IT'S SPECIAL FOR ME BUT IT'S ALL ABOUT THREE POINTS! 🔥 | Thomas Frank | Tottenham v Brentford - video Dailymotion

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Pre-match press conference with Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank ahead of Tottenham v Brentford in the Premier League, held at Hotspur Way.  Frank discusses facing his former club after nine years at Brentford, the emotional element of seeing familiar players and staff, and why the game still comes down to competing for three points. He evaluates Tottenham’s home form, Brentford’s away struggles, and the improvements Spurs are making through sharper phases of play and greater penetration.  He speaks on the fight shown in midweek, Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven’s overhead kicks, squad fitness, and the players’ half-time huddle used to build togetherness. Frank also explains why Keith Andrews has done an impressive job at Brentford, how he’ll handle playing against players he previously signed, and the return of Heung Min Son as a unifying figure for the club.  He gives updates on rotation on the left wing, competition in that role, and the fitness of Dominic Solanke, Dejan Kulusevski and teenage forward Mathys Tel, who continues to push for more minutes. Frank also discusses Xavi’s recent form, attitude and chances of starting.  📺 Please subscribe, like the video and share wherever you can!  ⚠️ DO NOT copy and re-upload any part of this video anywhere otherwise copyright strikes will be made! You do not have my permission to use this footage.  🔔 To make sure you don't miss any of my videos on this and my other channels please:  🐦 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BeanymanSports 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@BeanymanSports 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BeanymanSports 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeanymanSports  📧 For business enquiries, sponsorships and ads, please contact: 👉 beanymansportsmarketing@gmail.com  #tottenham #spurs #thomasfrank | Thomas Frank Tottenham press conference today

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00:00hi guys we'll start with the broadcast section with no embargo followed by an embargoed section

00:13for 10 30 p.m tonight no live tweeting during the broadcast section please and use the microphone

00:17provided gary thank you hello to us thanks for your time it's already being called the thomas

00:25frank dog an extra incentive this to try and put that home record right yeah i think

00:33of course it's um it's a little bit more special for me because i've i faced brentford where i've

00:42been for for nine years uh that's a almost a quarter of my life uh i had a fantastic time

00:51there and enjoyed every every second of it uh there's a lot of people i i'll see on on saturday

00:57i haven't seen for for a long time i used to see them every every every day more or less so so that

01:02will be special um of course as well it will be not true not to say that uh and it is very true

01:08um but it is it's today been a preparation against the team uh players i know very well of course

01:18there's small to small tweaks to um to what you could say i i used to do but uh a lot of the

01:26identity is the same uh in many ways uh which make it difficult in in many ways um but and when

01:34when when the whistle go it's all about getting three points and win we always ask players don't

01:39we whether they'll celebrate if they score against our old team would you celebrate if you score

01:44against your old team yeah i will uh because is that i think everyone respect the respect i got for

01:52brentford the fans everyone before kickoff after kickoff uh after the final whistle in the 90 minutes

02:01plus it's all about one thing uh do what we can to win the game they are struggling to pick up points

02:09away from home you're struggling as we know to pick up points at home something's got to give

02:15hasn't it yeah definitely it will be a nice timing for us to uh to get the three points uh on on saturday

02:24and that's the only one one way to uh to do that is put a good performance in there and work on the

02:31things we uh constantly working on uh phase two phase three constantly make it sharper quicker

02:37uh um not direct but you know more more penetration um when we need to have that

02:45play with intensity come out brave um we're looking forward to the game the fight you showed uh the

02:51persistence you showed in midweek because obviously you know giving everybody a boost including the fans

02:56have you had your defenders out there on the training ground practicing their overhead kicks

03:00maybe cutie and mickey van de vinge to play play strikers uh so uh now uh we discuss a little bit

03:09if it was richie or cutie's overhead kick that was the best um but i think they are disagreeing

03:14uh they agree to disagree limbo that way thanks very much charlie hi thomas lovely to speak with you

03:21today um just in terms of of the team any issues following the newcastle game any injuries no everyone's

03:27uh from um yeah the game should be ready i've interviewed kevin danzo today and we spoke a lot

03:36about the halftime huddle that the players did against fulham and have been doing for a while now

03:40and he said it's a way of the players trying to encourage each other before they come off the pitch

03:44i just wondered what did you make and what do you make of that halftime huddle that the players do

03:49and how happy are you to leave the place with their own devices when it comes to how they can

03:53encourage and um really boost each other up i think it's a on the pitch uh the more they can

04:00encourage each other i think the more there's a positive body language the more they can you know

04:04all the small um setbacks all the the good uh positive actions i think that just you know

04:10built to that uh togetherness and that um that performance so i i think it's it's good they they

04:18are they're out there um on the pitch they're out in the arena uh none of us is out there i know i

04:24stand close to it but i'm not in there um they need to uh to sort it out and and they can only do

04:30that together and in terms of keith andrews obviously taking over after you left brentford

04:35when i spoke to a lot of the brentford players at the start of the season they said that it didn't

04:39really feel like a massive change because of course he'd been at the club when did you first

04:44know that he would make a good manager um i think first and foremost i think it's it's it's big credit

04:54to um to brentford um to two things be brave enough uh to promote within um but also have

05:03built something all the time so i've been there nine years and that those nine years seven years

05:08almost as a head coach and it's definitely not about me it's about what we together built there that

05:13consistency stability uh and high performance level at the level um so that culture um knowing who we

05:26are what we want to be um that was easier to um how can you say continue with with um appointing keith

05:35and i think he's done a remarkable job um it's never easy to step up to your first head coach role

05:44um the club lost uh crucial players um in the summer and the way they just continued you can see they

05:51got what i would call the brentford identity and he knows that with culture and and style of play and

05:58and kept it but also tweaked it with his idea because we're all different so um a big praise um and

06:06what i saw in in in keith uh very very good man good values good coach um had a leadership potential

06:18um yeah so very impressive yeah all right thomas how are i i'm good thank you you surviving um in

06:26terms of brentford you would you would know you came through from dean smith so you stepped up there

06:33like keith did when you came here who had the more difficult job then at the beginning of the season

06:38keith stepping up for his first ever manager role but a club he knew or you coming here to a club he didn't

06:44know uh that's a good question

06:50no no no that's a very good question ah i don't know which was uh i think it's uh how can you say

07:02difficult challenge um uh yeah experience whatever you call it um two different levels um he's come

07:11within the club but he still need to he's standing out there a little bit more on his own uh in front

07:17of everyone facing uh players staff owners press everything and in the end of the day is his decision

07:24um and dealing with the ups and downs and it was it was not a an easy summer looking from the outside

07:32with players leaving the club and stuff like that and i didn't have just um a perfect start to the

07:38first whatever three or four games so still keep his calm um so and then here it's different of

07:43course you're stepping into a new club like uh again need to know uh how the players are the club

07:49uh leadership everything um so um yeah both both good challenges difficult for both of you um how

07:59will you feel on saturday when you come up against players that you bought for brentford you trusted to

08:04go out and form for you for brentford i'm thinking of dams guard collins keen lewis potter lots of

08:11players i mean there have been new ones since you left but a lot of the team will still be the team

08:15you bought more or less everyone yeah having to having the able to go and beat them do you put your

08:21life in their hands every every day for a few years now yeah but that's the that's the nature of

08:28football uh as i said before the game and after the game and maybe not the 10 seconds after the game

08:35but uh after um i'm looking forward to see good people i i really enjoy to work with players staff

08:42everyone uh but during the game it's just about competing and winning a match uh it's the same if

08:47i'm whatever playing a paddle game or something against good colleagues when we are playing we're

08:52it's not for fun it's it's competitive and after we can be happy again finally somebody might want

08:58to play paddle with afterwards uh a familiar face returning on saturday humilson um real legend to

09:05this football club as you know um first of all fans are going to love seeing him and um i i guess

09:11that he might be able to give you some good luck that would be nice uh no doubt about that uh i'm so

09:18pleased for for sonny that uh that he come back and then really hopefully get the the well-deserved

09:23deserved um celebration and uh um for for everything he'd done for this club i think he was a fantastic

09:33sending off in uh in in south korea um but on tuesday i really hoped he got that yeah they really applaud him

09:43hi thomas um on sonny he was a character who was really good at bringing people together at this

09:50club it's obviously been difficult atmosphere wise at home this season we saw that in the fulham game

09:55do you think you've missed um sonny as a kind of unifying figure on the pitch and in the dressing

10:00them this season um yeah um yeah i don't know um i would say uh he's not here so others need to step

10:11up it's like when you you miss a player for whatever reason uh because leadership qualities

10:16are part of sonny bringing people together also part of sonny whatever uh the level they they they

10:22had others will will step up other others will shine a little bit more um because some of the

10:28uh the players that were there uh before uh took took the shine if that makes sense um but of course

10:34you can always use good people as uh sonny and sonny's position was normally from the left in that

10:41left wing role you've played a number of different players with brennan against newcastle um do you feel

10:47you know who your preferred candidate is in that position does it depend on the opposition how do you

10:52see that that part of the team i think it's fair to say that there is competition for that left side

10:59role i think everyone can see that there's two things in it we we played a fair amount of games

11:04and we play every every third fourth day so there need to be rotation as well uh but also fair to say

11:12there's not been one player that you know put put his foot down boom um i'm playing that position

11:16and apologies if you've been asked this recently but is there any fresh update on dom solanke or on

11:23kulisewski in terms of when they're going to be fit uh no um i said it yeah i'm happy there's i think

11:3010 days ago i got a question uh uh that uh when when they are ready to really be close to be involved

11:37in the squad then i will uh they'll give more information yeah we'll finish with george at the back please

11:42hi thomas um sticking with the left side actually you've obviously tried a lot of players there but

11:55um matty tail hasn't sort of really had a run on on the left but it feels like in recent games sort

12:00of man united and obviously he took the corner on tuesday night he's kind of making contributions in

12:05that kind of limited time when is he going to kind of get the opportunity i guess that he's pushing for

12:11that's a good question when i take the decision uh now big you know as we spoke about matchy before

12:19um it's been um it's been a a toughish season for him of course the first thing was we

12:27you can't run away from that he was not um evolved in the champs league squad um but the way he

12:33carried himself the way he trains his mindset is is very good and that's also why i've used him

12:39um in games and he also started um mainly as a nine um any games he played this season i'm very

12:47well they also can play off the left so it's a little bit what kind of type and who you go with

12:51um and how many players can you go with on the side and stuff like that so uh the the only thing

12:57that any player can do is to keep training well keep doing everything they can to to catch my i keep

13:04make it very difficult for me uh when i take my decisions and um someone else has played on the

13:10left as well this season javi but you know prefers being the number 10 how's he kind of reacted to

13:16this you know these four games you know before it felt like he was kind of slowly adapting had a

13:21very good performance since cobenhagen good against man united i imagine he's not been happy to be on

13:26the bench for these four games is is he sort of doing enough in training that to force his way into

13:30your team xavi's trained fantastic uh the last whatever five six times we actually really could

13:37train um very good attitude um on the training pitch um i like that a lot um and we played you know

13:47different games uh with with different um lineups um i think that xavi was towards uh something better

13:57and better um and as long just the same like matchy train well uh good attitude then you know

14:04then then we're getting closer and closer and i think it's also fair to say that he's coming on

14:08in all four games uh we played is there sort of kind of fulham at home and i guess brentford at home

14:14feels like the ideal opportunity for him is there a reason why he didn't start against fulham as

14:20that was just different different scenarios we played with uh two strikers against psd both of them

14:26scored um i think it's fair to say that and i would not say that we struggled to score because

14:31we scored 23 goals i think that's quite a fairly high amount um so that that's that's quite good

14:35but uh also we also played with uh the two just a little bit different role against um man united

14:43um so it's just different personal and who's been a little bit in form and stuff like that so

14:49yeah okay we'll end the broadcast section there and move on to the embargoed section for 10 30 p.m

14:53on friday matt okay

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