{"id":420189,"date":"2026-01-18T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:00:15","slug":"frank-on-the-brink-of-sack-as-tottenham-chiefs-make-u-turn-after-defeat-to-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420189\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank ‘on the brink’ of sack as Tottenham chiefs make U-turn after defeat to West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham chiefs are now \u201cweighing up a change\u201d of manager after Thomas Frank was serenaded with \u201csacked in the morning\u201d chants in Spurs\u2019 2-1 defeat to West Ham on Saturday.<\/p>\n

El Sackico<\/a> saw Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo emerge triumphant to end a 10-game winless run for the Hammers and pile the pressure on Frank.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: F365\u2019s 3pm Blackout: Frank sack imminent and Slot not far behind as Liverpool make unwelcome history<\/a><\/p>\n

Crysencio Summerville opened the scoring for the visitors, who caused Tottenham serious problems throughout, and although Cristian Romero levelled for the hosts, Callum Wilson pounced on a Guglielmo Vicario error in stoppage time to claim all three points.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the sixth game Spurs have lost at home in the Premier League this season \u2013 Frank\u2019s debut campaign \u2013 and means they now sit 14th in the table, almost as close to the relegation zone (10 points) as the top four (9 points).<\/p>\n

And The Times now claim Frank is \u2018on the brink\u2019 of being sacked by Tottenham<\/a>, adding that while \u2018the hierarchy has been keen to give him time they are now understood to be weighing up a change\u2019 in the dugout.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I\u2019ve probably had better times, it\u2019s probably not the best time,\u201d Frank said, when asked about the fans calling for his head<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I understand, I\u2019m the man in charge. So the blame will go to me. That\u2019s fair, no problem in that sense. As long as they are backing the players, doing everything they can to support them and drive them forward, that\u2019s what we do, and we will keep going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Premier League sack race: Slot not far behind Nuno and Frank in a grim race to the bottom<\/a><\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIf you\u2019re not winning enough, we know you will not get enough support from the fans. But when we\u2019re winning, it will change, when we start winning again. Which we will do. I\u2019m not in doubt of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think also you can look a little bit at the performances. Let\u2019s say the Bournemouth and Villa and this game here, if the players stop running, or stop doing anything, or not working hard, and we are not the team that\u2019s closest to winning, then you can say OK. But I think the team is working very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham chiefs are now \u201cweighing up a change\u201d of manager after Thomas Frank was serenaded with \u201csacked in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[585,43,44,1614,41,39,42,40,10988,13852],"class_list":["post-420189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-front-page","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}