{"id":380259,"date":"2026-01-20T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380259\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:22:10","slug":"boss-enrages-tottenham-star-who-now-wants-to-leave-in-final-act-before-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380259\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss enrages Tottenham star who now wants to leave in final act before axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tottenham star is now desperate to leave and is the dream target of one specific club this month after Thomas Frank snubbed the player in what will likely be one of his final acts as Spurs manager before being sacked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tag\/thomas-frank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank<\/a> is on perilously thin ice at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a>, with David Ornstein confirming over the past 36 hours it\u2019s a matter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\/thomas-frank-sack-certain-david-ornstein-stunning-spurs-revelations-pochettino-return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwhen and not if\u201d<\/a> the Dane is sacked.<\/p>\n<p>The fans have turned, as have key members of the club\u2019s hierarchy. Frustratingly for Frank, Ornstein also confirmed several Tottenham players have also had enough of the under-fire boss.<\/p>\n<p>Frank will still be in charge for Tottenham\u2019s Champions League clash with Borussia Dortmund tonight, though all bets are off beyond that encounter, especially if they don\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>And according to three separate sources, Frank has angered a recent Tottenham signing in the build-up to the Dortmund game.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday, Frank confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tag\/mathys-tel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathys Tel<\/a> has been left out of Tottenham\u2019s Champions League squad for the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Tel was also omitted from Spurs\u2019 squad for the UCL in the first half of the campaign before ultimately earning a reprieve after Dominic Solanke suffered a lengthy injury.<\/p>\n<p>But with Solanke now back to full fitness, he has taken the spot Tel otherwise would have assumed. The decision to snub the \u00a330m summer signing has gone down like a lead balloon with he and his camp.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X, all three of Fabrizio Romano, Ben Jacobs and Florian Plettenberg confirmed Tel has reacted badly to the omission.<\/p>\n<p>Tel was already weighing up his exit options, with Ligue 1 side Paris FC \u2013 not to be confused with PSG \u2013 exploring a loan deal. But on the back of the Champions League snub, Tel will now push even harder to leave. He believes that with regular game-time he can make France\u2019s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2013278595083284736\" target=\"_blank\">Romano wrote<\/a>: \u201cTottenham manager Thomas Frank excludes again Mathys Tel from Champions League squad list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrank makes space for Dominic Solanke and the only way was to remove Tel. The French striker and his camp, not happy at all with the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JacobsBen\/status\/2013280326441746512\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobs stated<\/a>: \u201cMathys Tel omitted from Tottenham\u2019s Champions League squad for second time this season despite starting the last four games under Thomas Frank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTel is understood to be surprised and disheartened. Dominic Solanke comes in to replace him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/2013336954335646025\" target=\"_blank\">Plettenberg added<\/a>: \u201cMathys Tel remain the absolute dream transfer target for Paris FC until Deadline Day. Tel still wants to leave Tottenham, as revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdin Dzeko is also on the list, but Tel is internally ranked as the clear number one priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another reason Tel is believed to want out of Tottenham is the club\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\/secret-reason-mathys-tel-wants-out-spurs-revealed-paris-pitch-tempting-selling-point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reluctance to play him in his favoured striker position<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the event, Frank is sacked, the recently-hired John Heitinga would be an obvious choice to assume control in an interim capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Looking further into the future, TEAMtalk understands Andoni Iraola, Oliver Glasner and Mauricio Pochettino are on Spurs\u2019 radar, though none are likely to be available until the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Tentative approaches to Xabi Alonso who recently left Real Madrid were made, but Alonso has shown little willingness to take charge at Spurs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Want more breaking transfer lines from original sources? Add TEAMtalk <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=teamtalk.com\" target=\"_blank\">as a preferred source on Google <\/a>to your favourites list for news you can trust.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Tottenham news \u2013 Van de Ven\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In other news,\u00a0Tottenham are facing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\/spurs-micky-van-de-ven-liverpool-interest-genuine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">devastating exit of Micky van de Ven<\/a> unless a huge statement is made by the club over the coming months, with sources revealing how Premier League rivals Liverpool are ready to make a stunning swoop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\/thomas-frank-sack-ranking-next-tottenham-manager-candidates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ranking Tottenham replacements for Thomas Frank as sack talk explodes and nine managers linked<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetfootball.com\/tottenham-hotspur\/next-tottenham-manager-ranking-available-big-names#new_tab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ranking the 10 biggest out-of-work managers by how they\u2019d fare at Tottenham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tottenham star is now desperate to leave and is the dream target of one specific club this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[42326,218,448,72008,221,101,843,919,110,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-all-the-news","tag-football","tag-front-page","tag-mathys-tel","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-thomas-frank","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-transfer-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380259","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=380259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}