Thomas Frank pushed forward for national team job – Brentford manager is choice of experts.
Brentford manager Thomas Frank has been pushed forward for a national team job, with a panel of experts all picking him out.
Jyllands Posten cover that today and how the experts are agreeing that the Brentford boss should be the next man in charge of Denmark.
The country are on the hunt for a new manager after Kasper Hjulmand stepped down following a disappointing performance at the European Championship.
There’s a determination that the manager must be Danish and ‘must focus on the game on the pitch’. And in both regards, Frank sits well above the rest.
That’s certainly the case for Flemming Povlsen, a Euro 92 winner and now football expert on Disney+.
“I prefer Thomas Frank. He knows the game inside and out,” he said.
“It is a big filter that a new coach has to go through in order to be accepted by the players, the audience and the press, and Thomas Frank gets through that filter easily.
“The expectations for the Danish national team are probably greater than in Brentford, but he has coped with the great challenges he has faced in a small club in a big league. Everyone has great respect for his work.”
Frank has certainly built an impressive CV for himself during his time in England after taking charge of Brentford in October 2018.
Since then, he’s led them to the Premier League and established them in the top flight comfortably and continued the club’s track record of developing players to boot.
He’s certainly received plenty of praise for the work that he’s done, and Peter Grauland believes that could play a part in matters, particularly when it comes to the finances involved.
“The question is whether it is now for Thomas Frank,” he added.
“The economy probably plays a role, because the salaries are much higher in the clubs. And the job as a national coach is of a different nature compared to being a club coach.
“Then it is every day, while you as a national coach have to perform in a few hectic periods. It’s about ambition, and it might be silly to say that it’s less ambitious to work as a national coach than as a club coach abroad.”
