Tottenham Hotspur don't have time to waste after hiring Thomas Frank as their next manager, because they have to get right to business with signing starting-caliber players who can help Spurs compete in the Champions League next season and continue to consistently qualify for the competition year in and year out while building to something even stronger than that.
Even before Frank's arrival, Tottenham had already identified Brentford breakout right winger Bryan Mbeumo has one of their priority transfer targets, as the 25-year-old scored 20 goals with 7 assists under Frank last season to establish himself as one of the best Premier League forwards.
Although Mbeumo initially gave his preference to Manchester United and began transfer negotiations with Ruben Amorim's side a week ago, Spurs were holding out hope for the attacker to change his mind after the Frank hiring and give Tottenham more preference. ESPN's Rob Dawson recently stated that Manchester United were not worried about losing ground to Tottenham in the Mbeumo transfer race after he apparently gave the club assurances of his desire to move to Old Trafford.
Bryan Mbeumo is reconsidering Manchester United over Tottenham
However, it looks like things have already turned in Tottenham's favor. According to a report from Sky Sports's Lyall Thomas, Mbeumo is now more interested in a move to Tottenham, and he and Spurs have actually begun negotiations. Tottenham themselves now feel more encouraged about their chances of signing Mbeumo.
Frank's appointment has clearly helped Tottenham in this case, because there's no way Mbeumo would have ever considered changing his mind or giving Spurs this amount of leeway if it weren't for them hiring his former coach. Players following managers is a real thing in football, and it makes even more sense for someone like Mbeumo to follow Frank when the latter's tactical ideas and management helped shape the former's rise to stardom considerably.
It also helps that Tottenham are a massive club in their own right and have just secured Champions League football after beating Manchester United in the Europa League Final to avenge the fact that they finished a lowly 17th in the Premier League (to Man United's 16th). Man United aren't the powerhouse they used to be, and while there is prestige in joining the likes of Bruno Fernandes and Matheus Cunha to right the ship under Amorim, perhaps those positives don't outweigh being a centerpiece player at Tottenham under Frank.
This news isn't anywhere close to an official confirmation of Mbeumo to Tottenham, but it feels significant enough to be the first domino to fall in a change of events that brings the top-class Premier League goal-scoring winger to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2025.