Thomas Frank is no longer manager of Tottenham Hotspur; but who will replace him in the job?
Thomas Frank is no longer manager of Tottenham Hotspur; but who will replace him in the job?
Here are the top 10 (well, 12) candidates to replace him at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, according to the latest odds from Oddschecker.
10=) Harry Redknapp
There genuinely is a case that what Spurs need right now is a big personality to go in there and tell them all they’re triffic top, top footballers. But at the same time it can’t actually be Redknapp, can it? Because it’s just too silly.
10=) Ryan Mason
He Knows The Club and he is Out Of Work after leaving West Brom. He could absolutely be brought in for his Spurs DNA qualifications despite failing in the Championship, because football.
10=) Marco Silva
Having recruited from the middle reaches of the Premier League once to disastrous effect, what are the chances that they go again? Also, Marco Silva and Fulham should be joined together forever and never to part.
8=) Ange Postecoglou
If he can recreate the form from the first 10 Premier League games when he turned up initially, then why not? The most obvious answer here of course being that he wouldn’t do that. Stop being silly.
8=) Oliver Glasner
Definitely leaving Crystal Palace at the end of the season and very possibly leaving Crystal Palace before that. The reasons Spurs would be interested are obvious, but so are the reasons for caution. Is another underdog manager really what they want or need at this time? Especially with Palace currently being the one club that looks as conspicuously miserable and wretched as Spurs, who they have joined in the relegation fight.
There is a certain appeal in the idea of Glasner flouncing out of Palace in a huff at the board’s failure to back the football side of operations sufficiently, only to then rock up immediately at Tottenham.
7) Edin Terzic
A viable candidate due to his having been out of work since leaving Borussia Dortmund at the end of the 2023/24 season. That remains Terzic’s only senior management role, and it probably should have delivered him a Champions League winner’s medal.
Would he take the job for a few months of hassle keeping Spurs up while warming the seat for a more permanent appointment? Like…
6) Mauricio Pochettino
There is a reasonable argument that just doing something, anything to improve the honking vibes at the club could be enough, and Pochettino’s return would be the ultimate vibes move. Only concerns here, and they’re big ones: a) it would almost certainly end in disaster and b) it’s off the table until at least after the World Cup, by which time it really might all be too late.
Unless Poch tells Trump where to stick his peace prize and leaves now, four months before the tournament. Which would be absolutely magnificent and hilarious but sadly belongs only in the realms of fantasy.
4=) John Heitinga
This market pays out on a caretaker boss after 10 games so there is a decent chance that the Dutchman, recently and conveniently bussed in as Frank’s ‘assistant’, does a Michael Carrick before Pochettino et al become available in the summer. But is an interim a luxury relegation-haunted Spurs still have?
What we can already say with confidence 48 hours into Spurs’ latest manager search is that a Heitinga interim stint isn’t Plan A; if it was, it would already have happened. So if it does happen…
4=) Robbie Keane
Has shown a bit of gumption by managing in Israel and then Hungary with some success and obviously has all the club DNA you could possibly want. But does he have the gumption to take on Tottenham? It features high on our list of possible next steps, for what it’s worth.
3) Roberto De Zerbi
Has always felt inevitable that Brighton wouldn’t remain his only Premier League sojourn. And now he has left Marseille, he is one of the best available managers. And it kind of feels like a fit in more ways than its apparent serendipitous convenience.
But he’s drifted significantly since being an early connect-the-dots odds-on favourite in the hours immediately after Frank’s demise.
2) Igor Tudor
With Spurs leaning towards bringing in an interim coach before considering their options in the summer, Tudor has come into the picture following his own sacking by Juventus in October.
Spurs are basically looking specifically at free agents here, so someone who has lasted three and seven months respectively in his last two posts does technically fit the bill.
But Tudor also once resigned at Marseille due to “tiredness” with the club, which doesn’t augur well for even just a handful of games in charge of Spurs.
1) Marco Rose
That’s the good stuff. This is the sort of thing you don’t get with so many of your modern sackings where even the most tinpot of clubs have managed to get their managerial ducks in a row before binning the previous fool. None of that sort of thing for Spurs, who seemingly had no actual plan in place when sacking a man who for some reason they didn’t even really want to sack.
Where does that leave you? With former RB Leipzig manager Marco Rose coming from absolutely nowhere to clear favourite in a few short hours nine days before the North London Derby. Tremendous.
