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Brentford 'in many ways is the perfect football club'

Thomas Frank says "he's very happy" at Brentford - but knows he won't be managing the club "forever".

Speaking to Gary Lineker for Football Focus, Frank said: "I'm very, very happy at Brentford - in many ways it's the perfect football club. You can still be ambitious. It'd be difficult to win the Premier League, but we can still build the club and have the chance to win something - a cup maybe.

"The environment, ownership and everything is so good, so my day-to-day job is extremely good - that means a lot.

"I won't be at Brentford forever. I may walk into another club that will be completely different and have to get everything sorted and it'll take time.

"I'm very happy here. What happens in the future? I don't know."

Frank, who is the second-longest-serving manager in the league, also believes the Premier League needs teams like Leicester in 2015-16 and Nottingham Forest this season to be challenging towards the top, and that these are "fantastic" kinds of stories.

"We need clubs like Leicester, Forest, Brentford and Bournemouth - clubs that are doing things differently and breaking into the so-called traditional squads," he said.

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