{"id":12161,"date":"2023-03-10T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T05:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=287562"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T05:05:33","slug":"thomas-frank-addresses-spurs-management-rumours-says-i-am-very-very-happy-here-at-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/thomas-frank-addresses-spurs-management-rumours-says-i-am-very-very-happy-here-at-brentford\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank addresses Spurs management rumours; says, \u201cI am very, very happy here at Brentford\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"b2229f5d-8c3f-4ae4-a0fb-5a234e62f8b6\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Head coach Thomas Frank has played down reports that he could take over from Antonio Conte at Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"2cc1b236-82c0-42f5-a1ba-92bd442c89a4\">As a result of Wednesday\u2019s Champions League exit to AC Milan, Conte\u2019s future at the north London club is far from certain.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"ee5eff49-d02b-4f1f-8d5f-05989f367981\">The 49-year-old Danish tactician is expected to make Tottenham\u2019s managerial shortlist if Conte steps down, but he is satisfied at Brentford. Frank\u2019s contract with the club expires in 2027.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"0be7c0e6-a43c-4150-8dcd-876c334f7ae6\">Frank said ahead of Brentford\u2019s Premier League match against Everton: \u201cFirst and foremost, they have a manager I have studied for years and admire enormously. He has achieved fantastic results, so I hope he and the Spurs have a successful season. \u201cSecondly, I am very, very happy here at Brentford.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"c7adab50-05d4-4c2c-b1eb-197412272169\">In December 2016, Frank joined Brentford as Dean Smith\u2019s assistant manager. After Smith left for Aston Villa in October 2018, he assumed leadership of the first team. Among the top five leagues in Europe, only the Bees and Reims remain unbeaten in 2023, a statistic Frank thinks should be commended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Frank plays down Tottenham\u2019s links. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":34572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[571,2147,3550,1162],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-antonio-conte","tag-brentford","tag-thomas-frank","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}