Mauricio Pochettino and Tottenham will be hoping to kick on once Premier League football resumes after the international break following a nightmare start to the season.
Spurs currently sit ninth in the table at present and are a huge 13 points off league leaders Liverpool after only eight games, while they have once again failed to register a win in their opening two Champions League fixtures.
Getting back on track with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Southampton after their Colchester United humiliation in the Carabao Cup, things hit a new low last week as Bayern Munich smashed them 7-2 and Brighton & Hove Albion beat them convincingly at the Amex.
Former striker Dimitar Berbatov believes that the club are the latest victim of the Champions League trend after losing in the showpiece finale and then failing to reach their previous heights the following campaign.
With the Bulgarian pointing to a couple of previous examples throughout his career, he has stated that Spurs need to find an answer sooner rather than later or it could be a long season for the club.
"Spurs reached the Champions League final, now they are in really bad shape. With Leverkusen, I reached the Champions League final and the next season we were fighting relegation," he told Betfair.
"Dortmund under Jurgen Klopp reached the Champions League Final and the next season they were fighting to stay in the league.
"So, there is a trend here, teams that aren't used to reaching these heights have difficulty the next season maintaining that level and managing expectations and I think Spurs are experiencing this at the moment.
"At Leverkusen, we had the same team and the same coach - similar to Spurs, yes, they have made one or two signings but they are basically the same team, so you sit around and wonder 'what the f**k is going on, we were Champions League finalists and now we were fighting relegation' - how do you explain that?
"There is a trend and you need to react and get some kind of response sooner rather than later otherwise you're going to be fighting against the drop and it's going to be s**t, you don't want that.
"I remember at Leverkusen we were saved from relegation after the last game of the season and we were jumping around like we won the Champions League, we were happier.
"I don't want Spurs to go through that, but the game I saw against Brighton was pretty much the same as Manchester United - nothing was there."
