THOMAS FRANK is the worst permanent Big Six manager in the history of the Premier League.
The Spurs boss holds the lowest points per game and win percentage of any ‘Big Six’ head coach with 10 or more Premier League matches to their name.
That rules out interim/caretakers as well as those at Manchester City before the Abu Dhabi takeover and with Tottenham pre-Harry Redknapp.
When it comes to Prem spells for Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, City, Tottenham, and Liverpool, Frank is rock bottom.
From his 25 matches in charge – all this season – Frank has accumulated just 29 points.
That leaves his side firmly in the bottom half with 18th-place West Ham in the relegation zone, only six points off.
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Spurs are in danger of being dragged into a scrap with Leeds, Nottingham Forest, and Crystal Palace.
They could go below Palace on Sunday after losing 2-0 to United at Old Trafford.
That is the seventh game in a row without a win for Frank – a run that extends to one victory in 10 and just two in 16.
After Ange Postecoglou could only muster a 17th place finish last term, Frank is actually doing worse than his predecessor overall.
Postecoglou won the Europa League in his second season, sacrificing the Prem as he focused on mid-week matches.
The Aussie had come fifth in his first year in the job but dropped off after a brilliant start.
He is also fifth on this list with an average of 1.37 points per game (PPG) from his 76, winning 40 per cent of those.
Frank has won 28 per cent, which is also the lowest number, below that of even Ruben Amorim at Manchester United.
Amorim was sacked as much for his fallout with Jason Wilcox as results but still only managed a 23 per cent win rate and 1.23 PPG.
The Portuguese boss did come above Spurs last year but that was not much to shout about.
Roy Hodgson‘s 20-game spell at Liverpool is third with just 1.25 PPG and 35 per cent wins.
Graham Potter at Chelsea (22 matches) was marginally better at 1.27 PPG but worse on 31 per cent winning rate.
Postecoglou rounds out the top (or bottom) five with Mark Hughes behind him.
The former City man is perhaps harshly done by the list as the Etihad club did not finish in the top four until the season after he left.
They haven’t dropped out of it since and missed out to Redknapp’s Spurs in Hughes’ last season, 2009-10.
He was sacked after 18 months in charge, straddling the 2008 takeover.
Roberto Mancini proved the decision to be right, winning the title in 2011-12.
It is then back to Spurs and Nuno Espirito Santo for his barely qualifying 10-match stint.
He got 1.50 PPG but still got the can quickly after failing to impress.
Kenny Dalglish is eighth with 1.51 PPG at Liverpool before Frank Lampard.
The Coventry boss is another slightly hard done by with one win in 11 games as interim at Stamford Bridge in 2023 post-Potter bringing his numbers down.
Lampard managed 1.66 PPG in his first year-and-a-half at Chelsea before being sacked in January 2021.
Rounding off the top 10 is Ralph Rangnick at Manchester United after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was shown the door.
He managed 1.54 PPG but also managed to lose himself a job as director for the following years.
To come below some of these guys might say it all for Frank.
He is wildly unpopular in North London (at least with the Tottenham fans) and things don’t get any easier.
It is the visit of Newcastle up next, followed by rivals Arsenal.
Fulham and Palace come after that with Liverpool and Forest before the end of March.
His record could somehow get even worse.
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