Thomas Frank has made it clear what his strengths and weaknesses are ahead of his appointment as the new Tottenham Hotspur head coach.
The 51-year-old is set to be appointed at Spurs to replace Ange Postecoglou after seven years at Brentford and he will be bringing his assistant Justin Cochrane along with head of athletic performance Chris Haslam and analyst Joe Newton. Spurs finally confirmed on Thursday the departures of Mile Jedinak, Nick Montgomery and Sergio Raimundo from their roles as assistant coaches.
Frank has enjoyed plenty of success at Brentford in his six years there and will now try to replicate that on a bigger scale in north London. During an appearance on the High Performance Podcast earlier this season, the Dane was asked what his strengths and weaknesses are.
"I think my biggest strength is I am positive, energetic and open. That's also the weakness because it's often that the strength is the weakness," he said. "So I don't know if you can be too optimistic, but I think because I believe so much in the guys and the team, so we go to Anfield [for example], I believe we can win there, and I get so...not frustrated, but down if we lose, even though I know the chance for losing is big.
"So that's a downside to it. I mean, having energy. Also I think the strength is that I want to do everything, which is good because that's give me ability or determination to achieve something, but I also learned that I can't do everything all the time. I need breaks, I need to rest."
Frank was asked what his three non-negotiable behaviours are for him and the people around him and he said "hard work", "respect" and "be on time".
On what the hidden cost of his journey is to reach this level, the incoming Spurs boss said: "I think what they don't see for me, I think it's in that journey, there's a lot of things you need to say no to. So that's family birthdays, kids' birthdays, seeing friends, going out, holidays, all that, I think that's the biggest cost, I would say.
"And then in football, I think it's brutal because there is 10% joy and 90% suffering, so I think that must be the hidden cost as well."
Frank was asked for his final message to people and it's one he's going to have to take into life at Tottenham Hotspur.
"Don't just say that that attitude where you're confident but humble, because if you're confident, that's where you believe in yourself and you need to believe in yourself," he said. "If you don't believe in yourself, you can achieve nothing, nothing, nothing, and it doesn't matter what people say to you, keep believing in yourself.
"Of course, learn and learn from your mistakes and make a lot of mistakes, but not the same one twice. So confident and then humble enough to put that hard work in, because it's relentless out there and also quite fun."