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MICKY'S STILL FOCUSING ON THE TOP FOUR

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December 17, 2025

LIFE under Thomas Frank at Tottenham has had its ups and downs this season but Micky van de Ven is convinced it will even out and that a top-four finish is a realistic expectation come May.

- BY KEITH WEBSTER

Spurs are in the bottom half of the Premier League table in 11th, but are only six points from Chelsea in fourth.

"The new gaffer came in and has his new way of playing and thoughts about the game," Van de Ven told The Overlap podcast.

"When he came in preseason, it was [him teaching us] everything about his system, because we're going to need to play a totally different system compared to Ange [Postecoglou]. Now, it's a lot of walk-throughs and technical stuff.

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