Tottenham Hotspur may only be days away from firing Thomas Frank, who buried himself as deep in the gutter as he has ever been in as coach of this team. Spurs just lost 2-1 to one of the most abysmal teams in the Premier League, 18th placed West Ham United, and Frank's tired old refrain after the game was all about how Spurs were unlucky and were close to a good outcome.
News flash, buddy, you have never been close to doing anything remotely good for Tottenham over the past two months. Each passing week is a new lecture in humilitation written by Frank, and Tottenham fans are counting down the days, hoping he gets canned after the Borussia Dortmund game on Tuesday at the absolute latest. They have been done with Frank for weeks, if not months, as a collective fan base.
Now, the question is about who will replace Frank. There is a clear dream option Tottenham supporters have in mind in recently fired Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso, who only failed at the high pressured Santiago Bernabeu owing to a lack of experience at coaching the massive egos in Madrid. And to be fair to Alonso additionally, those egos have gone completely out of control and never gave Alonso a shake to begin with.
Xabi Alonso is not realistic
Alonso, though, is unrealistic, and if Liverpool fire Arne Slot, there is no way he would pick Tottenham over his former club. Tottenham can not put all their eggs in his basket and have to come up with alternatives, but, unfortunately, all of those alternatives are, like Thomas Frank, of the mid table Premier League ilk.
The most prominent of those mid table Premier League managers is Oliver Glasner, a former Europa League winner at Eintracht Frankfurt and winner of the FA Cup last season for Crystal Palace. Glasner may just be the best coach in the history of the Eagles, and because of his trophy case, he is automatically miles above the other middling middle men in the mid table.
However, Glasner, character wise, may be a worse higher than Frank. While Frank is a coward who clearly does not belong at Tottenham, you have to question Glasner's temperment and ability to deal with a top team, based on how foolishly and childishly he has reacted to Palace selling Marc Guehi out of necessity, having already warned Glasner for months that they would have to sell him.
Glasner threw a temper tantrum, even after already confirming he would be leaving Crystal Palace at the end of the season and not renewing. He told reporters on Saturday, via Fabrizio Romano, âI feel we are being abandoned completely. The worst thing is selling our captain one day before playing a game. I have kept my mouth shut until now... You get your heart torn out twice this season, both times one day before a game, Eze and Guehiâ.
He also said, via Crystal Palace beat writer Bobby Manzi, âCrystal Palace are fine to end the season like this â with Oliver Glasner, with another manager, I don't know, I don't care.â
Wow. Yeah, Tottenham Hotspur need to stay away from Oliver Glasner at all costs. Using the third person is never a good sign, but complaining about sales that were perfectly valid when you are Crystal Palace is an entirely different story. Who does this guy think he is, Antonio Conte at Juventus? Glasner sounds like he is not stable enough to be a leader, and it is no wonder why he cycles jobs so quickly. He is stronger tactically than Frank but maybe even weaker mentally, and Spurs don't need that rubbish again.