Djed Spence and Micky van de Ven apologised to Thomas Frank after their snub of the Tottenham supervisor went viral.
Spurs have been booed off after their defeat to Chelsea on Saturday on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Spence and Van de Ven appeared to snub a handshake from Frank as he tried to direct them in direction of the house supporters.
He may then be seen trying again on the pair as they headed down the tunnel as a substitute of applauding the group.
Frank, nevertheless, performed down the incident when speaking to the media on Monday.
He mentioned: “Micky and Djed got here into my workplace yesterday unprompted to make an apology.
“It was not their intention to be disrespectful. They have been simply annoyed.”
Spurs are again in motion towards Copenhagen within the Champions League on Tuesday night time.
In the meantime, they host Manchester United on Saturday in a 3rd successive dwelling match forward of the worldwide break.
Ought to Spence and Van de Ven be dropped?
talkSPORT’s Hugh Woozencroft, Micky Grey and Perry Groves are all in settlement that agency motion towards the gamers ought to be taken by Frank.
Groves believes Frank should put the incident to an in depth earlier than these matches, however doesn’t suppose it ought to be accomplished in entrance of the remainder of the Spurs squad.
He advised GameDay Stay: “I feel that could be a downside as a result of in case you’re Thomas Frank, the best way that he regarded spherical, it was an absence of respect. That’s what it was.
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“It wasn’t just a bit look. It was a males that stare at goats stare. He was taking a look at his two gamers and mentioned, ‘I can’t imagine you’ve accomplished that to me.
“So Thomas Frank, and I feel he’s an excellent supervisor, however he’s discovered himself in positions that he’s by no means been in earlier than.
“With the expectation of his 60,000 at dwelling crowd, his workforce being booed off, which he would by no means have had at Brentford, and he would have been in full management of the gamers at Brentford.
“So now he’s coping with larger egos and for him to get management, he’s bought to usher in Djed Spence and Micky van de Ven individually.
“Not in entrance of the remainder of the gamers, individually, and say to them, ‘if I ask you to do one thing, you don’t query me. You simply do it. If you wish to query me, you query me afterwards.’
“As a result of, Micky [Gray], you performed clearly underneath Peter Reid at Sunderland, no one questioned him. I do know it’s a special period, however you possibly can have a row with him and also you do it inside the confined dressing room, however nobody would query him publicly.
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“That was Van de Ven and Djed Spence simply disrespecting Thomas Frank.”
Woozencroft added that each gamers ought to be dropped for Spurs’ subsequent two matches on account of their actions.
He added: “Actually, for me, if I used to be the supervisor, they wouldn’t be beginning, they wouldn’t be enjoying midweek or on the weekend towards Manchester United.
“Spurs followers will say they want them. You say they want them and possibly they do, however for me, you’ve bought to set the tone as a supervisor at a soccer membership.
“These two gamers confirmed a degree of ego that doesn’t match their expertise once they did that to Thomas Frank.”
Their significance to the aspect leaves Frank with a dilemma, although, Grey admitted as he defined why neither participant will probably be axed.
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Grey mentioned: “If they have one thing of a bee of their bonnet about the best way that the group reacted within the sport, then do one thing about it your self.
“However I feel even when it’s a token gesture, you shouldn’t should see your supervisor pointing to the 2 gamers to say, ‘go and say due to the group’.
“Even in case you don’t need to do it, you stroll up to now up in direction of the supporters, you don’t even should get near them.
“Behind your thoughts, you’re going, ‘proper, I don’t actually need to do that, however I’m going to do it. I’ll simply clap my fingers and say thanks very a lot.’
“You then come off the pitch after which you may have just a little phrase about what you’ve simply accomplished while you get into the dressing room. They didn’t do this. They ignored the supervisor and I don’t suppose we’ve heard the final of it, I’ve to say.
“I imply, I feel they are going to play as a result of he does want these two gamers, however he must have a stern phrase with them.”
Former Premier League supervisor and talkSPORT pundit Alan Pardew did not take such a tough line although.
On the incident, Pardew mentioned on The Ultimate Phrase: “Properly, let’s simply put it into context. It is not one thing I might go and hearth a participant over or something like that.
In the event that they swore at a fan just like the Southampton participant [Nathan Wood] did, that is a giant high-quality for me, proper? As a result of that is unacceptable.
“To stroll off and never sign the followers, you understand, I have been in gamers’ faces about it and mentioned, look, do not let it occur once more. By no means hearth anybody over that.
“I do not count on there to be main repercussions over this, if I am trustworthy.
“I feel that’ll get addressed and it is going to be water underneath the bridge. However when it comes to Frank and the notion after a defeat and the shape they’ve at dwelling, it begins so as to add to individuals’s standards of whinging, if that is smart. It simply provides one other ingredient to it, does not it?
“And sadly, you do not want that.”
Frank was appointed as Ange Postecoglou’s successor within the Spurs sizzling seat on a three-year deal in the summertime.
His aspect at present sit fifth within the Premier League following their third defeat in ten matches up to now this time period.
