Johan Lange has a "very good feeling" about the coaching team Tottenham have put together following Thomas Frank's appointment as head coach. The 51-year-old was confirmed as Ange Postecoglou's replacement last month but it wasn't until Monday evening when his full backroom staff was revealed.
Previously announcing the arrivals of Justin Cochrane (first team assistant coach), Chris Haslam (head of performance & first team assistant coach), Andreas Georgson (first team assistant coach) and Joe Newton (first team coach analyst), Matt Wells, who was Postecoglou's senior assistant coach, will once again take his place on the first team coaching staff and has been confirmed as a first team assistant coach.
Cameron Campbell joins Tottenham as first team individual development coach and Fabian Otte become first team goalkeeper coach following Rob Burch's exit. Frank's coaching team is further strengthened by Stuart Lewis and Dean Brill stepping up from the academy.
Lewis is now Tottenham's first team academy transition coach and Brill joins Otte in the goalkeeping department as first team assistant goalkeeping coach. Speaking in a club interview about the big coaching changes taking place, Lange outlined the process when it came to deciding on Frank's backroom team.
"In the interview process we had for Thomas we spent quite a lot of time talking about which kind of staff should we try to assemble around Thomas," explained the Dane. "Firstly, we mapped out which kind of competences we thought was important to have the best possible start before we start to put any names to it.
"Thomas had a wish to bring in a few coaches that he has worked with before, but for all the other roles, we've had very, very good process where we've interviewed several candidates for each one of the roles and standing here today with a very, very good feeling and quite excited about the staff we have put together."
Lange then went into a bit more depth on the importance of Lewis' role and also Brill making the step from the academy to the first team.
"As Thomas referenced, I think it's important for us to have specialists," added Lange. "We are very fortunate as a club that we are able to attract some of the best specialist coaches in the world. And as you say, we also made a couple of internal promotions.
"Stuart Lewis will come into a new role as transition coach between the first team and the academy. And as Thomas said before around Cameron [Campbell] coming in as the individual coach, we want players of all ages to have that development mindset.
"But of course to strengthen even more the bond between the first team and the academy is something that we have worked hard on for a number of years and with this new hire of Stewart coming into this new role we believe that it will be even even stronger in the years to come because we have some very, very exciting young players that will come through, push in the upcoming years and they need maybe a little bit of special attention as well to bridge that big gap that it is to go from academy football to the Premier League.
"We've had Dean Brill coming into a new role as assistant goalkeeper coach, he was head of academy goalkeeper coaching. Again, it shows that we want to show both players but also staff that not only coaches, can also be in the medical, performance analysis, scouting, in all the departments, that if you are coming into our academy, getting the DNA under the skin that we can have good, exciting pathways for coaches, specialists in this football club."