Thomas Frank did not do much at his first performance as Tottenham manager to destroy the theory that Heung-Min Son is on his way to the exit.
Son will not leave before the previous season of next month through Asia, where friendly matches are played in Hong Kong and South Korea, but the 33-year-old is in the last year of his contract with interest from Saudi Arabia and the MLS in the United States.
He has been with Spurs for ten years and is a captain, although there were no guarantees that the son will keep the bracelet.
“Good question, we didn't decide anything,” Frank said about the captain. “It will be my decision. There is a long list of bullet points to get through and I will take them in the correct order.
“He was a captain last year and when we play our two x 45 minutes tomorrow, Son and Cristian Romero will be the captains.”
Tottenham is in action for the first time under their new boss in a preseason -friendly at Reading on Saturday.
“At the moment I have a player who is fully dedicated and trained well,” he added that Son and his right to be allowed to leave if he wanted to service after 10 years. 'If a player has been in a club for a long time, there will always be a decision for the club to make natural. It is always difficult when that happens. '
Those decisions that he would be made in combination with chairman Daniel Levy and technical director Johan Lange.
“The club will always decide in the end,” Frank added as he asked questions in his first press conference, because he was lured by London from Brentford to replace Ange Postecoglou.
He doesn't have, he said, spoken with Postecoglou. And was careful with transfer cases and refused to comment on the pursuit of Morgan Gibbs-White from Nottingham Forest.
Neither did he say much about a failed bid for Bryan Mbeumo who leaves Brentford for Manchester United after those clubs had agreed a fee of £ 71 million.
“Bryan is a fantastic player,” said Frank. “I have been with him for five years and I think he deserved a step, regardless of where he is going and I wish him the very best.”
The 51-year-old Dane, however, was ready to embrace goals set by Levy for Spurs to challenge the Premier League and Champions League titles and not just the Lesser Cup competitions, such as the Europa League, which they won in May, the first big trophy of the club in 17 years.
“I share his ambitions for the club,” said Frank. 'A club of this size should have that ambition. How far we are gone is probably very difficult to say, but we have to throw it forward and go for it.
“That should undoubtedly be the purpose of the future. What is there a chance for us to win the PL this season? I am not allowed to gamble, but I think we are probably not the favorites.
“At least there are three teams for us, but we will do what we can do to build a strong and competitive team.”
Regarding Levy's record of firing five managers during Frank's time in Brentford, he smiled: 'I like to challenge myself. I have the privilege of never being fired before. That is one of the reasons why I took the job. I get a little more risk in my daily life.
'There are busy to a large club. We have to act because we are. It is me, it is the staff that the players, the staff and everyone we have to do together.
I love the ambitions. Everything I do, every decision I have made so far is for the long term. It is not about surviving one game or a year or 18 months or whatever the average is. It is for the long term. '