Thomas Frank insists he will 'build the club' at Tottenham despite pain of Arsenal hammering ahead of daunting PSG clash

Thomas Frank promised Tottenham fans he knows what he is doing, and that he can build a team in the style they demand despite faltering form and the pain of a four-goal hammering at Arsenal.

'Part of that is to manage those setbacks, learn and move on,' said Frank, ahead of another daunting fixture against European champions Paris Saint-Germain.

'There's one thing I'm 1000% sure of, I know how to build a team, I know how to build a club, and we will do that. Along the way, we will learn, and the big thing is how we learn from the bad spells.

'How do we react to bad spells? The best teams continually move on. They still run hard, do the same thing. 

'In the first four months I learned about the team and individual players, and all that goes into finding the right formula with the right players on the pitch and some coming back.

'Also, we play every third day. That's the big challenge, but one I embrace.'

This trip is Frank's 20th game as Spurs boss. His first was a defeat on penalties against PSG in the Super Cup, and there was early promise, but his team have won only three of their last 11 and the defeat at Arsenal is still reverberating.

'I watched that game back,' said Frank. 'A hard watch. We were not good. Bad performance, no running away from that in any way. 

'The biggest thing for me, the most disappointing thing was that we were not able to compete and I was convinced that we could compete on the day.

'That didn't happen. We had 53 situations where it was like a duel, second ball situation where either Arsenal went long or we went long, and we came out on top on 17 of those and lost 36.

'If you don't do that, that is the basic, then it's very difficult to win a football match.

'Very simple, we were not aggressive enough when we pushed forward. We were not securing the ball well enough which is also part of that. We were not landing in the right areas for where the second ball landed. That was the main bit.

'Now we face another of the best teams in Europe away from home, so it's a nice challenge and I'm convinced we'll bounce back.'

Brennan Johnson is banned after a red card in the last Champions League game against Copenhagen.