Tottenham Hotspur have put out a job posting for ‘first-team training analyst’, and it makes for interesting reading under the new Thomas Frank regime.
The Thomas Frank era has now begun at Tottenham, with the Lilywhites on pre-season tour in Asia, where they defeated Arsenal in the first North London derby outside of UK soil in Hong Kong.
Spurs are building up to the UEFA Super Cup clash against Paris Saint-Germain on August 13 in Udine, which will give the Dane a golden opportunity to win a trophy in his first competitive game in charge of the club.
Frank has a reputation for being meticulous in his preparation for every game, often leaning on analysts, and he now reportedly wants to bring one more person in to help him do that at Tottenham.
Tottenham want to hire a new analyst for Thomas Frank’s team
Frank has brought a new coaching staff with him to Tottenham, although there are still a couple of familiar faces in Matt Wells and Rob Burch.
It looks like he wants to continue adding to his backroom staff, with the club putting out a job posting for a new analyst focused on the first-team goalkeepers.
Among the responsibilities of the role is to create video and data analysis for Tottenham’s goalkeepers and to lead the pre- and post-match presentations to the likes of Guglielmo Vicario and Antonin Kinsky.
The big philosophical shift we can expect in Spurs’ approach this season
All clubs have a large number of analysts working for them these days, but one thing that is different in Frank’s case is the amount of detail he goes into about the opposition.
His predecessor, Ange Postecoglou, was very much from the school of playing to your own team’s strengths and not burdening your players with too much information about the opposition so that they can express themselves.
Frank is from the opposite end of the spectrum and takes the opposition’s strengths and weaknesses into account in the way he sets the team up for each game, and we can already see evidence of that with the backroom staff he is assembling at N17.
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