Frank's Tottenham win percentage compared to Postecoglou, Pochettino and others as pressure builds

Tottenham boss Thomas Frank is now under real pressure after a tough few months that have seen Spurs drop like a stone to follow a positive start to the new campaign. Frank’s men are now in the bottom half and not looking much better off from last season when they had a domestic campaign to forget under Ange Postecoglou.

Postecoglou lost his job even after winning the Europa League title, with the Premier League campaign proving his undoing, and if Spurs are going to set that standard, many will argue they must apply the same to Frank.

There are some underlying factors, with injuries now stacking up, but that was the case two-fold for Postecoglou, who saw his squad fall apart on the fitness front last season.

Frank knows he must turn things around, but it seems Spurs will remain patient for now, with the club likely to sanction a couple of significant signings this month in a bid to spark the team to life.

As Frank battles to keep his job, we have taken a look at the Tottenham manager win percentages to see where Frank ranks among his predecessors.

How does Thomas Frank compare to previous Tottenham managers?

As of today, Frank has won exactly a third of his games, with a win percentage of 33.3% from his 21 Premier League games in charge. To keep things fair, we will focus the comparison on solely league games, given different managers will have competed in different competitions, for example it may be easier to win in the Europa League than the Champions League.

At the top of the leaderboard is Tim Sherwood with a win percentage of 59.1% from his 22 games in charge. Antonio Conte (57.1%), Mauricio Pochettino (55.9%) and Andre Villas-Boas (53.7%) make up the rest of the leaders.

Of those who have managed more than 20 games, Harry Redknapp (49.3%), Jose Mourinho (46.6%) and Martin Jol (41.6%) come next in the rankings.

For reference, Tottenham’s last manager, Ange Postecoglou, finished with a record of 40.8%, which puts him in eighth when the 20-game threshold his applied.

Frank’s record puts him down in 15th, a touch under Glenn Hoddle (36%) and George Graham (33.7%). He has the same win percentage as Christian Gross, but Gross managed more games than Frank has so far, so he gets the edge in the rankings.

If you look at the number of games managed and combine it with the win percentages, Pochettino arguably has the best record, given he has the third-best win percentage but with 202 league games managed. The two leaders, Tim Sherwood and Antonio Conte, only managed 22 and 56 league games respectably.

Frank on poor season

Speaking after Tottenham’s defeat to Aston Villa in the FA Cup, which realistically will leave the club without silverware this season, Frank said: “Of course that is disappointing. I said before the game that we (are going) full strength. There was nothing (more we could do). There were players we couldn't... should we energise?

“Micky (Van de Ven) is in a top place. That was definitely a player to think about (switching out), but we wanted to do everything we could to win the game. We did everything we could. Especially in the second half, you can see we did everything we could. Unfortunately, we faced a good Villa team as well that made two moments and scored two goals. We could only make one."

He added on the fans’ frustration: “Of course that is disappointing. We are all hurt. There is nothing we wanted to do more than to get through to the next round, no matter who we face. We play at home. We had a good opportunity. Unfortunately, we could not go through. As I said, we went with full strength in terms of how we could do it. We all look back at the game and think, hmmm, I think we could do better in the first half and all that. In the second half, very good.”

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