{"id":340824,"date":"2025-12-29T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:53:09","slug":"spurs-boss-frank-on-transfer-speculation-injury-update-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340824\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs boss Frank on transfer speculation, injury update and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank has confirmed his intention to keep Brennan Johnson at the club amidst speculation of a January exit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hayters.com\/spurs-stars-look-back-on-rollercoaster-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Welsh international was a key player for Spurs last season<\/a> and was the club\u2019s top scorer in the league. However, he has struggled to establish himself under <a href=\"https:\/\/hayters.com\/thomas-frank-tottenham-hotspur-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new boss Frank this campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think Brennan is very important for us,\u201d Frank answered when asked if he would like to keep the winger in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe he didn\u2019t get many minutes, but unfortunately we can only play 11 players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke about it before with Mo (Kudus), he\u2019s come in and put his stamp on that right-winger position. Then the left, we tried different solutions, still started quite a few games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Brennan is an important player for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hayters.com\/spurs-star-fit-to-face-nottingham-forest-says-frank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Tottenham boss also updated on the fitness<\/a> of Lucas Bergvall, after the 19-year-old was forced off against Crystal Palace. \u201cYeah, I hope so (that he is able to play the next game). Of course, we\u2019ll assess him tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Bergvall\u2019s withdrawal, Spurs held on to their advantage to beat Crystal Palace 1-0 at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hayters.com\/frank-after-dreadful-defeat-to-nottingham-forest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Danish coach reflected<\/a>: \u201cI really like the desire, the mentality in the team, and the character and the resilience of the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something I said and spoke about a lot, that it\u2019s so important that we have that resilience in the team, because in a long Premier League season, you know, you need to go to a very difficult away ground here and fight, have character, get a clean sheet, win 1-0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that was a massive win in many ways. Was it a top performance? No. Is there things we can improve? Yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only goal of the game came from Archie Gray. It was the 19-year-old\u2019s first goal in senior football.<\/p>\n<p>His manager insisted: \u201cYeah, definitely Archie is growing. He shows why he has got very good potential in many ways. I think it\u2019s another fine performance overall today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalking about resilience, he made the mistake in the Nottingham game, played another good game against Liverpool, growing as a young man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can just see he was alert. I love that goal, because he was alert. He\u2019s seeing where the ball will land, and he\u2019s ready on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank has confirmed his intention to keep Brennan Johnson at the club amidst speculation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-340824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}