{"id":447715,"date":"2026-01-30T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447715\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:40:07","slug":"tottenham-boss-thomas-frank-on-trying-to-sign-semenyo-transfer-market-not-like-football-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447715\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham boss Thomas Frank on trying to sign Semenyo – transfer market ‘not like Football Manager’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank took over as Tottenham<\/a> boss from Ange Postecoglou in June last year, signing a contract with the north London club until 2028. <\/p>\n

He has come under increasing pressure during his first season at Spurs, with the club 14th in the Premier League table and without a top-flight win in five games. There have been boos by supporters in recent home matches and also chants for Frank to be sacked. <\/p>\n

However, Wednesday’s win at Eintracht Frankfurt confirmed a top-eight finish in the Champions League table to secure an automatic place in the last 16. <\/p>\n

Frank is missing eight senior players through injury for Sunday’s visit of Manchester City<\/a> and the Dane said that makes his squad weaker than it was when the January transfer window opened. <\/p>\n

But he does not want to become “obsessed with a short-term fix” because “that’s not helping in the long term”.<\/p>\n

Frank said there could be a “big summer ahead” for Spurs with improvements to his squad, but added the realities of the transfer market are far more complex. <\/p>\n

“The fans just want the best for the club, just like I, the owners, the staff, the players. Everyone wants the best for the club. <\/p>\n

“But the transfer window is not Football Manager, unfortunately. It is not. It would be a lot easier, but also a little bit more boring. <\/p>\n

“We would not have as many good stories to talk about.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank took over as Tottenham boss from Ange Postecoglou in June last year, signing a contract with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-447715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447715","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=447715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}