(Football news) Head coach Thomas Frank has signed a new contract with Brentford until 2027. The club are currently 10th in the Premier League after four wins and seven draws from 15 games and will resume their Premier League campaign when they welcome Tottenham at the the Gtech Community Stadium on Boxing Day. If Frank remains until 2027, he will complete a decade at the club after joining as Dean Smith’s assistant in 2016. He guided Brentford to the Premier League in the 2020/21 season for the first time in the club’s history.

“I feel very privileged to be able to stay here for a long time. Of course, in football, you never know about tomorrow; 2027 is just a number, so three days later, maybe I’m out of here! No, it’s a privilege because it’s not certain you will just get offered a new contract at the club you’re working at.

“I’m so pleased and I said earlier this year that I still feel, deep inside me, there is a lot of unfinished business here at Brentford, even though we’ve been extremely successful, all of us together, in the last years with some fantastic milestones: the new stadium, promotion, attacking the first season in the Premier League and now we are in a fine position in the league so far.

“I work in a place where there is an unbelievable alignment from top to bottom and everybody’s on the same page, everybody wants to attack, everyone wants to be better and that culture and environment inspires me and I’m pleased to be part of that. The most important thing for me is that I can see we can progress a lot more.

“The strategies are in place. We want to develop, we want to build, we want to add layers every single day. The club is willing to do that and they want the same. I have a fantastic cooperation and a daily one-to-one with Phil Giles the sporting director, Lee Dykes the technical director and, of course [owner] Matthew Benham – and that is massive.

“With the coaching staff, we’ve been together for a long time now and, most importantly, we have a top squad of players that I really enjoy working with and constantly want to improve and get better, so I think there were so many pluses. When you get that special feeling of a special place with the atmosphere where people are coming in every day with a smile on their face, big energy, big determination to want to get better, everyone pushing in the same direction, then you need to really protect it and take care of it.

“If you walk into another club, you need to build something new, which also can be interesting, but I think sometimes you need to be aware of what to reach for and mainly so much more to achieve here. I will do my very best at the moment. Enjoy every day, try to improve and develop the club and myself every day and I hope we can achieve other magic moments.”

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