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Gab & Juls Show: Are Spurs in a relegation fight?

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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Julien Laurens is joined by Nedum Onuoha to discuss Tottenham Hotspur's decision to sack Thomas Frank with the side close to the relegation zone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, welcome to the Gab and Jules show.

0:37.0

No Gap today. So look who's come down from Manchester. I'm bad, Jules, I'm back, Jules. So good to have you back, my brother. Neda Manua is with us for this Pact show because we had not just one, but two Premier League managers sacked in the last 48 hours. We'll talk about that, obviously, there's a a big primary league midweek round as well I

0:54.7

will talk about city winning Liverpool winning as well and cups all around Europe but

1:00.0

we have to start as first because really this is the biggest story of the week Thomas

1:04.5

Frank gone some would say finally or eventually other says that maybe they didn't see coming

1:10.3

where do you stand in in them deciding to let go that's a good question I think in some ways I'm a bit mixed with it just because you know with managers people say give them time give them time give them time I think it's fair to say the team wasn't doing as well as they would have hoped for the fact that they're in the same position they were in a year ago when we were saying that was probably one of their worst ever Premier League seasons yeah you know in some ways is alarming but then it also runs parallel to them being in knockout stages in Europe yeah it's exactly the same as last year but it just never felt like the uh well not never but in recent times not felt like the fans and others around it have been almost trusting of him to be able to do a good enough job for them to find better form. I agree. You know, I think in the in the last 10 games that they've played, they've am asked seven points, which is the same as wolves. I know. Who most people say are doomed. And the only team with the worst record is Crystal Palace. Yeah. So I think having watched that last game that they played against Newcastle, sad who had no away record, Newcastle coming and essentially dominated for long periods in that game. You did raise the question, well, how long can this go on for? And in some ways, I guess they've seen that gap between this game and the next one against Arsenal to think, well, maybe it's time for a change.

2:21.2

Yeah, I was a bit surprised because I thought they would give him until the end of the season.

2:26.6

Not because they believed in him because it would have been sacked eventually in the summer anyway.

2:33.8

But just because now you need an interim coach for three months, whether that's Ryan Mason or Johnny Hightinger or whoever you want and then you go through the process again in the summer it just for me look like that

2:41.0

step up from a small club to a bigger club in the Premier League is very difficult and not everybody

2:45.0

can do it and that for me that's in what sense though how do you mean you talk about football

2:49.0

and why as well just like status a bit of both I think he kept the same methods and the same ideas from Brentford to Spurs thinking very naively. No problem. I'm going to do the same thing as Spurs and he will work the same way. It doesn't. I think Spurs fans, spurs players, probably Spurs direction as in like top of the people, expect something different

3:09.0

from you as a manager than doing what you did at Brentford.

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I also think that the players in the dressing room expect somebody different than the guy

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that was at Brentford. And for me, the lack of authority that he had on this thing, which is

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clearly, for everybody clearly to see was also a problem if you have to

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if you come to a bigger dressing room of a bigger club with bigger egos bigger names bigger players who've

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