{"id":508287,"date":"2026-02-11T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508287"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:14:06","slug":"arteta-feels-sad-about-spurs-sacking-thomas-frank","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arteta-feels-sad-about-spurs-sacking-thomas-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta feels sad about Spurs sacking Thomas Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gunners head coach, Mikel Arteta, has expressed his sympathy for Thomas Frank after he was dismissed by rivals Spurs today. Tottenham sit only 5 points ahead of the relegation zone in the EPL as they are still without a victory in the league this year, despite finishing 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the group phase of the UCL.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas leaves the North London club as statistically the worst-ever head coach of a big-6 EPL team. Spurs are in real danger of being in the relegation zone battle as they didn\u2019t win any of their last 8 Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal manager Arteta was asked by the media about what he thinks about the sacking of the Spurs head coach:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always feel sad when a colleague loses his job because Frank is a fantastic manager. Thomas is a great man, and he proved that he can be successful in the Premier League. Unfortunately, sometimes the results dictate if we will be able to continue to do our job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spurs are hoping to hire a new manager before the weekend\u2019s north London derby at home vs. Arsenal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mikel Arteta discusses how important flexibility is ahead of the North London derby next weekend with Spurs sacking Thomas Frank and potentially changing their tactical approach \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYhHlP5PdN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LYhHlP5PdN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/2021595245842972969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gunners head coach, Mikel Arteta, has expressed his sympathy for Thomas Frank after he was dismissed by rivals Spurs today. Tottenham sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508288,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18106,27057,18466],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19457,18467,366,1076],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Arsenal boss labeled the news about Frank\u2019s sacking as sad.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508289,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508287\/revisions\/508289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508287"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508287"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}