Tottenham have been urged to look closer to home as they continue their search for a new manager.
The outlook at the North London club is currently chaotic, with no manager or director of football in place and star striker Harry Kane heavily linked with a move away in the summer. And to add to the frustration of fans Mauricio Pochetinno, widely tipped to return to the club next season, has instead reached a verbal agreement to takeover at Chelsea.
Amid the circus, interim manager Cristian Stellini, who temporarily replaced Antonio Conte, has been sacked in favour of another interim boss in Ryan Mason. But Daniel Levy does at least seem to be finally nearing the appointment of a full-time replacement in Feyenoord boss Arne Slot, with Luis Enrique the other boss under consideration.
But ahead of a home game with Brentford Saturday lunchtime, Levy has been encouraged to pursue the man who will be directing operations in the opposite dugout. Thomas Frank is not thought to be on Levy's shortlist, but Troy Deeney believes the Dane is the man to unravel the problems at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
"I can’t think of many better managers than Brentford’s Thomas Frank to oversee a proper rebuild at Spurs," wrote Deeney, in his column for The Sun . "Frank is an outstanding, ambitious and hungry manager.
"I know some will say that his Brentford side play a lot of route one football but when they were promoted from the Championship under the Dane they were an excellent footballing side. He is an adaptable coach and, under him, I think Spurs would play in a more attractive style than they did when Antonio Conte or Jose Mourinho were in charge."
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The Birmingham City striker may have further risked the wrath of the Bees' faithful though, by suggesting that Frank is not the only figure that Spurs should be targeting at Brentford. He also backed keeper David Raya as a long-term successor to Hugo Lloris, and thinks Ivan Toney would be the perfect replacement for Kane.
Toney has just been handed an eight month ban from football for breaking betting rules, and won't be eligible to play in the Premier League again until January. But Deeney thinks that he would still fit into Tottenham's long-term project, describing him as "top-six quality and already a proven goalscorer."
Frank, 49, took over at Brentford in 2018, leading them to promotion from the Championship and then in two successive Premier League campaigns. He signed Toney from Peterborough United ahead of the 2020/21 play-off winning season, for an initial fee of £5 million.
