A stuttering start to the season has raised questions surrounding the future of Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham Hotspur.
Spurs, who finished third in the Premier League last term and reached a Champions League final, have won just three times in their nine top flight outings thus far, but bounced back to form with a 5-0 crushing of Red Star Belgrade in midweek to make it four wins from 13 games in all competitions.
The Argentinian has come under pressure from some sections of the Spurs fanbase and in the media for a disappointing few weeks, with some even labeling it a crisis, but Nottingham Forest captain and ex-Tottenham defender Michael Dawson is in no doubt about how his old club should handle the situation.
"Dele says one thousand percent but it's one million percent you have to stick with him. One million percent," Dawson told Sporting Life.
"To say a crisis is a little bit harsh.”
Defender Dawson, who has missed Forest’s last four games through a calf injury sustained in the first half of the win at Stoke last month, admits that it can sometimes be difficult to keep up the standards that have been so high.
“When you set the standards and the heights that they have set over the last four or five years since Mauricio Pochettino has been there and then you drop below and you're not achieving what you set out to achieve, losing football matches that people expect you to win, you're going to be coming under scrutiny and people are going to be questioned,” he said.
"Players who have played so well like (Christian) Eriksen, a player who was there when I was there, a great player and a great lad, is running out of contract, as is (Toby) Alderweireld, and they're not playing to the same heights that they have set.
"Those players start to come under scrutiny."
