Tottenham Hotspur are struggling and former co-owner Alan Sugar wants the club to sack Thomas Frank and bring in former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp as his replacement.
Former Tottenham Hotspur co-owner Alan Sugar has called on the club to sack Thomas Frank and bring in former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp. The Spurs manager has come under intense scrutiny after Frank’s disappointing 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday extended his disappointing form in north London.
The Dane arrived at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium from Brentford over the summer, but fans have grown dissatisfied with the team’s style of play and dismal home record. Tottenham have won just two league games at home this season and are languishing in 11th place in the Premier League table after a double from Ibrahim Sangare and Callum Hudson-Odoi secured victory for Forest at the City Ground.
The pressure is mounting on Frank, with his team now six points behind the top four and in a position to guarantee automatic Champions League qualification for next season. Sugar, who was Spurs chairman for nine years in the 1990s, called on the club to consider a management shake-up.
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The 78-year-old insists Tottenham appoint Klopp in Frank’s place. He said: “Given the great wealth of the Lewis family, it would be a win-win situation if they hired Jurgen Klopp in January.
“Players and great coaches cost a lot of money. Does anyone agree?”
But Sugar’s hopes of seeing Klopp take charge of Spurs may be in vain. The German will leave Liverpool at the end of the 2023/24 season after almost nine years in charge, saying he no longer has the energy for such a demanding role.
The former Dortmund and Mainz boss has made it abundantly clear that he has no plans to return to the dugout. He is also adamant that even if he reconsiders his decision to retire as manager, he would not be a starter to manage another English team other than Liverpool.
“I said I would never coach another team in England, which means (if he were to come back) it would be Liverpool,” Klopp revealed on the CEO Diary podcast.
“Well, in theory it’s possible. I love what I do now and I don’t miss coaching. I don’t. I mean, I’m a coach, but I’m not a player, it’s just different. And I don’t miss it.”
“I don’t miss standing in the rain for two and a half to three hours. I don’t miss going to press conferences three times a week and doing 10 to 12 interviews a week. I don’t miss that either.”
“I don’t miss being in the dressing room in the sense that it’s not very often. I coached about 1,080 games, so I was in the dressing room very often.
“I’m 58 years old. That’s old to you, old to them, but not that old. That means I can make a decision in a few years. I don’t know. (If) I had to make a decision today, I wouldn’t coach anymore, but thank God I don’t have to. I’ll just see what the future holds.”
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