It is nearly impossible to find anyone who watches Tottenham Hotspur every week who actually feels any bit sorry for Thomas Frank, though you can leave it up a club as ghoulishly incompetent as this one to give supporters an ounce of pity for the most badly underperforming manager in all of European football.
Frank bears a lot of the blame for Tottenham dropping points like it were some sort of a deadly contagion. Spurs play a cowardly bland of football that is as unappetizing to watch as it is ineffective, and Frank is the grand architect of this defensive style of play that even Brentford - who, by the way, are better without him - would shudder at. And yet after every defeat, Frank tries to lie through his teeth and tell reporters that Spurs are playing well, as if anyone, let alone himself, would believe such a delusional assertion.
Tottenham have been ravaged by injuries, which certainly does not help, and the club has not signed players at key areas of need. Now, Frank could still be doing a lot better with the players he has at his disposal, actively holding back highly impressive young stars like Mathys Tel and Pape Matar Sarr for absolutely no good reason.
Tottenham are a joke
Yet after watching the entirety of that embarrassing winter transfer market unfold, it is hard not to help but feel that Thomas Frank has been equally screwed over by an atrocious front office brass that is more interested in the idea of printing money from a football club than winning - not knowing that losing and relegation would undo their entire theoretical enterprise.
Tottenham Hotspur needed a forward. They signed not one single attacking player despite getting even thinner up front with the sale of Brennan Johnson and the serious injury to their best attacking player, winger Mohammed Kudus.
Tottenham needed a playmaking midfielder from deep. They signed Conor Gallagher after the Rodrigo Bentancur, watched Lucas Bergvall fall with another multi month injury, and then proceeded to do precisely nothing else.
It was a disaster class of a transfer window, and with Frank treading water and nearly getting sacked, Spurs did nothing to help the coach battle out of this. Frank was saying all throughout the last couple of months, as politely as the Dane could possibly pound the table, that Spurs needed new players. Tottenham management failed him, because they do not care if he survives or is fired. They do not care about anything. The greedy buffoons want one thing above all else and that is their pockets lined with grease.