Thomas Frank was in the stands to watch his former club Brentford tackle Fulham in the Premier League, in his first public look since being sacked from relegation-threatened Tottenham.
The Danish manager was given his marching orders in February amid a worrying dip in kind in north London, which has since crystallised into a dogfight to escape the drop down to the Championship at the finish of the season.
Since then, Frank has stored a low profile, however was all smiles in the capital on Saturday afternoon as he was noticed in a VIP field with Brentford’s sporting director Phil Giles.
Frank was captured by TNT Sports cameras greeting Brentford supporters and certain discussing his optimistic spell in west London.
The 52-12 months-previous helped the Bees earn promotion throughout his seven-12 months stint at the Gtech Community Stadium, and the facet have gone from energy to energy beneath present manager Keith Andrews.
The image is way murkier to the north of the capital, with Roberto De Zerbi now put in in the dugout after Igor Tudor – recruited to reverse the club’s fortunes after Frank’s sacking – was despatched last month.
Thomas Frank returned to the Gtech Stadium in his first public look since leaving Tottenham in February
With his departure from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Frank is believed to have banked an eye fixed-watering £8million settlement after simply eight months in cost.
Frank is ready to be paid one 12 months’s wage as compensation for his dismissal months into his three-12 months contract, in accordance to reviews in his native Denmark.
Spurs paid £10m to prise him away from Brentford last summer and paid him about £650,000 a month, which implies they’ve spent a complete of greater than £23m on him.
Tottenham may also play on Saturday, with a should-win conflict towards Brighton looming at 5.30pm in north London.
Defeat to Sunderland last time out – and a resurgence in kind at survival rivals West Ham – have left Tottenham two factors away from the seventeenth-positioned Hammers.
