Former Liverpool midfielder Jason McAteer has claimed that Mauricio Pochettino could leave Spurs 'sooner rather than later' following the midweek Champions League loss against Bayern Munich.
Rumours over Pochettino's future will not go away, with Real Madrid said to be interested in taking the Tottenham boss to the Bernabeu and McAteer claims that problems both on and off the pitch could lead to the Argentinian looking for a fresh challenge.
"The big disappointments for me this season are Spurs and Arsenal, who have got real problems," McAteer told the racing post .
"Tottenham look like a club in desperate need of a change and I sense it could happen sooner rather than later.
"The financial situation at Tottenham certainly didn’t help Mauricio Pochettino – going through a couple of windows where he couldn’t buy anyone would have hurt him. He’s also a wanted man.
"Rumours about Manchester United and Real Madrid don’t go away especially with Solskjaer and Zidane struggling – and there’s no smoke without fire. There will be players who are unhappy because they are not playing – like Christian Eriksen – while Harry Kane may be looking at it now and thinking I should have gone when I had the chance.
"It just looks really dysfunctional with problems behind the scenes.
"And there's the way they were beaten by Bayern Munich. That’s not the Bayern of six or seven years ago either. Spurs have dropped too many points to suggest they can make a title charge and they are only going to go backwards.”
However, Pochettino himself was in a defiant mood when he spoke to the press ahead of the Premier League fixture against Brighton.
“In five and a half years, in every single press conference we’re talking about my future. I hope that we’re still talking it means we’re going to spend five more years at least," he said.
