{"id":6878,"date":"2026-02-14T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/02\/14\/report-tottenham-paid-8m-to-sack-thomas-frank-as-total-commitment-hits-23m\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:52:08","slug":"report-tottenham-paid-8m-to-sack-thomas-frank-as-total-commitment-hits-23m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/02\/14\/report-tottenham-paid-8m-to-sack-thomas-frank-as-total-commitment-hits-23m\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Tottenham paid \u00a38m to sack Thomas Frank as total commitment hits \u00a323m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report has revealed Tottenham Hotspur paid \u00a38 million to terminate Thomas Frank\u2019s employment. Still inside the first 12 months of a three-year deal, the Daily Mail state Frank pocketed a payoff of \u00a38 million upon his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>The payout to Frank and his backroom staff falls just short of the \u00a310 million Spurs parted with to buy him out of his Brentford contract 12 months earlier. That figure is presented before any consideration of salary costs tied to his time at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, the report puts Spurs\u2019 commitment to Frank at \u00a323 million. That total does not even factor in the \u00a34 million paid to terminate Postecoglou\u2019s contract last summer, according to the same account.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham have already begun their search for a new permanent manager. Given the recent outlay on successive coaches, the club may prefer an unattached candidate for their next appointment. As is almost always the case with interim managers, Tudor is effectively on a four-month audition for the permanent role, but Spurs will already have their favourites to take charge at the end of the season regardless of his performance.<\/p>\n<p>Top of the list is thought to be USMNT manager Mauricio Pochettino, a Spurs favourite from his time in the dugout between 2014 and 2019. The financial consequences outlined in the report underscore the scale of investment Tottenham have made in recent managerial changes and the constraints the club will carry into the next appointment process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Tottenham paid \u00a38m to sack Thomas Frank; total commitment related to his time is \u00a323m. Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1317,1087],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tottenham-hotspur","tag-accounts-2025-26","tag-coaching-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}