will be asked plenty about Son in the weeks ahead anyway, especially when Spurs get to Korea.
It's also worth noting that Frank spoke about trying to find a place in his team for Bentancur, who also has a year left on his deal. That would suggest a new contract could well be incoming as expected for the Uruguayan.
The hierarchy
New Tottenham CEO Vinai Venkatesham has been shown giving Frank a tour around the training ground, a relative newcomer himself, and the incoming head coach spoke about his dealings with the former Arsenal man, chairman Daniel Levy and technical director Johan Lange, who he knows well from working together years ago in Denmark.
"They've done a very, very good process. I would say Daniel Levy and Vinai and Johan Lange. I've had very good conversations and meetings with them, where we discussed everything in depth, details about club structure, processes, and of course I came with my view on things and how I saw it and my ideas and the way I want to do things and how I try to build a team and the club, and of course it's not, it's not just me," he said.
"I think it's very important to say, yes, the head coach is an important person, but if I don't have good people around me, it's impossible. You can't do anything alone in my opinion. If you want to do something quick, you can go alone, if you want to do something big or achieve something big, you go together. So it's definitely a thing about doing things together. Me, staff and players.
"I think the alignment is key from top to bottom, and of course it starts from Daniel and Vinai and Johan and me, and the more the four of us can be aligned, just like a unit and like unbreakable unit, the stronger we will be, and there will be ups and downs. I think right now it's a fairy tale. Everyone is happy. The sun is shining. It's fantastic, but we haven't played one game yet.
"Hopefully we win a lot. We'll work very hard every single day to make sure we create as many magic moments for the fans, and put them together and hopefully at the end of the season there will be a very good season, but the alignment in terms of structure, processes, transfers, squad, playing style, culture, all that is is key."
Venkatesham adds a new layer in between the manager and the chairman, which could be a positive thing for Frank, as will his long-standing relationship with Lange. With the average shelf life for Spurs managers being between 18 months and two years, the new man will need all the help he can get to beat that average with strong connections above.
Classy touch
With the kind of person Frank is, there was always likely to be a mention of Postecoglou's work and if you're replacing someone who has just won the club's first trophy in 17 years, it would be difficult not to. However, the Dane's words on his predecessor showed real warmth and understanding while looking to a future building on what the Australian had started.
"Huge congratulations to the club, to the team. Huge congratulations to Ange," he said. "He will forever be a legend in Tottenham, and congratulations to him for that. I think it's very important to understand that we all stand on the shoulders of others, so I'm going in on the foundation that Ange has built and his coaching staff, and I'm very humble about that and I'll do my very best to continue the great work they put in.
"But the feeling and the excitement and the joy and the happiness you could see in the fans' faces and the pictures you saw was wow. So hopefully we can create more of those moments, that will be the ultimate dream to do that and hey no one can say they're not winners, the team and the players are winners. Now we need to do our best to become serial winners in the future."