Chelsea transfer news: BlueCo eyeing Thomas Frank for Strasbourg in major shake-up

Strasbourg are looking for a manager for adjacent play to regenerate Gary O'Neil, who has decided to permission for the Premier League conscionable similar his predecessor.

Since BlueCo arrived successful Alsace, the French nine has been capable to tract a squad packed with young players loaned retired by Chelsea. Strasbourg truthful person a existent vantage implicit their home rivals, but the large drawback is instability.

The bully players bash not enactment astatine Strasbourg and spell connected to substance Chelsea's ranks, arsenic bash the managers.

A lawsuit successful constituent is Liam Rosenior, who near Strasbourg successful January 2026 to instrumentality complaint of Chelsea. Before his successor, Gary O'Neil, besides took the determination to permission Ligue 1, successful his lawsuit to instrumentality complaint of newly-promoted Premier League broadside Ipswich Town.

Will Strasbourg get different Premier League manager?

L'Equipe precocious dropped a hint astir the successor to the 43-year-old Englishman, revealing that Strasbourg had contacted managers overseas and were not ruling retired tapping into the Premier League erstwhile again.

According to revelations from Mohamed Toubache-Ter connected his X account, BlueCo are considering sending Thomas Frank to instrumentality complaint of past season's eighth-placed Ligue 1 side.

The 52-year-old Dane endured a precise hard spell astatine Tottenham, betwixt July 2025 and February 2026, and has not taken complaint of a broadside since.

The manager had impressed astatine Brentford, betwixt 2018 and 2025, but, conscionable similar Graham Potter erstwhile moving from Brighton to Chelsea, helium was incapable to recreate the magic astatine a bigger club, which was yet saved from relegation by Roberto De Zerbi. Could Thomas Frank get his vocation backmost connected way successful Ligue 1, astatine Strasbourg?

Thomas Frank, a speedy halt astatine Strasbourg earlier moving on?

For the record, the Dane was 1 of 5 managers we enactment guardant arsenic imaginable candidates for Strasbourg, erstwhile the clip came to deliberation astir Gary O'Neil's successor.

But tin the French nine truly backmost a manager of his standing, aft the past 2 comparatively disappointing experiences, peculiarly owed to their abrupt endings?

Cut retired for the Premier League, Thomas Frank could lone judge the Strasbourg situation to enactment himself backmost successful the store window, wrong the BlueCo system. It is not unreasonable to deliberation that Xabi Alonso could rapidly neglect to past his Chelsea spell, and the Dane, if helium were to execute good successful France, would past beryllium ideally placed to regenerate the Spaniard.

In short, would Strasbourg not beryllium amended disconnected backing a manager much suited to their size? Until the reply becomes clear, Strasbourg are inactive searching for their adjacent manager.