A week ago, Thomas Frank admitted that there has been to be something ‘crazy’ for him to leave Brentford amid reports linking him to the vacant job at Brighton & Hove Albion.
The Seagulls have seen Graham Potter leave The Amex for Chelsea last Thursday and are yet to appoint his successor.
The Dane has been linked to Brighton but has publicly insisted he won’t be easily tempted to leave the London club.
Frank was instrumental in helping Brentford achieve promotion to the Premier League and are in their second consecutive season in the topflight after the Bees finished the last term 13th in the table, six points behind eighth placed Leicester City.
Tipsbladet editor-in-chief, Troels Baker Thøgersen, believes the Brentford manager, who was previously wanted by Everton, should wait for a club bigger than Brighton.
He wrote this in his column in this week’s edition of Ekstra Bladet.
“Thomas Frank and Kasper Hjulmand regularly appear as targets when managerial jobs become vacant, and Thomas Frank is concretely linked to the job in Brighton,” Troels Baker Thøgersen said.
“It would be a special time to move to a bigger, but not sure of survival, club in the Premier League, but Graham Potter’s career and exit are worth noting. As I said, it will be striking timing to move after the start of the season. But Thomas Frank appears again and again, although he extended his contract in 2021 while the interest from Everton was there.
“The timing will be better for next year, but what happens if a more well-run and healthy club than Everton comes forward with an offer?
“Brentford’s rise with cheap players who overperform and are sold expensively, the great promotion and the even better survival in the Premier League are causing a stir, and Thomas Frank gets a lot of the credit, while being part of a strong organisation that many clubs envy.
“The calculation is: What if, instead of taking a team from the Championship to just under the middle of the Premier League, Thomas Frank can take one from the bottom of the Premier League to the European places?”
“I think that offer is coming and that it will probably be a bigger club than Brighton who will make it to Thomas Frank, if the famous season two in the Premier League continues to go well, as it seems to be doing now.
“The national coaching job and the post at Brentford in the Premier League are obviously big positions, but two such strong process coaches will get the chance in even bigger places.”
With Frank suggesting that he is not open to leaving Brentford for the Seagulls, the latter will probably have to look elsewhere to appoint Potter’s successor.
