We’ve already told Thomas Frank five players he should build his Tottenham team around, but our brazen impertinence doesn’t stop there. No, internet law requires us to follow that unrequested advice with its mirror image: five players he should hard-heartedly discard. So here are they.

Thomas Frank has been appointed by Tottenham Hotspur to point the North London club in the right direction again.

Tottenham Hotspur named Thomas Frank as their fifth full-time manager in six years on Thursday with the Premier League club confirming they had hired the former Brentford boss on a three-year contract to replace the sacked Ange Postecoglou.