Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp believes that Spurs will still secure a top-three finish under Mauricio Pochettino this season.
Spurs suffered a miserable week before the international break with a 7-2 defeat to Bayern Munich followed by a 3-0 loss at Brighton & Hove Albion.
The result leaves Spurs in ninth place, 13 points behind league leaders Liverpool with eight games played.
Despite the disappointing start, Redknapp is confident that things will improve to see them reach the Champions League qualification spots again.
He told the Daily Mail: “They should be finishing in the top three with that squad, that’s where they should be, there’s no doubt about that in my opinion.
“To get to a Champions League final was great for them. It was great to see them reach the final.
“At the start of the year I really thought Spurs would push Man City and Liverpool a lot, lot closer.
“Tottenham have got a great team, with Harry Kane, Dele Alli, [Heung-min] Son – I thought this could be their year.
“But it’s been a disappointing start for them for sure and they need to turn it around quickly, but I still think they’ll finish third.
“But they’ve got the best stadium in the country, the best training ground. It’s all in place.
“They’ve got a great group of players.
“It’s some squad, if you go through it, I don’t care what anybody says I don’t think there’s a lot between that squad and Liverpool’s and Man City’s squad, I really don’t.”
Redknapp, who managed Tottenham between 2008 and 2012, thinks that blame should be shifted onto the players for the recent run of form.
He added: “You’re as good as your players.
“Graham Taylor once said ‘your manager is never as good as you think he is and he’s never as bad as you think he is, he’s somewhere in between’ and that is football management.
“If you put Pochettino, or you put Pep [Guardiola] or [Jurgen] Klopp and let them go and manage Brighton or manage Norwich or Sheffield United, they’re not going to go and put them in the top six, it doesn’t work that way."
