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Thomas Frank is only getting used to being sworn enemies with Arsenal, having taken over the bitter rivals of Tottenham in June. And he could not help but be open and honest about how a transfer of the Gunners did at the beginning of this summer made it “so happy” for the player in question.

Frank supervised the friendly victory 1-0 over the Arsenal in Hong Kong Thursday, with Pape Sar who scored the only goal of the match on the coup of the interval. One of the most unusual aspects of the first derby of the manager of the manager was running for the first time with Christian Norgaard in his career.

Norgaard was the captain in Brentford – the Frank club left in office to the Spurs – before the Arsenal triggered him for an initial tax of £ 10 million three weeks August. Previously they had worked together with Bondby and in various stages of the international age groups of Denmark.

Leaving the fact that Norgaard has left the former Frank Brentford club and completed to move to the enemies of his new employers, the Boss Spurs is still in the seventh heaven that his former skipper has managed to wet a dream change at the age of 31.

“It’s a bit exciting (approaching him),” Frank said. “I have known him since he was 15 years old.

“This is the first time I played against him. It was a bit foreign to see him in another team.

Norgaard can find it difficult to get regular minutes in a midfield that boasts artists of the caliber of Martin Odegaard, Declan Rice and Martin Zubimeni. But he is happy that his move was signed in advance Angouh to ban a complete pre-stage, which helped him acclimatism to Mikel Arte’s ideas.

“I was able to be with the team from the first day of the pre-stage and benefited me a lot,” I explained. “Now I am much lower in terms of the integration of the game than it has been if I have joined now. So it has been fantastic so far. It is such a good group, such a good staff and the entire team around me has made everything very easy.

“I am also here contributes, otherwise I would not have made the move. But I also know that there are sums of the best players in the world in my position here, so it will be competitive) Arsenal