Robbie Keane has been tipped as a replacement for Thomas Frank at Tottenham after the latest nightmare on the pitch.
Frank appeared to have ridden out the storm when Spurs beat Brentford and Slavia Prague relatively comfortably last week, but he came crashing back to reality on Sunday.
Tottenham were easily beaten 3-0 at Nottingham Forest in a game where Guglielmo Vicario made a pair of bad errors leading to Callum Hudson-Odoi goals.
And now former Tottenham defender Ramon Vega believes the Dane needs to go, and has tipped ex-Spurs striker Keane as the man to replace him.
Ramon Vega says Robbie Keane will inspire Tottenham players
The Ferencvaros boss has won titles in Israel and Hungary already and last week beat Rangers in the Europa League.
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His passionate celebrations afterwards as a former Celtic forward drew attention, and is part of what Vega thinks would make him the right fit at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Speaking live on talkSPORT Vega put Frank’s current struggles down to a lack of connection with his players, which he believes Keane would have no problem with.
He told Jeff Stelling and Ally McCoist: “The questions is who is gonna potentially be good for this? I have a suggestion. Robbie Keane is pretty much now the Irish boy in Ferencvaros, he’s done very well, just beat Rangers as well… he would be a good one.
“He’s a kind of DNA ex-player, but he knows the psychological side of the dressing room. What is missing for me here with Thomas, I don’t see he inspires these players in the dressing room.
“I don’t see inspiration, I don’t see this connection, I don’t see the respect a manager gets and you show that with the body language on the football pitch. That’s where a Premier League manager needs to work most.”
Keane a valid option for Tottenham, but not yet
On current evidence Frank looks more likely to join the ever-growing list of recent Spurs bosses who have come and gone since Mauricio Pochettino without finding the answers.
However, this is a different club now that Daniel Levy has been removed from his position, so it is possible they are prepared to weather the storm of criticism from fans and media and give Frank the season to establish himself.
It is notoriously inefficient to hire a manager, back him in the transfer window, and then get rid of him to leave a squad of players that will inevitably need revamping in the image of the replacement, but if they are going to sack the Dane they may as well do it now while there is still a winter window for the next coach rather than later in the season.
For all Keane is developing some solid credentials as a manager in winning titles in Europe it is surely premature for him to be in the running for Spurs just yet.
It is debatable whether it is more of a step up from mid-table Premier League in Frank’s case, or with league winners in smaller overseas leagues in Keane’s, but both invite claims of being out of their depth if things don’t go well quickly.
Frank is finding that out right now, and Keane would risk being chewed up and spat out if he replaced him, but if he continues on his current trajectory it might not seem such a fanciful suggestion in a few years’ time.