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Tottenham Hotspur released their new Nike home kit for the 2025/26 season last week and will wear it during pre-season.

The white shirt boasts navy on the shoulders just like last campaign but with the addition of a new grey and ashen slate pattern underneath the arm. The cockerel badge also sits centrally on the chest of the shirt, with Nike's famous 'Swoosh' design just underneath.

The likes of Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall, Micky van de Ven and Dejan Kulusevski all featured heavily in the club's promotional content, with Bethany England and Amanda Nilden modelling the Tottenham Hotspur Women's version of the kits.

The Lilywhites will once again travel to Asia this summer and it is here where the squad will first wear the new home kit. Spurs will face Arsenal in Hong Kong on Thursday, July 31 at the new 50,000-capacity Kai Tak Stadium. It will be the first ever North London Derby to be played outside of the UK.

The squad will also travel to Korea as part of the pre-season tour and participate in the 2025 Coupang Play Series. The north Londoners are scheduled to play fellow Premier League side Newcastle United, although a date has not yet been set for this match.

Tottenham will then travel to Germany and play Bayern Munich for the Telekom Cup on Thursday, August 7 before taking on Champions League winners PSG in the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday, August 13. The Premier League season will then commence just days later on the weekend of August 16/17.

The Spurs squad will return to Hotspur Way in early July, although things will be slightly different after Ange Postecoglou was sacked as head coach on Friday. The Australian guided the club to their first trophy in 17 years after winning the Europa League but it was ultimately poor league form which cost the former Celtic boss.

Once again Tottenham Hotspur have reached a crossroads where chairman Daniel Levy must decide what the club is meant to be.

With Ange Postecoglou's departure so the recent trend continued at the north London outfit of Levy replacing Spurs' head coach every two years on the dot. You could have inked in a reminder on your calendar for the summer of 2025 to expect a major change in the dugout and a new direction, as it was two years before that, and two years before that, and yes, two years before that.

History does not bode well for Thomas Frank in that sense and the incoming Dane will be aiming to erase that scheduled appointment in Tottenham diaries for 2027. In all Levy has sacked 13 managers and with the arrival of Frank so the chairman will have had 19 different men leading the team from the dugout, including caretaker managers, during his 24 years at the club.

It's a remarkable number and it's not just different people appointed but very different styles, systems, characters and needs. The reset button has been pressed many, many times. Some other clubs have a set and defined style and way of approaching their football as well as their aims each season, all set within an overall stability, thus making managerial changes more seamless.

After a quarter of a century at the helm, it's difficult to know exactly what Levy's Tottenham is as it's constantly changing. When you think it's meant to be the swashbuckling style of Spurs of old, so Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and Nuno Espirito Santo have been appointed with a very different brand of football only to be sacked with a statement to be made that Tottenham want to get back to that exciting, attacking brand of football.

Levy himself has admitted that he made mistakes with the appointment of the two 'trophy managers', who then found they could not reproduce what they did elsewhere at Tottenham, although Mourinho will always point to the fact that he was sacked days before a cup final.

"We did it twice and look you have to learn from your mistakes," Levy said in 2023. "They're great managers but maybe not for this club. For what we want, we want to play in a certain way and if that means it has to take a little bit longer to win maybe it's the right thing for us. That's why bringing Ange in was from my point of view the right decision."

It didn't actually take a 'little bit longer', only that familiar two-year timeframe, but with that trophy win the chairman seemingly craved now in the bag, it was decided it wasn't the right decision.

The statement put out about Postecoglou's departure informed that "the board has unanimously concluded that it is in the best interests of the club for a change to take place".

The board in this instance is believed to have mainly comprised Levy alongside operations and finance director Matthew Collecott and lead independent director Jonathan Turner. Non-executive director Peter Charrington, director of ENIC, joined the board a couple of months ago, but sits on a number of different boards at various companies and is not believed to have got involved with football decisions at Tottenham as of yet.

The new CEO Vinai Venkatesham was only brought on to the board a couple of days before the decision, replacing executive director and long-time Levy advisor Donna-Maria Cullen. Cullen, who has been at Spurs for around three decades, is expected to remain connected to the club in a consultative capacity after she departs officially this summer. Chief football officer Scott Munn is expected to leave the club as well in the coming weeks officially, another Australian heading through the exit door.

The decision to remove Postecoglou, based on the poor Premier League position and points tally, was voted through and people within Tottenham were surprised when Levy did not put his name to it in the official statement as he had done for Conte, Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino among others.

The only recent occasion when the chairman did not have his quotes in a managerial sacking statement was when Espirito Santo departed in 2021. That was left to former - and potentially future - managing director of football Fabio Paratici. The Italian had convinced Levy to appoint the Portuguese by showing him footage of his more attacking Valencia side so perhaps it was only fair that Paratici should have his name attached to his exit after it failed within months.

However, after a week in which Cullen had received a lengthy goodbye from Levy in the statement of her departure and Ryan Mason also had words from the chairman as he left for his first managerial job at West Brom, it seemed odd to some within the club for there not to be a line from Levy owning the decision to sack the man who had won Tottenham their first trophy in 17 years.

The crux now for the chairman is to finally decide after almost a quarter of a century as the one constant at Spurs what the club is meant to be. He always said that he is the custodian of Tottenham Hotspur and he has without doubt improved the club greatly off the pitch, but on it we're still none the wiser.

Are they a trophy-winning side, albeit the cup side they were before Levy's arrival, because in their current guise they cannot become constant title challengers because not enough is invested into the club beyond what it makes? Mauricio Pochettino's couple of seasons getting close to Leicester and Chelsea in a title race were the aberration rather than the norm.

Is the aim to simply exist by striving for the top four each season? Is it built around the prospect of bringing in Champions League football and the finance that comes with it to keep the club successful as a sustainable business first and foremost or is the most important thing to use that money to invest in higher aims as a football club?

The problem with the latter suggestion is that if it has been the plan for the past two and a half decades then it has only succeeded on six occasions.

Harry Redknapp's fourth-place finish in 2012 did not bring Champions League football thanks to Chelsea's exploits but perhaps that misfortune was balanced by Postecoglou leading Spurs into the elite club competition for a seventh time despite the struggles in the league. Yes, both managers were sacked weeks later.

Privately, Postecoglou is understood to have felt early on during his tenure at Tottenham that despite his best efforts to change things within the club, it wasn't going to truly happen. The 59-year-old kept pushing and at least managed to mark his name in the north London outfit's history before the two-year mark hit, unlike so many before him.

Tottenham need major investment and have officially been looking for that extra cash for more than 14 months now. All eyes will be on whether it finally arrives this summer through new means or through ENIC.

The imminent arrival of Thomas Frank feels like a huge roll of the dice by Levy in terms of how his legacy at the club will be remembered.

His chairmanship was always judged by the lack of trophies within those 24 years, other than 2008's League Cup, but that narrative looked to be over with Postecoglou delivering the club's first European title in 41 years for a grateful fanbase starved of success.

However, Spurs did not allow the euphoria around that night in Bilbao to last long. It could cost something approaching £20million to replace Postecoglou with Frank, including the bonus won by the Australian for bringing a trophy to the club and then there is the transfer cost in fitting a squad to yet another manager with different needs.

It's a big financial outlay on a new head coach who is not a star name like Conte or Mourinho and one who will take some time to win over sections of the support.

For his part, Frank is a very good coach and a great communicator. He will say all of the right things to the fans and as importantly the players, who have shown their outpouring of thanks for what Postecoglou did for them in never-before-seen numbers after a managerial exit.

For Tottenham, Frank will be a safe pair of hands and he will need - and want - to be more than just that to make the change worthwhile.

The 51-year-old's past in the Danish international youth set-up and what he did at Brentford shows that he will be able to develop the large group of talented youngsters Spurs have been amassing. Perhaps that is the hope for Levy that signing teenagers galore will see them all graduate with honours at the same time, but the Champions League will be an unforgiving classroom if they are not surrounded by top quality experience.

Frank has admitted in the past that he is very much a head coach, a man on the training pitches rather than a manager, and he will work with what he is given rather than demanding to have the final say on transfers. That will bring with it fewer awkward moments over 'club signings' as experienced under Tottenham's bigger name managers but it also opens the door to a lack of synchronicity with the squad.

Key to preventing that initially will be the relationship with Johan Lange, who worked with Frank briefly at Lyngby, and the two men both believe in the data-driven world of football, something Spurs have attempted to switch to in recent years.

Paratici, who exists less within that world, will continue for now to remain around for advice in a consultancy capacity in the background, likely remaining there until there is further clarity on the ongoing trial in Italy involving him and fellow former Juventus officials.

This is a chance for Lange to forge his longer term future beyond this summer's transfer window if he can provide Frank with the right tools. Much of that will in turn be dictated by what Tottenham can finance.

Tottenham are a club that have constantly changed beneath Levy even if the final product has rarely altered. The summer of 2025 has brought the biggest changes of the chairman's tenure with both men's and women's head coaches sacked within days of each other despite that trophy and parade for the former, major changes at a boardroom level and talk of potential investment finally arriving in the near future.

Ultimately, this needs to be the summer when Levy decides exactly what Tottenham Hotspur is and gives it everything. Otherwise, you should probably mark your calendars for an upcoming event in June 2027.

The appointment of Thomas Frank as head coach is certainly going to give Tottenham options heading into the 2025/26 season. The Dane has come in for so much praise during his time at Brentford and he is the pick of Daniel Levy and the Spurs board to replace Ange Postecoglou at the helm.

Brentford have never looked in danger of losing their Premier League status under Frank in their four years in the top flight, with the team pushing for Europe in the 2024/25 campaign. Due to the work he has done in west London, the 51-year-old always looked likely to move on from the Bees to take on a bigger job in football at some point in the future.

This summer will see Frank make the move across the capital to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The hope will be that he can take Tottenham on and compete for more trophies after Postecoglou guided them to the Europa League trophy last month.

During his two years in N17, the Australian often came in for criticism with many mentioning his unwillingness to shift from his attacking approach. Postecoglou did change things in his system, though, with Tottenham's performances away from home in the latter stages of the Europa League highlighting that it is not always all-out attack he plays as his side produced some outstanding defensive performances to get their hands on the trophy.

Whereas Postecoglou may be viewed as someone with only one way of playing, that cannot be said about Frank. The ex-Brondby boss is known for playing with a number of different formations and adapting to the teams his side are facing.

So how exactly could Tottenham line up under Frank from August onwards? football.london takes a look using Spurs' current squad.

Brentford mainly used a 4-2-3-1 setup last year to get the very best out of Mikkel Damsgaard. The Dane had struggled in his first two seasons in the Premier League but the decision to make him a focal point in the team saw him thrive in his attacking midfield role.

Tottenham have Dejan Kulusevski and James Maddison who are perfect for this role, leaving Frank with a big decision to make over the duo unless he can find a way to get both players in his team. Sticking with Postecoglou's preferred backline and a midfield two of Rodrigo Bentancur and Lucas Bergvall, Spurs can then have Brennan Johnson and Son Heung-min either side of whichever No.10 he opts for and Dominic Solanke leading the line.

One way of getting both Maddison and Kulusevski in would be to switch the latter to the wing, meaning Johnson would be the unfortunate one to miss out in this case.

The Bees also used a 4-3-3 formation quite a few times across the 2024/25 campaign. This allowed Frank to go with an eye-catching front three of Bryan Mbeumo, Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade.

Tottenham certainly have the players for the system as Johnson, Solanke and Son could all line up together. There are also players such as Richarlison, Wilson Odobert, Manor Solomon and Mathys Tel, providing he signs on this summer, as other options to form a fierce front three.

A midfield three would allow Frank to either go with one of Kulusevski or Maddison in the side or potentially both.

Frank does adapt his formation depending on which team he is coming up against and he has been known to switch to either a 5-3-2 or 3-5-2 formation. In either system, there would be a real onus on full-backs Pedro Porro, Destiny Udogie and Djed Spence playing a real attacking role for the team.

All three are excellent going forward, as we saw during Postecoglou's reign, and it would suit them down to the ground. In defence, Kevin Danso would come in to join Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven in the back three, with Radu Dragusin, Ben Davies and summer arrival Luka Vuskovic others to consider there.

As mentioned above, Frank could go with one of Kulusevski or Maddison or both in a midfield three. It would then be a question of who joins Solanke up front.

Son may be the man to play through the middle with him but there is also Richarlison to consider as he has excelled in that role in the past. Johnson and Tel are alternative options to play centrally as well.

Finally, 4-4-2 is another formation Frank used at Brentford during the season. That, though, would raise questions about where exactly Kulusevski and Maddison would fit into it.

Kulusevski, of course, could be used as a winger but he did excel playing centrally last season. If Son is to be played from the left, Richarlison could lead the line with Solanke.

Tottenham Hotspur will have an advantage over transfer rivals Manchester United in a race for Bournemouth star Antoine Semenyo this summer, if previous comments from the player himself are anything to go by.

Spurs are closing in on the appointment of Brentford manager Thomas Frank as their new head coach. The Dane will replace Ange Postecoglou at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium following the dismissal of the Australian last week.

While the appointment is not yet official, Spurs already seem to be working on transfer targets. Sky Sports have reported the club’s interest in Semenyo.

The 25-year-old scored 11 goals and provided a further six assists in 37 Premier League appearances in the season just gone. That has however prompted interest from other clubs.

The report adds that Spurs face competition from Man United for the forward , with Ruben Amorim being backed in the transfer window.

If the two clubs are involved in a transfer race for the Ghana international, then Spurs do have the advantage of playing European football in the next season. A 1-0 win over United in the Europa League final last month means that Champions League football will be back at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Speaking earlier this season, Semenyo opened up on his excitement on Bournemouth chasing Europe. “It's been such a good season,” he said, via the Daily Echo .

“Personally, for me, I've never played in a quarter final. I've never ever been in a situation where you're competing for Europe or trying to get European places.

“So for me personally, it's very, very new. I think as a team, I feel like we've got the potential, we've got the talent in the team, so it was never in doubt that we would start pushing up the table.”

Bournemouth eventually finished the campaign in ninth place in the table, meaning that there will be no European football for the club in the upcoming season. A 15th place finish for United means that there will also be no European football at Old Trafford.

The lure of playing in the Champions League is something that Spurs and Frank will be able to use to their advantage in any transfer race this summer.

Tottenham look set to make a quick managerial appointment with Thomas Frank in line to replace Ange Postecoglou in the hotseat. Amid Spurs' mixed form under the Australian during the 2024/25 campaign, Frank had been linked with the head coach position for quite some time.

It always appeared a matter of time before the Dane would take on one of the big jobs in the Premier League after establishing Brentford in the top flight. The Bees have not once looked in danger of going down in their four years in the Premier League and in the 2024/25 campaign his team did push for European football but ultimately fell short.

Frank will have European football to look forward to at Tottenham after the team qualified for the Champions League as a result of their Europa League triumph. He's also fully aware of the squad he is inheriting after dishing out the praise back in February following Tottenham's 2-0 win at the Gtech Community Stadium.

Spurs may have travelled to west London in a wretched run of form but they collected all three points courtesy of a Vitaly Janelt own goal and Pape Matar Sarr's late strike. Speaking in his post-match press conference, Frank namechecked a number of Tottenham players and even stated that Pedro Porro has similar qualities to Trent Alexander-Arnold.

“I think that is a big expectation," said Frank when asked if a sign of Brentford's progress is that they maybe were expected to beat Tottenham. "I know they have not had the best season, but if you look at their line-up, just take their front three, I think a lot of clubs would have taken them in a day.

“Their midfield – Dejan Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancur, Yves Bissouma – that is a very, very, very good Premier League midfield.

“And then I know they have not had a centre-back, maybe Archie Gray and Ben Davies played the best defensive game of the season. So, Pedro Porro is fantastic at right back, he has got Trent-ish offensive qualities and Djed Spence has done well.

“Kinksy, so we cannot expect… if we expect that, then there is something wrong with our fans. In the Premier League, it is difficult every game.”

Ange Postecoglou made it perfectly clear in February that he had not brought Mathys Tel to Tottenham for just six months. In need of a new attacking player in the January transfer window and having initially appeared to have missed out on the Frenchman, there was a late twist a matter of hours before the deadline with the 20-year-old agreeing to join Spurs on loan from Bayern Munich.

The agreement between both clubs contained an option for Tottenham to buy the versatile forward for £45.7million in the summer window. It was reported at the time that Tel had also agreed on a six-year contract if the move was to become permanent.

Quite whether that six-year contract does come to fruition now remains to be seen following Postecoglou's Tottenham exit and the likely arrival of Thomas Frank in his place. Already facing a big call over whether to activate the option, try to sign him for a reduced fee, negotiate another loan deal or move away from the deal altogether, Tel may no longer have a future in N17 after Daniel Levy decided to part with the Australian.

The ex-Rennes man featured regularly for the Lilywhites in the second half of the season and contributed with three goals and one assist in 20 games. He also ended his loan spell with a Europa League winners' medal in his possession after playing a part in their European journey.

Tottenham fans certainly didn't see the France Under-21 international at the very top of his game, instead seeing glimpses of his quality as he got used to Postecoglou's ways and life in the Premier League. Supporters would probably get a better idea of what Tel can offer the following season as he would have only benefitted from his four months in a Tottenham shirt.

Postecoglou was always aware of his qualities, explaining exactly why he wanted to talk to him and convince him to make the move to north London maybe amid some previous doubts. “It was sort of an exchange, conversation, messages, that lasted a couple of hours," said the Australian back in February

He then joked: “I felt that if I kept him on the phone long enough, I would wear him down. He was falling asleep by the end!

“I got a sense pretty early on that there was a connection there and he was hearing what he wanted to hear. It is a big decision. He is a 19-year-old man at a fantastic football club.

“They would have been quite happy to keep him there I am sure, but he also knew he needed to play. But not just play. Play where he is going to develop. I think it is a credit to him that, rather than just jump at what came at him, he was very thorough in the way he made his decision.”

Tel himself was asked about his chat with Postecoglou and he revealed why it was "positive" for him.

"I was in the barbers - one side was good and the other side was not really," explained the attacker. "He told me, 'Mathys, I think you are a good player for the team. You can bring some new energy, something special for the team. We need to win a lot of games.' This call was positive for me."

Tel was certainly lively in his Tottenham minutes but it didn't always translate into the goals and assists he wanted to bring to the team on a regular basis. It now remains to be seen if his Tottenham appearances will stop at 20 or there will be more to add next season and in the years ahead.

Postecoglou's exit may have changed things for the north London club in regards to the loan signing or they may want to press ahead and ensure he is still in N17 next season. With Frank in line to replace Postecoglou in the Spurs dugout, decisions over Tottenham's current squad and incoming transfers will all become clear in the weeks and months ahead.

For now, it probably is going to be a waiting game for Tel as well as Tottenham fans.

Tottenham Hotspur could be set for a busy summer transfer window based on the latest update.

Spurs are already searching for a new manager following the departure of Ange Postecoglou last week. Brentford boss Thomas Frank has emerged as the frontrunner on the rumour mill to replace Postecoglou as the next Tottenham manager.

Amid the speculation about a new manager, Tottenham are also active in the transfer market ahead of their return to the Champions League next season.

Sky Sports have reported that Spurs are showing an interest in signing Bournemouth star Antoine Semenyo.

The report claims that Tottenham are ramping up their efforts to sign Semenyo as they look to beat Manchester United to the forward's signature.

Semenyo has been heavily linked with a move away from the Vitality Stadium this summer after an impressive season at Bournemouth, with Tottenham and Man United mentioned as potential destinations. Liverpool have also been credited with an interest in signing Semenyo this summer.

The Ghana international scored 13 goals for the Cherries last season, 11 of which came in the Premier League. It's not just Semenyo that has seen Spurs battle Man United in the transfer market this summer.

Brentford forward Bryan Mbeumo has emerged as a target for both clubs, with reports stating that the Red Devils recently had a £55million bid rejected for the Bees forward.

Rumours linking Tottenham with appointing Frank as their new manager has also intensified the speculation that Mbeumo could join his boss in making the switch to North London.

It remains to be seen if Tottenham would have a genuine interest in signing both Semenyo and Mbeumo in the same transfer window. Spurs may have the added advantage over Man United, given they have Champions League football for next season, thanks to their victory over the Red Devils in last month's Europa League final.

Tottenham will have a new look about them come the start of the 2025/26 season following Ange Postecoglou's dismissal as head coach. On the second anniversary of taking on the Spurs hotseat, the Australian was sacked despite leading the club to Europa League glory just over a fortnight earlier.

Linked with a handful of managers in recent months as Postecoglou's future had been a talking point for quite some time, it is Thomas Frank of Brentford who looks set to replace him at the helm. The 51-year-old has come to the attention of many in recent years after establishing the Bees as a Premier League outfit following their promotion from the Championship in 2021.

Frank is highly regarded by his fellow managers and a step up to one of the Premier League's biggest teams was perhaps always a matter of time. Whereas Postecoglou arrives at clubs on his own and then finalises his coaching team once in position, Frank may well travel across the capital with his backroom staff if he is to sign on the dotted line at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

So who is he currently working with at Brentford? football.london takes a look below.

Kevin O'Connor - First team assistant coach

Kevin O'Connor is a name synonymous with Brentford after making 501 appearances for them as a player between 1999 and 2015. After retiring from the game, the 43-year-old took up a coaching position with Brentford's development squad before stepping up to become first team assistant coach to Frank in December 2018.

O'Connor is known to assist fellow assistant head coach Claus Norgaard with defensive training and he also helps out set-piece coach Keith Andrews with training drills.

Speaking to Hounslow Herald about working with Frank, he said: “He [Frank] has taught me so much about the game. I look at the game differently now. He's so into his fine details and structures and principles, and it's just opened my eyes up even more.

“I love working with him every day and his man-management. As a person, he's exactly as you see on the TV. There's no fakeness with him. He's straight. He's a family guy. If you need anything, he's there.”

Justin Cochrane - First team assistant coach

Frank taking on the Tottenham hotseat could potentially see Justin Cochrane return to N17 if he is to follow the Dane. However, the highly-rated coach may well stay in west London as he is currently odds-on with the bookmakers to replace Frank as Brentford boss.

Cochrane was previously a youth team coach at Tottenham for a number of years and held positions with the Under-11s, U12s, U14s, U16s and then the U23s. He was offered the chance to work with England in 2018, working as head coach of the U15s, U16s and U17s sides.

After spells with AFC Wimbledon and Manchester United, where he was head of player development and coaching for one year, he made the move to Brentford as first team assistant coach in the summer of 2022. In February 2025, the 43-year-old joined Thomas Tuchel's England coaching staff in an additional role to his position at Brentford.

Claus Norgaard - First team assistant coach

Norgaard has a long association with Frank, with his position at Brentford the third time he has worked as assistant to his fellow countryman. Prior to making the move to west London in December 2022 following Brien Riemer's switch to become Anderlecht head coach, Norgaard had worked at Brondby and with Denmark's U16s, U18s and U20s before taking on a couple of other positions.

Speaking to Brentford's matchday programme in April 2023, he outlined his work under Frank at the Gtech Community Stadium.

"I'm in pretty much the same role as Brian [Riemer],” he explained. "Me and Kevin [O'Connor] are more in charge of the defensive work, defensive set-pieces; Justin [Cochrane] and Thomas are more aware of the offensive part.

"And then we of course have Bernardo [Cueva] on the offensive set-pieces, which is a very important role as well. But it's not like I only have the defensive side and then the other guys don't look at that - Thomas has his hands on everything.

"It’s not like we are just sitting in each corner of the room! We are together, everybody is bringing ideas. If Justin has something on the defensive side, he’ll bring it to the table, and we’ll discuss it.

"But in the training and in the video talks and in the meetings, I'm responsible for making sure all the details are how we want them, and the focus is how we want it.

"In general, as a person, I'm a little bit more defensive-minded than Thomas is. So, if we have a drill on the pitch and we play nine v nine, me and Kevin are more focused on the defensive side and Justin and Thomas are more on the offensive side."

Manu Sotelo - First team goalkeeping coach

Manu Sotelo is the first team goalkeeping coach for Brentford. Joining the Bees in August 2020, the Spaniard has worked with the likes of David Raya, Mark Flekken and Thomas Strakosha during his time at the club.

Keith Andrews - Set-piece coach

Andrews may be a familiar figure to some Tottenham fans due to his football career and work as a Sky Sports pundit. The former midfielder joined the Bees last summer as set-piece coach following his previous role on Sheffield United's coaching staff.

Brentford did catch the headlines in the opening months of last season by scoring inside the opening 40 seconds of three successive Premier League games, one of which came against Tottenham. Brentford's fast starts all came from Andrews' work, which duly saw him praised by Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher.

The Bees were a real threat from set-pieces in the 2024/25 campaign - scoring 13 times - and Andrews was hailed by his boss after their 2-1 win at Bournemouth in March.

"Keith is doing a very good job, the players are doing a very good job and the coaching is very good. Set-pieces are crucial and they won us the game today," Frank told Sky Sports (via beIN SPORTS).

Tottenham themselves were causing huge issues from set-pieces when Gianni Vio was working for the club and the same may apply again if Frank is appointed as boss and Andrews makes the journey across the capital with him.

Chris Haslam - Head of athletic performance

Chris Haslam has been with Brentford for a period of time across two separate spells. Previously working as head of conditioning with the club's youngsters up until his departure in 2014, he returned in the 2015/16 season and worked with the U21s before stepping up to his current role of head of athletic performance.

He is responsible for all aspects of physical performance, sports science and the integration of the club's specialists. Haslam does not only work with the first team as his position also covers work with the B team as well.

Off the pitch, Tottenham Hotspur have been one of Europe’s best when it comes to business strategy in recent years.

The move to a new stadium in 2019 might have come with a £1.2bn build cost and lumbered them with some £850m-plus worth of debt, but it is an asset that will pay dividends for the club each year through additional matchday and commercial revenue, as well as the ability to generate huge sums from hosting the likes of the NFL each season and some of the biggest acts in music and sport.

They are well positioned to be able to invest in the playing side of the club for the long term and have little concerns when it comes to the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules (PSR). They have the lowest wages to revenue ratio in the Premier League and are in a strong position to withstand any decline in broadcast revenues that may come over the next decade, with clubs knowing that they have to reduce their reliance on that particular revenue pillar in light of some challenging times ahead on that front as traditional broadcasters battle with dwindling subscribers and upstart streamers.

All well and good. But one area where the club have been profligate and fallen well below many of their rivals is that of getting strategy right when it comes to the man at the helm of football operations, the manager/head coach.

Ange Postecoglou may have won the Europa League last month and, with it, booked Champions League football for next season for Spurs, but the dismal Premier League performance of last season, where the club finished 17th having lost 22 games, meant that the Aussie paid the price and was sacked last week.

It was a decision that had been expected, even with the trophy success, but it requires more money to be shelled out by Spurs for what will be perceived as a failed appointment, with Postecoglou set to receive a settlement around £4m.

That sum follows the £4m sum that was paid out to Antonio Conte, Postecoglou’s predecessor, in 2023, with major payouts received by Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho and Nuno Espirito Santo before him. There have been plenty of expensive mistakes made by chairman Daniel Levy and the decision makers at the club that have eaten into the Spurs bottom line since Pochettino’s departure in 2019.

The exit of Postecoglou before the end of his contract takes Spurs’ spending on sacking managers to just over £50m in the last six years. That is the price for failure, and also the price for a lack of strategy and continuity.

It makes sense, then, that Spurs have looked towards Thomas Frank at Brentford, a manager who has been at the helm of the Bees since 2018, lasting through the tenures of Pochettino, Mourinho, Nuno, Conte and Postecoglou at Spurs.

Brentford, like teams like Brighton & Hove Albion, have been lauded for their football strategy, and Frank has been a big part of that. The Bees finding the right man for the strategy as opposed to jumping from one kind of manager to another has meant that they have avoided taking a major bath financially when it comes to severance payments. The same could be said for the likes of Liverpool, who haven’t had to pay to sack a manager since Brendan Rodgers in 2016. That comes with knowing the identity of the team and its structure, not finding a quick route to success.

Maybe Frank provides that, if, indeed, he does end up being the man for the club long term. But they will need to learn lessons from their £50m headache, and from a manager who allowed his current employers to avoid such financial pain.

Tottenham are closing in on appointing Thomas Frank as their new head coach. Spurs have been looking for a successor to Ange Postecoglou after the Aussie was sacked on Friday.

The north London club confirmed in a statement that Postecoglou had been relieved of his duties "following a review of performances and after significant reflection".

They added: "It is crucial that we are able to compete on multiple fronts and believe a change of approach will give us the strongest chance for the coming season and beyond."

Postecoglou's dismissal came just 16 days after he guided Tottenham to their first major piece of silverware in 17 years. Spurs beat Manchester United to win the Europa League.

However, Tottenham's form in the Premier League flattered to deceive. In fact, Spurs finished 17th in the top flight, their lowest finish since 1976/77, after losing 22 of their 38 fixtures.

Brentford manager Frank has emerged as the leading contender to replace Postecoglou and a deal is said to be close. So, with this in mind, football.london has taken a look at the latest regarding a move to appoint Frank as Tottenham's new head coach ahead of the 2025/26 season...

Verbal agreement

According to talkSPORT, Thomas Frank has 'verbally agreed terms' with Tottenham. The 51-year-old has made his decision to leave Brentford after seven years and make the move across London to Spurs.

But a deal is subject to his release clause being triggered. Frank has a £10million exit fee inserted into his Brentford contract and that is the amount it's going to take to get him from the Bees this summer.

Deal close

The Telegraph have reported that progress has been made in the last 24 hours over Tottenham's proposed deal to appoint Thomas Frank as their new head coach.

There is now 'positivity and optimism' at Spurs that a move for Frank, who is believed to want take a number of his Brentford backroom team with him, can be struck.

Tottenham technical director Johan Lange is said to be close to Frank, having shared shared an office with him at Danish club Lyngby, and is spearheading the club's bid to replace Postecoglou.

It's added that Tottenham are now on the verge to securing Frank's services and getting him in place for pre-season and their return to the Champions League.

£10m release clause

Tottenham believe that paying £10m to get Thomas Frank from Brentford is going to be worth it, according to Football Insider. Spurs are confident he is the man to take them to that next level.

There was fear that Frank's release clause could become a sticking point but Tottenham are not concerned about the figure they are having to stump for the Danish coach.