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Once again, Tottenham Hotspur were the laughingstock of the Premier League, drawing 0-0 with Brentford in another toothless, lethargic display that serves as a shocking reminder to Spurs supporters of how little progress has been made by Thomas Frank.

The same problems the manager had two months ago remain totally unsolved. Maybe he has finally made a few tweaks here and there, like actually playing Archie Gray, but for every young Tottenham standout who is finally getting chances, there are three others who are discarded entirely. Look at how Pape Matar Sarr, Mathys Tel, and Wilson Odobert have been treated despite being superior options and playing well.

Frank has continually thrown away any slight amount of good will he had with Spurs fans, and after this draw with Brentford, Spurs supporters were roundly booing him. The away support was chanting random player names like Erik Lamela and Eric Dier while serenading Frank with deserved boos.

Tottenham fans won't like the replacements either

But for Tottenham supporters hoping that this will soon be the end of Frank's tenure at the N17 as 2026 begins, the harsh reality is that Tottenham do not appear to be seriously considering a change right now - nor are they going after the kinds of names Spurs fans would want as replacements who would actually be upgrades.

Journalist Paul O Keefe remarked that Tottenham Hotspur will likely reassess Thomas Frank's job status in the summer 2026 transfer window, rather than making any moves now in January. And when it comes to possible replacements, Fulham manager Marco Silva will, once again, be among the names considered, which even O Keefe admits is an unfortunate reality. Earlier in the thread, O Keefe also explained why Oliver Glasner would not likely fit Spurs and called Unai Emery "impossible".

Basically, Tottenham are not going to fire Frank unless something drastic happens this season, and then if they were to replace him in the summer, the very same types of mid table managers like Silva are going to be the people Spurs look to replace him with.

Hopefully, things change between now and then and Tottenham have some guts and ambition, but, look, when has that ever been the case? O Keefe is telling nothing but the harsh truth to Spurs supporters. Tottenham are going to have to suffer with Frank and be happy about it until they are so, so irredeemably bad that then the club has to finally step in.

Tottenham Hotspur come into the January transfer window needing to vastly improve a squad that looks set to finish in the bottom half of the Premier League without any drastic changes to alter this course, even if one of those changes includes the firing of a severely disappointing Thomas Frank.

The first moves of the January window, though, are all going to be departures. Fabio Paratici is set to leave Spurs to become the Director of Football at Fiorentina, the worst team in Italy right now, in a huge shocker, while Brennan Johnson is poised to join London rivals Crystal Palace to bolster Oliver Glasner's attack.

And while Tottenham need to be accelerating any hopes at signing forwards like Yan Diomande, Etta Eyong, Savinho, and Omar Marmoush, it looks like more high profile exits from the current first team squad could be coming - even if they are not necessarily permanent losses.

Tottenham can't lose this baller

According to information from Alasdair Gold of Football.London, Tottenham Hotspur could loan out forward Mathys Tel and center back Kota Takai in the January transfer window, replacing those players with veterans for the squad to close the season while giving these two players more minutes.

To be honest, loaning both players would be a shock, especially Tel. Thomas Frank needs to be tried in court for the way he has treated Tel, who has been brilliant and certainly far beyond the horrible Richarlison. Tel has scored big goals and provided more dynamism and goal threat than the other options on the left wing, yet he rots on the bench because of an incompetent manager. Loaning him out with left wing as the biggest need in the squad would be idiotic, but, well, Gold is not wrong to float this idea from his info because this is exactly the sort of dumb move Spurs are famous for.

Now, Takai does have a more convoluted path to playing time than Tel, because his lack of minutes as a surprising new transfer from the Japanese top flight has less to do with Frank's incompetence and more to do with a legitimate logjam at center back.

But the thing is, if Tottenham are, as everyone fully expects, bound to sell Radu Dragusin to Serie A as he and his agent laughably complain about playing time shortly after the player returned from an ACL tear, then it makes little sense to lose even more depth by getting rid of Dragusin and Takai, even on loan, in the same winter transfer window.

Tottenham Hotspur are not getting the most out of their forwards this season, but that is also because their strikers have not been able to help the team out. Besides summer transfer deadline day loan signing Randal Kolo Muani, the other No. 9's in the Tottenham squad have been total disasters.

Anyone viewing Richarlison as a net positive just because he has bumbled his way to the Spurs top leading goal scorer was given a harsh reality check against Brentford. Horrid as usual, Richy tamely crossing the ball into the keeper's hands on a breakaway with the hard working Kolo Muani wide open was a microcosm of the often mindless and maddeningly inconsistent performances of Richy, who seems to play the game as if he is a team of one.

Tottenham are going into the winter transfer market as, once again, a team locked in the bottom half of the Premier League table, and whlle the left wing position is seen as their biggest need, they do technically have two decent players with a lot of long term value in that position between Wilson Odobert and Mathys Teyl.

Tottenham only have one legit striker

Meanwhile, at striker, all Spurs have is Kolo Muani, and he is on borrowed time as a loan signing from PSG. Richarlison is someone Spurs need to get rid of expeditiously if they are serious about winning, while Dominic Solanke is basically a net zero at this stage.

So Tottenham need to strongly think about signing a young striker who can help the team score goals now and potentially be the definitive solution for the next decade. And it looks like Spurs are indeed showing an interest in a great young striker who has been subtly floated in transfer rumors this season despite already making a move this past summer.

According to a report from the Daily Mail's Simon Jones, Tottenham Hotspur have checked in on Levante striker Etta Eyong as a possible signing this winter transfer window. It is surprisingly the first time Eyong has been concretely linked to Spurs, and while other Premier League clubs have been whispered in general, Barcelona is the only big club strongly linked with the current La Liga star.

Eyong is becoming a much more coveted name now, too. He flies under the radar at Levante, a small and struggling club, but he is getting more attention with his big performances for Cameroon at AFCON, where he has already scored despite only starting one of the three games.

Flying under the radar, Eyong is just 22 and transferred from Villarreal to Levante in surprising fashion. He is a good, clinical finisher with great athletic tools and fluidity, quietly scoring 5 goals in 12 games despite playing for one of the worst teams in Spain. He is one to watch for Tottenham.

Tottenham Hotspur have gotten into the full swing of the winter transfer window, and while most fans want to see the club aggressively upgrade a squad that is comfortably in the bottom half of the Premier League table - and looks incapable of coming up higher under Thomas Frank at this rate - the name of the game in the early going has been sales.

Spurs have already received two fabled Here We Gos from transfer insider Fabrizio Romano on the first day of the New Year. Manor Solomon has made his way on loan from Villarreal to Fiorentina while on the books at Tottenham, and then Spurs have sealed a permanent sale of between 30 and 35 million pounds for Welsh winger Brennan Johnson.

The money from the Johnson sale is a hefty chunk of change that could help Tottenham sign a better winger on the left side of the formation who can actually help Spurs win some Premier League fixtures in this difficult 2025/26 season.

Tottenham need to keep making money

And now, Fabrizio Romano is reporting that the Manor Solomon move could yield Tottenham Hotspur further transfer earnings. At the time he reported of the new loan to Fiorentina, which was surely pulled by the guiding hand of Fabio Paratici ahead of his switch from Spurs to the Director of Football of the Viola, Fab said that there would be an option to buy in this new loan deal with the Serie A giants. Notably, there was no such option to buy in Solomon's failed loan to the Yellow Submarine in Spain.

Now, Romano states that Solomon will have a medical on Friday to help seal the deal, and he reveals that the option to buy is worth 10 million euros. While that may seem half of what Tottenham fans were hoping based on the rumors when Leeds United were interested in him last year, well, there is a reason why Tottenham struggled to sell him anywhere near that amount in 2025.

Any penny Tottenham can get out of Solomon is a win, because he showed in the Championship and just recently for Villarreal that he does not have the all around quality or dynamism to play meaningful minutes for a hopeful contender like Tottenham. So Spurs had better hope that Solomon scores a few clutch goals for the literal worst team in Italian football and finagles the Paratici connection into that 10 million euro deal.

Tottenham Hotspur were already snubbed by their dream transfer target on the wings before the January window even opened up. Antoine Semenyo said, "Thanks but no thanks" to Tottenham days before the market started, rejecting Spurs with the full intent of joining Manchester City.

And just in case Spurs fans were getting their hopes up that a likely Semenyo transfer to the Etihad would open the doors for a dream move by Savinho or Omar Marmoush to the N17, so far, early indications are that Tottenham are most likely not going to sign either of those guys, too.

The top transfer target for Tottenham on the wings just might be unproven prospect Yan Diomande of RB Leipzig - a player who currently carries a potential 100 million euro price tag. Of course, that is a bloated fee that Leipzig are starting out with to scare teams into overpaying, but, well, Leipzig do sell strong, Diomande is a special player, goal scoring wingers of his age are in high demand, and, obviously, the Bundesliga giants are in no position to sell.

Tottenham are falling behind again

All of that was already there, and with Tottenham having to compete with a Premier League powerhouse who already crushed them to Bryan Mbeumo last summer in Manchester United, Spurs supporters never had high hopes of competing for Diomande either.

Well, it is about to get more difficult. Simon Jones of the Daily Mail is reporting that not only are Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United interested in Yan Diomande, but the RB Leipzig gem is also now generating interest from two massive Champions League contenders who love to sign their players, Bayern Munich and Liverpool.

Mere interest from the English and German Reds immediately puts them at the top of the favored list, and it moves Tottenham to the bottom. Although Spurs can offer Diomande the easiest path to playing time on the left wing, when anyone watches what Thomas Frank produced against lowly Brentford in a 0-0 draw, it is clear that Spurs are going to have a harder time selling their attacking brand of football to anyone.

Bayern carry a certain level of cachet when it comes to recruiting talents already in the German top flight, and Diomande could be their long term heir to Luis Diaz. Meanwhile, Liverpool are still after a true out and out left winger to replace the very same Diaz. So Tottenham's task to recruit the next big thing on the wings just got even tougher.

It is honestly going to take a lot longer than any Tottenham Hotspur supporter would like to admit for this club to truly turn things around and become a top four team in the Premier League again, because as the 2025/26 season is showing everyone, Spurs have fallen very hard in terms of their quality and mentality.

So much has to change about how this club is fundamentally run from the way they are coached, to the way the players approach the games philosophically, to the personnel decisions that are made by the front office in terms of recruitment.

Tottenham keep telling fans that a change is coming and that things will be different in the future, even finally firing Daniel Levy this past summer transfer window. Yet at the end of the day, all Tottenham fans see before them is the same old Spurs.

Fabrizio Romano has confirmed the transfer

Well, to kick off the winter transfer window, Tottenham are actually making moves that show important progress in an underrated aspect of a club's success: selling players. After notching their first Here We Go of the window by finding a new loan destination for the unwanted Manor Solomon, Spurs have made their first permanent transfer of the window, too.

As was rumored heavily, Brennan Johnson will indeed be heading to Crystal Palace this January, as Fabrizio Romano has green lit this Premier League blockbuster transfer between London rivals with his fabled Here We Go.

Tottenham Hotspur and Palace had already agreed to terms on the transfer, and, now, Fab says that Johnson has said his yes to "personal terms" with the Eagles. Spurs will get 33.5 million pounds out of the deal, and while that is a little less than the 35 million pounds everyone thought, it is more money than Johnson would have been worth to them as a backup right winger - and even a third stringer once Dejan Kulusevski returns from a knee injury.

While there was nothing unexpected about Johnson getting sold to Crystal Palace this winter, the transfer shows an important change in approach by Tottenham. In the past, Tottenham would have held onto Johnson until he rotted away on the bench without playing and then would have gotten maybe 20 million pounds out of him.

Now, Spurs are getting a pretty decent fee for a player who is pretty good and holds sentimental value for them, but, in all reality, is not good enough to be a true star forward at the Premier League level and therefore would not fit Spurs future goal of being a top four team again.

At some point, Tottenham Hotspur supporters are going to reach a breaking point. They were pretty much already at that point after watching Spurs get totally drubbed 4-1 by arch rivals Arsenal in the last North London Derby, as Thomas Frank clearly did not learn his lesson from a ghastly 1-0 loss to the other big London rivals, Chelsea, just a few weeks prior.

Tottenham played like absolute cowards in their biggest game of the season and still got torn to shreds defensively - by Eberechi Eze, no less, a player who has done almost literally nothing in every other Premier League fixture this season.

Somehow, Tottenham have found more lows after that. They lost to Fulham in a terrible game after the Arsenal result. They won against Brentford and Slavia Praha, only to get shellacked by Sean Dyche and Nottingham Forest 3-0 shortly following those two wins. And then after beating local rivals Crystal Palace last Sunday, Frank and Co. laid another egg with a 0-0 draw with Brentford in the rematch on Thursday night.

Tottenham are sloppy and toothless

Yes, there have been far worse results than the 0-0 to Brentford this mid week in the Premier League, but watching how sloppy Tottenham play and how little urgency the Frank coached sides have, it is obvious fans are getting fed up and no longer see any positives or any upside to keeping Frank.

The reception he received from the away supporters was jarring. These folks paid their hard earned money and were treated to Spurs literally wasting time against freaking Brentford in a 0-0 game. During the match, these fans were serenading Frank with chants of Martin Jol and Eric Dier, of all people, before roundly booing the Danish manager after the match ended scoreless.

Not only are all of Frank's games a snoozefest to watch and insult to the intelligence of every Totteham fan watching, but it is not as if this boring and supposedly pragmatic approach is yielding any results for Spurs. If anything, they have been somehow worse this season in the Premier League than they were last season.

As the January transfer window officially opens for business, Tottenham Hotspur will be scouring the market for the best available attacking options who can both materially help their squad in the here and now while offering a similar long term value proposition as recent permanent signings Mathys Tel, Xavi Simons, and Mohammed Kudus.

Of course, pretty much every other top club in the Premier League will be looking at the same criteria, which is why Spurs were already soundly beaten to Bournemouth star Antoine Semenyo. Manchester City are firmly expected to seal the Ghanaian international's signature soon, but with that, Spurs are hoping it will open up the potential signing of a Manchester City winger to them.

The main goal targets are Savinho and Omar Marmoush. Savinho was Tottenham's favored winger target at the end of the summer market, but Man City were not open to selling after their dreams of signing Rodrygo Goes faded into dust. Marmoush would be a more ideal fit as a goal scoring left winger, but although he has been cast even more on the periphery of the squad this season - and would seemingly be left out entirely with the addition of Semenyo - there is no indication he is up for grabs yet.

The third man for Tottenham

Meanwhile, the 22 year old winger Oscar Bobb has been mentioned as a third attacker from Manchester City that could interest Tottenham, and it sounds like the Citizens are open to letting the youngster spread his wings elsewhere.

Fabrizio Romano and others have been reporting of active interest around Europe in Bobb, with Borussia Dortmund - not Tottenham - pushing the hardest to sign the player. And based on what Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has to say in response to the rumors, via Fab, it does not sound like he is too worried about Bobb making his exit.

Guardiola said of Oscar Bobb and the Dortmund links, Oscar Bobb and Borussia Dortmund in talks? You can ask Oscar, not me…"

That quote probably sounds familiar to Premier League supporters, because it is similar to what Pep Guardiola always says when there is someone linked with a move away from Manchester City whom the Spanish manager does not want to keep around.

Most of the time, Guardiola and Man City do not regret the players who exit, though there are circumstances where a young talent who cannot get into the side ends up blossoming elsewhere. Cole Palmer is the most prominent example of that.

Bobb probably is not that caliber of a player, and Tottenham will want to aim higher and wait to see if Marmoush or Savinho could possibly become available. He will likely suit Dortmund a lot better, but Bobb is still someone worth keeping on the radar as a possible depth option if nobody better arises.

Thomas Frank watched his Tottenham Hotspur side finish 2025 on a high after beating Crystal Palace 1-0 on Sunday. But the Dane remains under pressure and a former Premier League manager has questioned what his vision for the Lilywhites is.

Spurs' win at Selhurst Park was vital amid a nightmare start to the season in the league. Frank arrived as Ange Postecoglou's replacement in the summer but is already feeling the heat just five months into his reign.

The Dane will head into the new year desperately wanting to oversee a turnaround with his side sitting 11th after 18 games. There are question marks about his squad but also his own ideas for the North Londoners.

Alan Pardew ponders what Frank's focus is

Frank was expected to turn the tide when he replaced Postecoglou following last season's 17th-place finish in the league. The Australian coach was dismissed due to this dismal showing in the league despite guiding the club to the Europa League trophy.

Alan Pardew gave his thoughts about the Lilywhites' situation and argued that Postecoglou's men only finished above the drop zone last season because he was focused on Europe.

The former Newcastle United manager said on Sky Sports:

"They wouldn't have finished 17h because Ange definitely kicked in, they would have finished somewhere halfway from that if he'd played the front three all the time. But he was concentrating on Europe, and hence they were in a really low position."

Pardew touched on Frank's Spurs and struggled to work out what the plan is:

"Where they are now, it's difficult to really add up about what they are. Sometimes I look at them and wonder what team they are. Are they a low block team that are going to counterattack? Are they going to dominate games? And I think a problem Thomas Frank has had is home form."

Spurs have won just one home game in the league this season, and that came against Frank's former employers, Brentford. It's on the road when the Whites are at their best, and Pardew highlighted the problems:

"Home form is when you have got to dictate the game and this isn't a natural for Thomas Frank teams. At Brentford they were always set up to counter-attack."

Frank became one of the most highly-regarded tactitans in England during his time in charge of Brentford. He propelled the Bees to the top-flight and built on this by making them tough to play against.

The style of play he implemented at the Gtech doesn't quite work taking over Spurs. This backs Pardew's point about the team's difficulty controlling games especially at home.

Frank has been unable to get his 'risk-taking' methods across

There is an indecisiveness about the type of football Frank wants his side to play, which stems from his past pragmatic approach at Brentford. When he took over in July, his first press conference filled fans with optimism over an exciting brand of football.

Frank told the media:

“We’ll play risk-taking, aggressive football. We want to play forward, to attack.”

We have seen glimpses of this philosophy, including the 3-0 away win over West Ham United earlier this season. There were plenty of positives in the opening four games, but Frank's troops hit a brick wall and have stuttered since October.

Frank is one of the favourites with the bookies to be the next Premier League manager to be sacked. He will be feeling the pressure heading into the second half of the season, and there are many issues for him to deal with.

Tottenham Hotspur know that in a matter of days, Fabio Paratici will leave to become the Director of Football at Fiorentina. That hardly says anything great about Spurs right now, because if Paratici is leaving the Lilywhites for the literal worst team in Serie A and the biggest flops of the 2025/26 season in all of Europe, then he must not be too keen on the vision shared by Thomas Frank and the new management structure.

Still, Fiorentina is a huge club, and Paratici did fine work in Italy, his home country, as the main man in charge at Juventus before coming to Tottenham. Every Spurs fan will wish him well, and even in his brief return to the club, he still helped out by bringing in Randal Kolo Muani on loan from PSG after a nifty stint in Turin.

Even on his way out, though, Paratici is delivering an unexpected gift to Tottenham in the form of an exit, which has received the fabled "Here We Go" from Fabrizio Romano even before the more expected departure of Paratici himself and the potential sale of Brennan Johnson to London rivals Crystal Palace.

The first 'Here We Go' drops

Per Fab, right around the time that Fiorentina are set to announce the signing of Fabio Paratici, they have reached a "verbal agreement" to sign Tottenham Hotspur forward Manor Solomon. The player is currently on loan from Spurs to Villarreal, having sealed that move last summer after spending the 2024/25 campaign on loan with Leeds United in the Championship.

Solomon has predictably done nothing for Villarreal this season and shown that his level is far below their club. But given Fiorentina are the worst team in Serie A right now, Solomon, who does have a knack for finding the back of the net from the left wing position, he can only help the Viola's situation.

Paratici must like the familiarity Solomon brings and knows that he needs supplemental goals from the wing, above all else. Romano says that this is going to be a reset loan deal, so Solomon's loan will simply be switched from Villarreal to Fiorentina for the rest of the season.