‘I have left a big piece of my heart at Brentford’, says new Spurs boss

Thomas Frank said on Friday he had “left a gargantuan fragment of my heart” at Brentford after taking on the daunting job of reviving Tottenham’s Premier League fortunes.
Spurs announced the Dane as their recent head coach on a three-year deal on Thursday, as a substitute for the sacked Ange Postecoglou.
Frank, 51, acquired 136 of his 317 fits across a seven-year spell at Brentford, taking them into the Premier League in 2021.
In an emotional message posted on Brentford’s web page Frank said: “The time has come for me to transfer on. But, at the same time as I move, I know I absorb left a gargantuan fragment of my heart at Brentford, now not true at the soccer club however with the community and, clearly, the implausible and real supporters.
“I are searching for to develop my profound gratitude to the club for giving me the possibility to pursue my targets and for all people alive to who made the budge this form of memorable one.”
He said it had been a privilege to be allowed to be fraction of this form of “particular community”.
“No topic we absorb accomplished, we absorb accomplished together, and our success is built on cohesion, spirit, courage and ambition at every level of the club and amongst the followers,” he said.
“All people has contributed, and every contribution has been invaluable. I'm now not true leaving a soccer club, I am pronouncing goodbye to guests whose pork up by true and scandalous times I will elevate with me constantly.”
Frank, who turns into Tottenham’s fourth everlasting boss since 2021, is tasked with lifting the club aid among the Premier League’s elite.
Spurs will play in the Champions League subsequent season thanks to their Europa League success in Bilbao, the put apart they beat Manchester United 1-0 in the final.
Their first European trophy for 41 years delivered on Postecoglou’s boast that he constantly wins silverware in his 2d season.
Nonetheless, the Australian paid the worth for a miserable Premier League season whereby Tottenham done 17th after losing 22 of their 38 video games.
Tottenham done seven places and 18 functions below Frank’s Brentford.