So far, only one Tottenham Hotspur player has been confirmed at the 2026 World Cup, as young center midfielder Lucas Bergvall has been announced in the Sweden national team squad at the same time that Dejan Kulusevski's absence has been confirmed due to injury. With so many players struck with serious injuries at Tottenham, there will be fewer Spurs stars than ever at the World Cup - plus, it doesn't help that Spurs have been so bad this season they are in a Premier League relegation fight.
But as Spurs supporters await who else they could be watching this summer from their beloved team besides the highly talented and promising Bergvall, they have just learned that two former managers will be present at the World Cup. They won't be managing, no, but they will be ever present voices on the panels and the broadcast.
The beloved Ange Postecoglou was made for television and has been excellent as a pundit since taking a break from coaching after Spurs dismissed him in 2025. He will be on the World Cup broadcast this summer for ITV.
Two Tottenham managers will be pundits this summer
Meanwhile, his replacement as Tottenham Hotspur manager, Thomas Frank, will also be on the broadcast for rivaling network BBC. Now, it would have probably been poor form to have Frank and Postecoglou on the same network, mostly because Big Ange would eviscerate him on a live mic, but it will be nonetheless entertaining to think of the two as sparring rival commentators.
Even though Ange Postecoglou was not a flawless manager, Spurs supporters would clearly prefer him to Thomas Frank. He was charismatic, played pleasing football, and won the Europa League. Frank turned Spurs into relegation fodder and had Tottenham playing like a coward.
But what's wild is how much worse Frank will be than Postecoglou as a commentator. Nobody listening to Frank's press conferences - including dropping gems like how Spurs should expect to lose half their games (and somehow he was losing more than that by the end) - would ever think he was made for television. He seems like a nice guy, as incompetent as he was as a manager, and he may as well have paint drying on the broadcast.
Meanwhile, Postecoglou is personable and entertaining. The clash of styles will be very interesting to watch at the World Cup, and Tottenham fans will be curious to hear if either of them drop nuggets of wisdom from behind the scenes when they were coaching Spurs or of the players they used to coach or manage against.
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