Tottenham Hotspur will have to prepare for yet another "new era" at the club after the Lilywhites unceremoniously dumped Ange Postecoglou onto the unemployment line on Friday night weeks after he had brought them the Europa League title.
Postecoglou won't remain unemployed for long, and it doesn't look like Spurs will have a vacant manager's seat for long either. They have been accelerating their interest in Thomas Frank, who, by all accounts, looks like the clear best option available due to his track record of success at Brentford and, in all honesty, improved tactical ideas in comparison to Postecoglou.
With Frank, there's a real hope among Tottenham supporters that the Brentford coach will be able to convince his star man Bryan Mbeumo to jump ship with him in North London instead of going to Manchester United. Although Tottenham have showed legitimate interest in the 25-year-old breakout right winger, Mbeumo made it clear that Man United is where he wants to go.
As Manchester United continue to haggle with Brentford over the final asking price, Tottenham could swoop in and make a change if they are able to hire a new manager soon enough and if that manager is both willing and able to convince Mbeumo to change course. After all, Spurs did beat Man United in the Europa League Final.
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According to a report from The Mirror's Darren Lewis, Frank has told Tottenham during his talks to become the club's next manager that he is indeed interested in trying to bring Mbeumo to Spurs. He is hoping to take Mbeumo with him from Brentford as a centerpiece player for his project at Tottenham and wants Spurs to pay the roughly 60 million pounds it would take to sign him.
Mbeumo won't come cheap, but he shouldn't either. Brentford and Frank turned Mbeumo into a machine on the wing, as he scored 20 goals with 7 assists to rival all the best players in the Premier League in terms of importance to his team and overall attacking output.
He is fully legit. Mbeumo can score goals from anywhere and turn just about any situation in or around the box into a dangerous one. He is a special athlete, a solid dribbler and progressor, and an underrated creator all while being as good of a goal threat as most strikers in the Premier League.
Whether or not Frank can actually convince Mbeumo to join, let alone Daniel Levy to spend, is another thing entirely, but perhaps both of those parties can give him some assurances before a move to Tottenham is complete for the Brentford manager. But at least he's willing to try, and Tottenham need to start signing players the caliber of Mbeumo in order to truly compete.