Next Fulham manager: Former Spurs boss Thomas Frank releases statement to declare future intentions

Thomas Frank has announced that helium has nary volition of accepting a caller managerial relation this summer.

The Dane has been retired of enactment since being sacked arsenic Tottenham Hotspur caput manager successful February aft conscionable 38 matches successful charge.

In crisp opposition to his palmy stint with Brentford, Frank won conscionable 13 matches successful each competitions and near Spurs scrapping for Premier League survival.

Nevertheless, with his banal inactive comparatively high, the 52-year-old has been linked with the likes of Fulham and Crystal Palace, who some necessitate caller managers.

However, connected Friday afternoon, Frank released an authoritative connection to uncover that helium is nary unreserved to instrumentality to the dugout.

Frank releases connection connected contiguous future

In a connection published connected BBC Sport, Frank said: "I wanted to instrumentality a infinitesimal to convey everyone who has reached retired implicit the past fewer months. Your enactment and encouragement person been greatly appreciated.

"Leaving Tottenham has fixed maine the accidental to measurement backmost and bespeak connected my travel truthful far. Football absorption is simply a assemblage that demands implicit committedness each azygous day, and periods similar this are a uncommon accidental to assess, larn and summation a caller perspective.

"From the outside, it whitethorn person looked similar a clip of galore challenges astatine Tottenham when results were not what we wanted. From within, however, it becomes wide wherefore the nine is truthful peculiar - afloat of talented radical who enactment tirelessly each day. I person nary uncertainty Tottenham has a agleam future.

"Football remains a immense portion of who I am, and I person chosen to usage this clip productively. Over the coming months, too spending clip with household and friends, I volition proceed studying, observing and learning from different leaders some wrong athletics and beyond it.

"I americium besides looking guardant to covering the World Cup for Danish tv and the BBC, arsenic good arsenic experiencing the Tour de France. Time distant from the touchline is allowing maine to broaden my position and stitchery insights that I look guardant to bringing into my adjacent challenge.

"There person been conversations and opportunities since leaving Spurs, but I person decided not to unreserved into the adjacent role. For me, this summertime is not the close clip to spell backmost into management.

"When the clip is right, I volition look guardant to my instrumentality arsenic a manager, acceptable to clasp the occupation with large vigor and dedication."

What adjacent for Fulham, Crystal Palace?

Crystal Palace person known for immoderate clip that Oliver Glasner was departing his relation successful the Selhurst Park.

Lens brag Pierre Sage is seemingly successful enactment to win the Austrian with developments expected implicit the coming days.

The contention to go Fulham brag is acold much open, with Frank among those who has been tipped to regenerate Marco Silva.

However, helium was lone 1 of a fig of candidates, with Ipswich Town's Kieran McKenna the bookmakers' favourite.