Some say that whoever is the new Tottenham manager is the first thing he will receive when he throws the club's state-of-the-art training ground of the club, is a hospital pass.
Social media have been working with emotional testimonies of Spurs players about how many Ange Postecoglou meant for them. Good luck with the new man, in an attempt to persuade a set of dissatisfied, disillusioned, mourning millionaires.
That is actually one of the many arguments to make Thomas Frank the next Spurs boss. Frank is probably the best man manager in the Premier League and the most emotionally intelligent.
If he entered the club and thought that players were still simmering with loyalty to his fallen predecessor, Frank would have no problem accommodating those feelings. He is safe enough in himself and his capacities to recognize the debt that he owes to others.
It can be exactly what Spurs needs. Because what they need is not to allow the oceans of positivity they have won by winning the Europa League to ebb in an sour feeling of loss about firing Postecoglou. They have to take and use that positivity.
“We are on the shoulders of others,” Frank said when I spoke with him last month on the Brentford training field, “and we are building on foundations they built for us. We have to recognize that every time.
“It's all about the ego. So how vulnerable is it or how big is it? Some people always need reassurance and to say: “The reason I am so good is because of me and has nothing to do with these top players and good staff.” It depends on who you are.
'So you have to believe in your own skills, but be humble enough to know that there is a lot of hard work and you are not the only one. So I have faith in myself and what I can do. Also modest enough to know that I can't do anything alone. Nobody can. '
Frank and I played a few sets of padel in the Osterley facility of Brentford. Me and my friend John against him and assistant coach Kevin O'Connor. I would not say that it was a pleasure to lose 6-0, 6-0, but it was a course.
It was a memory that, for everything they are often visited, Brentford is no longer a small club. Spurs would be a step higher, but it would not be a jump.
It was also a memory that Frank has a talent to build a successful culture and to improve it one step after the other. He is a smart, innovative coach who led Brentford to 10th in the Premier League with the second lowest wage account in the top flight.
But he also has highly rated coaches such as O'Connor around him and created an environment where his players signed for their character, as well as their assets, feel appreciated and generally reached far beyond the expectation of them.
Frank's Brentford parties work on a High-Dringt, energetic model, but when they attack, they do this with verve, speed and fluidity. Frank was especially proud that three of his players scored more than 10 league goals last season.
Maybe there is a perception that he is too nice. I do not share that, and not just because I separated half of a geriatric combination at a court by someone who was so competitive that he would have seen a single game as a defeat.
“Look, if you ask if I am tough,” Frank (left) said that day, “I think I'm extremely resilient. And I think we all have a dark side. I have five percent dark side in me. Even my wife says that. You need that dark side to have an edge and I have a lead. I am extremely competitive, very determined, and you do not survive in this company if you are not tough. '
It is surprising that Frank has not already been recruited to coach at a Champions League level. Spurs has work to repair the damage caused by the departure of Postecoglou. Frank deserves the chance to be the man to do it.