they subsided to a 3-0 loss<\/a>.<\/p>\nFrank is acutely aware of the size of the challenge and yet he is fortified when he remembers how he drove improvement at Br\u00f8ndby, his first job as a club manager which he began in 2013, and Brentford where he took over in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Br\u00f8ndby, I didn\u2019t win the first eight games and then we were unbeaten in nine,\u201d he said. \u201cAt Brentford, we lost eight out of 10 games and then we were unbeaten in 10. So I am convinced we will see a similar pattern here. I\u2019m not in doubt of that. Because I know how to make a competitive team. We will make a very competitive team here, as well.<\/p>\n
Thomas Frank tries to lift his players after their dismal defeat at Nottingham Forest. Photograph: Visionhaus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat makes it even more complex here is the amount of games we are playing \u2026 with rotations, and physical load and mental load that just impact a team and especially if it\u2019s not used to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frank, who has made it his mission to instil greater resilience, was asked whether losing can become a habit. \u201cI definitely think there are habits that can go both ways,\u201d he replied. \u201cThere are good habits and bad habits and, of course, winning is a good habit and losing is a bad habit.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut underneath that are the habits of every staff member, every player. How do you react when there are setbacks in games? That is something we are really working very, very hard on. There are bits that are going the right way [in this area] but we are not consistent enough to do that every third or fourth day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s small bits and good habits for a player. You want a player to do recovery runs 10 out of 10 times and he does it five out of 10 times. He won\u2019t do it like this [Frank clicks his fingers] and then he\u2019s doing it 10 out of 10 times. It will maybe be five and a half, six, six and a half, seven. That\u2019s how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frank has said he is working \u201c24-7\u201d in the hunt for solutions and never in his life has he thought more about the game. \u201cThe good thing is I\u2019ve always been a good sleeper so that\u2019s helpful,\u201d he said. \u201cBut of course you can feel that the thoughts are just underneath you. We\u2019ve all experienced that with work. Probably you guys in your job [in the media] \u2026 there are nights where underlying there are these thoughts going on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been there a long time [for me] because there\u2019s a lot of things to sort out. When you get small setbacks and don\u2019t get the right response you try something new or you stick to it. So that\u2019s the bit. It\u2019s normal. It\u2019s not the first time in my career I haven\u2019t found the team instantly but it\u2019s coming over time. I know it will come. Probably sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank is convinced the story from his previous clubs will repeat itself at Tottenham \u2013 with unconvincing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-372870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}