It has been reported that Thomas Frank had several misgivings about the Tottenham squad after arriving at Hotspur Way last summer.
The feeling around the club when Frank arrived was overwhelmingly positive, as Tottenham had just broken their trophy drought.
The club would have hoped that the former Brentford boss was the right man to sprinkle tactical maturity onto a squad which had played with plenty of flair under Ange Postecoglou but struggled defensively.
However, fast forward eight months, and the mood around Spurs is as bad as it has ever been, with Frank leaving Tottenham in the middle of a relegation battle.
Thomas Frank felt only Pedro Porro was elite in the Tottenham squad
The Times say that even though Frank was taking over a Europa League-winning team, he did not rate the squad as being good enough to compete at the top.
In fact, the Dane believed that only Pedro Porro was good enough to play for an elite European team among the squad he inherited.
Interestingly, Porro is one of just two Tottenham players to have thanked Frank publicly since his sacking, which perhaps shows what the squad thought of the 52-year-old.
Frank was not convinced about Cristian Romero’s leadership qualities
The Times goes on to explain that Frank also felt that the Tottenham squad was lacking in leaders.
The Dane’s decision to hand the captain’s armband to Cristian Romero was not because he saw the Argentine as a natural leader, but rather because he felt there were no other leaders in the squad.
The report adds that some Tottenham players were surprised by how Romero was given space to do as much as he pleased during Frank’s tenure