Thomas Frank | Brentford Manager

Well keeping a team in the PL is the real test to see if you can manage at this level. A small team like Brentford have become PL regulars and not even in the conversation as relegation candidates, Frank needs respect for that

Chances on Ipswich going down next season will be very high
Ipswich seem a well run club these days so I doubt that. Expectations for Ipswich staying up next season are low. Like Luton this season.
 
Not all these Scandinavian/dutch managers, get me a proper Spanish or Italian manager, no shame in admitting they have the best managers at the moment
 
Holy feck people demeaning Frank while bigging up McKenna at the same time :lol:
He's done a fanstastic job at Brentford just as McKenna has at Ipswich so far. Next season will be a huge test for McKenna. Big difference between PL and Championship
No one's demeaning him, it started with someone belittling McKenna if you actually take 10 seconds to read the thread.
 
He plays shit on a stick football and if he was a bland Englishman nobody would be entertaining this. Might as well go for Southgate or Potter honestly.
 
Ipswich seem a well run club these days so I doubt that. Expectations for Ipswich staying up next season are low. Like Luton this season.

They are no doubted well run but the level from Championship to PL is huge and they’ll be a favourite to go down

Just highlighting the fact Frank not only took Brentford up but kept them there with relative comfort which is a massive task in itself and something that McKenna will do well to replicate
 
Great, throw a manager used to doing a decent job at a small club into the mixer which is Manchester United.
Very few available managers have managed a team comparable to the size of United. Tuchel is about the only one. Liverpool got Slot, Arsenal got Arteta, Spurs got Ange. It's often the way it goes.
 
Try to keep in mind while watching this clip, if you can, that we won the game 3-1.



Manager is frustrated that his team lost a game they didn't deserve to lose shocker. People getting disproportionately bent out of shape about that was bad enough at the time, but holding a grudge for two years? Seriously :lol:

I like him, he's done an amazing job with Brentford and as soon as he leaves they'll sink like a stone. United is a completely different kettle of fish though. There's such a lack of quality managerial options out there. I'm not enthusiastic about any of them.
 
No need, he’s a prick. Although I’m not completely against the idea of him becoming manager. :lol:

He is a very decent guy. Anyone can say some dumt stuff in heated moment. How Thomas has gotten under United fans skin this much is quite funny to me.
He is a very humble guy normally and always had a good relationship with his players.
That having been said he is not good enough for United.
 
Manager is frustrated that his team lost a game they didn't deserve to lose shocker. People getting disproportionately bent out of shape about that was bad enough at the time, but holding a grudge for two years? Seriously :lol:

I like him, he's done an amazing job with Brentford and as soon as he leaves they'll sink like a stone. United is a completely different kettle of fish though. There's such a lack of quality managerial options out there. I'm not enthusiastic about any of them.

But they did deserve to lose. They were the better side in the first half but went in at nil all. Then we made a couple of changes and absolute battered them in the second half. Scored 3 goals and then took the foot off, allowing Toney to score a soft consolation. It was just an incredible childish and disrespectful interview for a professional to give.

It was my first time really paying any attention to him, and he's done the same a few times that I've seen since. There was a game against (I think) Newcastle last year were they were comfortably beaten and he had a similar rant. Give him a big club and he'll have even more of a sense of entitlement and end up frothing and drooling all over assistant referees and journalists a la Klopp.
 
Ah yes, finish eight then target a manager who hasn't finished higher than ninth. He has done a great job though, but Brentford's data driven approach is light years ahead of our current structure.
 
As for this talk of two year grudges and getting under skins - I and I'd imagine every other United fan thinks of him on average twice a year - when we play them. We're thinking about him today because he's been ridiculously linked to our managers job. There's nobody wasting time in their lives worrying about Thomas bloody Frank.
 
Imagine if he comes here and becomes the first English manager ever to win the PL.
 
Try to keep in mind while watching this clip, if you can, that we won the game 3-1.



I don't really care. His job is to manage Brentford, he'll act and speak in their best interests. It's his qualities as a manager that would interest me as a hire.
 
He plays shit on a stick football and if he was a bland Englishman nobody would be entertaining this. Might as well go for Southgate or Potter honestly.
But he’s well versed in data analytics!
 
Try to keep in mind while watching this clip, if you can, that we won the game 3-1.

Caf will call him fraud and deluded the minute he does that here.

PS. Sorry for deleting the media link
 
Frank is outside the box, no ?
Tuchel, Flick, Enrique less so.
The coaches we’re getting heavily linked with are England/Premier League based. It concerns me that we don’t appear to be looking more afar. You’d also hope this isn’t the case when it comes to signing players.

I’m yet to see any of our most reliable sources say we’re after Southgate or Frank, Potter’s a fantastic manager, I get why the Chelsea spell might have put people off but whoever gets him is getting a really good manager.

Says a lot about Ineos? Why… because Mike McGrath has gone 2+2=5 and written an “Exclusive!”? His diligence for this article seems to be Frank has some past with Brailsford.

All three of them are just people taking a manager and creating a reason why he could be the next United manager … “oooh, Southgate hasn’t signed a new England contract, Ratcliffe is lining him up for United!”. We’re always used for clicks, it’s an easy win for journalists.

Why would McGrath know what Ratcliffe/the rest are thinking? Why wouldn’t Ornstein (or even Whitwell) have said something? Because they don’t do clickbait pieces.

And for thinking outside the box, “these lot” got Berrada. How many people knew Berrada was coming or even thought it possible? No one.

Could Frank be an option, yeah I’m sure but I don’t think McGrath knows jack.
Come on now, yes United have click bait pieces but we’ve all done this dance before. We know nothing is secret, we know United test the waters when it comes to bringing in managers/players. We see this stuff get leaked. We saw it with Ten Hag and Poch, we saw it with Arnautovic. If Ten Hag is sacked it will with absolute certainty be one of these names we are getting linked with who replaces him. There won’t be some surprise candidate popping up.
 
At the very least, it's thinking outside the box. Maybe we've come to accept that we don't really have the squad to pull off the high pressing, possession based football like Arsenal / Pool. We're not going to compete with the likes of City / Arsenal for now and that's fine. This has us trending towards the type of football that Newcastle play.

He can get a tune out of guys like Maguire, AwB, Hojlund, Bruno and Rashford. It's an Ole-ball improved type appointment that gives us some time to build a squad and then sign the next manager.

I still think Tuchel is the man but wouldn't be very opposed to this one.
 
Would much rather keep Erik.
Would be absurd to take a chance on him in the position we are in.
 
This is where it's at.

Imagine Curbishley at Charlton, Tony Pulis at Stoke, Allardyce at Bolton or Dyche at Burnley being linked with the Utd job just because they got a club promoted and kept them up for a few years.

Laughable to even consider it.
 
This is where it's at.

Imagine Curbishley at Charlton, Tony Pulis at Stoke, Allardyce at Bolton or Dyche at Burnley being linked with the Utd job just because they got a club promoted and kept them up for a few years.

Laughable to even consider it.
I mean that's not why he's being touted is it - because they got a club promoted and kept them up for a few years - ...

Frank/Potter are touted because of their philosophies and styles in regards to football aswell as their record at previous clubs.
 
I mean that's not why he's being touted is it - because they got a club promoted and kept them up for a few years - ...

Frank/Potter are touted because of their philosophies and styles in regards to football aswell as their record at previous clubs.

Neither has done anything more than those guys I mentioned. It's the same flawed logic that saw David Moyes get the gig.

Frank is a long ball/crossing merchant who relies on set pieces, knock downs and second balls. He'd be ideal for Liverpool.

Potter is has his teams try to pass the opposition to death but still can't find a way to put the ball in the goal.
 
It's not flawed if they end up succeeding. Anything can happen in football. Data suggests Frank is pretty good.
Neither has done anything more than those guys I mentioned. It's the same flawed logic that saw David Moyes get the gig.

Frank is a long ball/crossing merchant who relies on set pieces, knock downs and second balls. He'd be ideal for Liverpool.

Potter is has his teams try to pass the opposition to death but still can't find a way to put the ball in the goal.
 
Neither has done anything more than those guys I mentioned. It's the same flawed logic that saw David Moyes get the gig.

Frank is a long ball/crossing merchant who relies on set pieces, knock downs and second balls. He'd be ideal for Liverpool.

Potter is has his teams try to pass the opposition to death but still can't find a way to put the ball in the goal.
 
Really like the fella. Trusts players to be adults. Talks well about the game. Don’t know where this other narrative comes from. Probably from post match interviews.

Has worked within the same line of structure we’re attempting. Makes players better. Plays good football.

Not really an EtH upgrade in totality, but he’s been great these last few years so I wouldn’t lose my mind over it.
 
As if Fergie's going to let anyone near the club that can chew gum even more frantically than he did.
 
Can we get a Thomas Frank poll going in the United forum @mods? I'm curious how many would be for hiring Frank or outright against it.