Thomas Frank was the man selected to replace Celtic hero Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham Hotspur in the summer.
Despite Spurs winning the Europa League under Postecoglou’s stewardship, he was still booted out, and now there are already question marks over Frank after his arrival from Brentford.
Whilst Martin O’Neill was helping Celtic win away in the Europa League on Thursday night, it was another defeat for the London club, this time at the hands of the European champions, Paris Saint-Germain.
It’s understandable to lose to a team of PSG’s calibre, but it’s what has been laid out in the opening months that has led to Frank taking verbal hits and then being compared to Celtic hero O’Neill.
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O’Neill is Britain’s oldest active coach, and at the age of 73, he has brought back life and that winning feeling to the champions of Scotland after an abject start to the campaign.
When O’Neill was speaking in Rotterdam about Celtic’s Europa League clash against Feyenoord, he mentioned how ‘the performance is secondary to the result’, and it caught the eye of Spurs critic Ramon Vega.
The former Tottenham and Celtic player wrote on social media that Frank, whose defensive style of play has been questioned, needs to ‘learn’ from O’Neill.
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Vega noted O’Neill’s winning attitude, as Spurs recently lost to their London rivals Arsenal 4-1, in what was a humiliating performance.
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“That’s the difference between a winning coach mentally, like Martin O’Neill and Frank,’ said Vega.
‘A winner says, “The performance is secondary to the result”!
‘Well, Frank, get that attitude and learn from it. Well done, Martin, for today’s Win! Brilliant job, he has done again for the @CelticFC legend! Hail Hail 🍀🍀🍀”
It’s interesting how Spurs have gone from being critical of Postecoglou’s all-action attacking style to now questioning Frank’s defensive ways.
When teams are sacking managers for winning trophies, when that team in question doesn’t win much anyway, then you have serious problems.