REPORT: Tottenham board considering Frank sack, discussions today

Key Highlights

• The Board is expected to have further meetings today that could impact what happens next. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementDelaney also speaks, on background naturally, of board members who are cognizant that Frank has had a somewhat dysfunctional system in front of him since coming on, and that some members of the board want to give him every chance to turn things around.
• Those members are also cognizant that Spurs can still qualify for the top eight of the Champions League and fear a sudden change could endanger that. I’ve said what I wanted to say about Thomas Frank and saying more would just be retreading over old ground, but I do find it interesting that, for all of Vinai Venkatesham’s exhortations about building a “nimble” club executive structure, yesterday’s loss and the backlash has seemingly caught them flat-footed.
• The fact that they don’t even have a plan to replace Frank when things continued to go sideways is, frankly, astounding.
• (Pun very much intended)This might not be an accurate representation of what’s going on — I have no idea, I’m not a fly on the wall in the executive boardroom.
• Maybe they’ve put some feelers out, but everything I’m reading seems to suggest that they had no idea they might have to pull the plug on the Thomas Frank project earlier than expected.