Thomas and Johan on our 'exciting' coaching set up | OneFootball

In an exclusive interview, Head Coach Thomas Frank and Johan Lange, Technical Director, give us a breakdown of our new coaching staff as we continue preparations for the 2025/26 season.

We have welcomed Justin Cochrane (First Team Assistant Coach), Chris Haslam (Head of Performance & First Team Assistant Coach), Andreas Georgson (First Team Assistant Coach), Joe Newton (First Team Coach Analyst), Cameron Campbell (First Team Individual Development Coach) and Fabian Otte (First Team Goalkeeper Coach) to the club alongside Matt Wells, who remains on the coaching staff as First Team Assistant Coach. There are also promotions from the Academy of Stuart Lewis (First Team Academy Transition Coach) and Dean Brill (First Team Assistant Goalkeeping Coach).

In a special interview with presenter Ben Haines at Hotspur Way, Thomas talks us through his coaching staff and their individual roles, while Johan explains how Stuart and Dean bridge the gap between the Academy and first team...

Thomas Frank

"Let's start with the assistant coaches - Justin Cochrane, who comes from Brentford and worked with me before: he will be in charge of the offensive part of the game and some training planning – getting that smooth and running. Then we’ve got Andreas Georgson, from Manchester United - but I also worked with him previously at Brentford. He’ll be an assistant coach focused mainly on set-pieces, restarts, and some culture work. Matt Wells, who will be responsible for the defensive part of the game, also contributing to training. I think the way we split the roles is really good and covers all the abilities we’d like to have.

"Then we’ve added Cameron Campbell as an individual coach - big on how we develop players. That was a big wish from Johan and me, something we talked about that we thought was crucial. Not many clubs have nailed that. Hopefully, we can take it to the next level. We’ve also got Fabian Otte in as a goalkeeping coach – really excited about him coming in. He’s got great experience working with some of the best goalkeepers in the world and hopefully he can push the goalkeepers. Finally, Chris Haslam is the Head of Performance – first-team coach. That’s the physical part of football training but also the link to everything. So overall, I think we’ve got a very exciting group together."

Johan Lange

"Thomas referenced it. I think it’s important to have specialists. We’re very fortunate as a club to be able to attract some of the best specialist coaches in the world. As you say, we’ve also made a couple of internal promotions. Stuart Lewis will come into a new role as Transition Coach between the First Team and the Academy. As Thomas said around Cameron coming in as the Individual Coach, we want players of all ages to have that development mindset, strengthening even more the bond between the First Team and Academy is something we’ve worked on for a number years, and with this hire of Stuart coming in this new role, we believe it’ll be even stronger in the years to come, because we have some very exciting young players that will come through and push in the upcoming years, and they need that special attention to bridge that big gap that is to go from Academy football to the Premier League.

"We also have Dean Brill coming in as assistant goalkeeper coach – he was head of Academy goalkeeper coaching for the last four years and did a very good job. It shows that we want to show both players but also staff – whether they’re coaches, medical, performance analysis, scouting – that if you coming into our Academy and getting the DNA under the skin, we can have good exciting pathways for coaches, specialists, in this football club."