Frank makes 'confident' Tottenham transfer declaration amid £100m signing talk

The Tottenham Hotspur boss has been speaking about the owners' ambitions to push the north London club forward in the coming years.

Thomas Frank is confident that Tottenham's owners, the Lewis family, are set to back him and the hierarchy with investment to build a successful club, although he still believes a £100million transfer remains beyond Spurs in the near future.

The Lewis family have since injected £100million into the club and are expected to provide further financial support to help Spurs close the gap to the big-spending clubs above them.

Frank's predecessor Ange Postecoglou once said that Tottenham would never sign a £100million player but the current head coach believes they will one day, if not in the near future.

"In the next 50 years? Then yes! It’s very evident that every successful club, not for one year, but over five, six, seven years, to build, you need a combination of time and doing the processes, depending on where the team come from, of course, but to stay up there is still very difficult," said Frank.

"So time and process, and, then of course, investment. If you want success in football, you need to invest in players. Hopefully, do it cleverly and we want to do it smart, so we don’t invest too much on the wrong players. But you need to invest. £100m, I don’t know. Let’s see. I don’t think we are close to spending £100m, put it that way. But I don’t know, let’s see what happens in the future."

He added: "I’m a big believer that we need to develop the players we have, and if we do that, it’s about if you can develop players, not all of them should cost £60m, £70m, £80m, £90m, whatever the amount. I don't think anybody has done that. Liverpool didn't do that to get to the top. Even City hasn't done that.

"So you need to be good at developing the players, which I believe we are and we will be very good at. But then you also need to invest in the right potential of a player. He could be 22, or 26. Declan Rice is a good example. How old was he when he joined Arsenal? 24 or 25? That’s important. Nobody achieves the top without investing."