Is time up for Thomas Frank at Tottenham?

Thomas Frank will not leave Tottenham Hotspur before tomorrow's Champions League clash with Borussia Dortmund , but his position at the club is under revision.

Frank arrived from Brentford in the summer with high expectations, tasked with turning around a Tottenham team that had slumped to a 17th-place finish in the Premier League last season.

Not since last being relegated in 1977 had the North Londoners ended a top-flight campaign in a lower position, with Ange Postecoglou sacked despite the juxtaposition of Europa League success, in the process ending a 17-year trophy drought.

Frank had built a fine reputation across the capital at Brentford . He'd led the Bees to Premier League promotion and, perhaps more impressively, consolidation.

Brentford did not finish lower than 16th in any of his four top-flight campaigns with the club, twice securing top-half finishes. Relegation rarely appeared a concern. It was a feat achieved despite regularly dealing with the sales of key personnel and one of the Premier League 's lowest wage bills.

Frank had earned his chance at a bigger club, but the transition has been challenging. The set-piece expertise honed at Brentford has been evident , but Spurs have struggled in open play, stifled by a lack of creativity. With James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski sidelined, and Xavi Simons adjusting to English football, there's been little innovation.

Spurs have already lost six times in the Premier League on home soil this season. The latest, a clash with crisis-club West Ham, saw their London rivals escape North London with a last-gasp win. The anger was audible at full-time as boos rained down from the stands, and Frank was subjected to familiar chants about his job security.

The data does not make for good reading. Frank holds the worst points-per-game record of any Spurs manager across the last eight occupants of the role.

His 1.32 points per game is dwarfed by Andre Villas-Boas (1.91), Mauricio Pochettino (1.84), Antonio Conte (1.78) and Jose Mourinho (1.77). Worryingly for Spurs , it lags behind both Nuno Espirito Santo (1.65) and predecessor Postecoglou (1.52).

Frank's fortunes are a slight improvement on Postecoglou's dreadful 38-point league haul across 2024-25, but much more than that is required.

Across the last five seasons, Spurs rank fifth in the Premier League for expenditure and fourth for net spend . Their wage bill is the sixth-highest in the division. At the very least, their resources dictate a push for Europe.

Patience, of course, is required with any rebuild but already it appears to be wearing thin. Frank is a likeable character, but he's not won over the Spurs support. The defeat to West Ham might just be the dagger in his reign.

Borussia Dortmund visit North London tomorrow in a clash that could be definitive. Fail to perform and the writing will be on the wall. Already, he's odds-on to be the next Premier League