Tottenham Hotspur head coach Thomas Frank is “very confident” he will be given time to improve the team’s performances.
Spurs are 12th in the Premier League table and have taken only four points from their last six games and have lost three matches in a row across all competitions.
Frank’s side were beaten 4-1 by north London rivals Arsenal, suffered a 5-3 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League and conceded twice inside the opening six minutes in Saturday’s loss to Fulham. They have not won a league game at home since victory over Burnley on the opening weekend of the season.
The Danish head coach believes he has the support of the club’s majority owners, the Lewis family.
“I think the ownership — of course I’m just starting to know them — but it seems like they’re good guys, intelligent people,” Frank said in his news conference ahead of Tottenham’s game at Newcastle United on Tuesday.
“They know how to run businesses and learning about football, learning more now they’ve become owners. I think when we’re dealing with intelligent people they can see every successful dynasty, every successful club has taken time.
“Yeah you have one where you maybe win one year or the second year, but you can’t sustain it if you don’t build something sustainable. Impossible.”
Spurs are missing key players through injury, including Dominic Solanke, James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski, but fans are growing frustrated and have booed during multiple home games.
Frank was hired by chief executive officer Vinai Venkatesham and former executive chairman Daniel Levy who was removed from his role in September after 24 years.
During the defeat to Fulham, sections of the crowd booed and appeared to ironically cheer goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario after he made a mistake in the build-up to Harry Wilson’s goal. Frank described the supporters treatment of Vicario as “unacceptable” and said “they can’t be true Tottenham fans”.
Frank said of his comments on Monday: “When I said the ‘not true Spurs fan’, what I meant by that just to make it clear was the mocking of one of their own players.
“He makes a mistake and there is a little bit of booing after that, as I remember it. The next ball he clears and there is like a cheering. You can’t do that. The opponent can do that, you can’t do that as a fan. That’s where I would stand by what I said. The booing during the game I don’t think is helpful, (but) we are all different.”
Frank spent nearly seven years in charge of Brentford before he joined Spurs in June, replacing Ange Postecoglou on a three-year contract. Postecoglou was sacked two weeks after winning the Europa League which was Spurs’ first piece of silverware in 17 years.