Glenn Hoddle has revealed that he believes that Tottenham Hotspur's players have stopped playing with the same intensity for Mauricio Pochettino.
Spurs have been in poor form since the turn of the year and a disappointing start to the Premier League season which has left them 11th in the table after 11 matches.
They find themselves already ten points behind Leicester City and Chelsea in the race for the top four, having only won three league matches all season.
In the Champions League, they still have a strong chance of qualifying for the last 16 having beaten Red Star Belgrade 4-0 on Wednesday night.
However, with so much speculation over key players in the Spurs team, Hoddle has reached the conclusion that the players' performances in the league have been affected by the instability.
The former Tottenham boss believes that although there is still huge respect for Pochettino, the players are no longer pushing themselves for their manager.
“I’ve gone on record and said it before but there’s a massive problem, there’s a lack of confidence and there’s no stability in what Pochettino's team is,” he told BT Sport before the game.
“For the last two years it was very stable, you knew what the team was, the team actually knew what it was going to be, the back four picked itself to a certain degree.
“I think it’s changed now because he realises there is players now who want to leave and who are going to leave next year and that’s unstable, it’s totally torn that place apart.
“You’ve got players who have just joined the club, a Champions League finalist team, some are looking for the future and they’re wondering what’s going on with some players going to be shoved out the door.
“That incentive has gone, playing for Tottenham and for Pochettino. They still respect him, of course, but they’re not going out on a limb like they were over the past two or three seasons.
“The pressing has gone, so there is things off the pitch and off the pitch. The owners need Champions League football, they have got to be in the top-four with that beautiful stadium.
“The players like Harry Kane, Dele Alli, they want silverware. That’s something they have got to have at Tottenham and I think there is an unbalance there.”
