Tottenham Hotspur are struggling and former part-owner Alan Sugar wants the club to sack Thomas Frank and bring in former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to replace him
Former Tottenham Hotspur part-owner, Alan Sugar, has urged the club to sack Thomas Frank and bring in ex-Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp. The Spurs boss is facing mounting scrutiny following Sunday's 3-0 thrashing at Nottingham Forest, which extended Frank's disappointing run in north London.
The Dane arrived at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium from Brentford over the summer, but fans have grown increasingly frustrated with the team's playing style and dismal home record. Tottenham have managed just two league victories at home this season and languish in 11th place in the Premier League table after Ibrahim Sangare and a Callum Hudson-Odoi double secured victory for Forest at the City Ground.
The pressure is intensifying on Frank, whose side trails the top four by six points - the position that guarantees automatic Champions League football next term. Sugar, who served as Spurs chairman for nine years in the 1990s, has called for the club to consider a managerial shake-up.
The 78-year-old has advocated for Tottenham to appoint Klopp in place of Frank. He said: "With the massive fortune of the Lewis family, it would be a win-win situation if they hired Jurgen Klopp in January.
"Loads of money for players and a great manager. Who agrees?"
Sugar's hopes of seeing Klopp at the Spurs helm may prove futile, though. The German departed Liverpool at the conclusion of the 2023/24 campaign after almost nine years in charge - stating he no longer had the energy for such a demanding role.
The ex-Dortmund and Mainz gaffer has made it abundantly clear that he has no plans to return to the dugout. He's also adamant that managing another English team apart from Liverpool is a non-starter, even if he were to reconsider his decision to retire from management.
"I said I will never coach a different team in England. So that means if [he returns] it's Liverpool," Klopp revealed on the Diary of a CEO podcast.
"So yeah, theoretically it's possible. I love what I do right now, I don't miss coaching. I don't. I mean I do coach, just different, not players. And I don't miss it.
"I don't miss standing in the rain two-and-a-half, three hours. I don't miss going to a press conference three times a week, having 10-12 interviews a week. I don't miss that.
"I don't miss being in the dressing room in the sense that I don't have it often enough. I coached 1,080 something games. So, I was in the dressing room very, very often.
"I'm 58, that's from your perspective, old from the other side, it's not that old. That means I could make the decision in a few years. I don't know. [If] I had to make the decision today, I won't coach again, but thank God I don't have to do that. I can just see what the future brings."