‘Cluster of crap’ – Tottenham warned they’re slipping into relegation battle ahead of brutal schedule

With 15 games remaining, Tottenham Hotspur find themselves at risk of doing the unthinkable – being relegated from the Premier League.

That’s the damning outcome of talkSPORT’s Inside Spurs show where the panel fear four potential season-defining fixtures.

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Spurs have won just two of their last 14 league fixtures, with a recent 2-2 draw at Burnley making them winless in their last five.

They sit 14th in the table and eight points adrift of the bottom three during a dismal debut season with the under-pressure manager, Thomas Frank.

Europa League glory helped make up for their 17th-place finish at the end of last season, their lowest final top flight standing in 48 years.

But further silverware in the upcoming months appears unlikely, and their current league position could take a further hit.

Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United and north London rivals Arsenal are their next four opponents in a nightmare run.

And after failing to beat Brentford, Sunderland, Bournemouth, West Ham and Burnley, Inside Spurs believe they risk going down.

Could Spurs fall into a relegation scrap?

“The teams that we’ve played in the last month or so, I’m not being funny, they’re teams that we need to beat,” said Abbi Summers.

“I’m sorry to say this, because I know some people say we’re not, we are in a relegation battle, it is a thing.”

Spurs may also be eight points outside of the top six, but Summers has little confidence in the side to reach such heights this season.

“If you want to look at it as glass half full, glass half empty, I would go with the glass half realistic… just get rid of the glass,” she added.

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“Realistically, and this is just not to be pessimistic, but if I saw any type of growth, green shoot, something like that, then I’d say, ‘Okay, let’s try and aim for top six’.

“But unfortunately at the minute, all I see is us probably getting sucked in even further into that little relegation battle, which is ridiculous. This time last year, we’re sitting here talking about these type of things.

“We’re talking about it again with a manager who… I don’t even want to say is more lost than Ange [Postecoglou] was this time last year, but the media seem to give a lot more grace to Thomas Frank than they did Ange.

“A lot of media outlets have done it, and former players, ‘We’ve got to have time and stick with Thomas Frank’. I know that Thomas Frank is a good manager, he did a great job at Brentford. He just doesn’t seem to be the right fit for Tottenham Hotspur.

“As for the players, yes, they come into the factors. Obviously the board come into the factors, the recruitment we know is a massive problem. There’s a whole cluster of crap, realistically, as to why we’re in this situation, but it doesn’t mean that the manager is any good.

“And what everyone did to Ange last year in the media, absolutely ripping him apart when he had 16 injuries as well, seems to me that Thomas Frank gets away with murder.”

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Dean Scoggins,Head of Sun Sport, also joined the show and spoke on his concerns with Spurs’ fate in the next few weeks.

“You talk about eight points from the bottom three and eight points from the top six.

“But if we just played City, United, Newcastle, Arsenal, then you’d go, ‘Okay, we’ve got these next five fixtures, we can go there’. But unfortunately, it’s the other way around!

“We’ve had the ones where we should be knocking on the door of the top six, and I fear that in a month’s time, West Ham will be five or six points closer to us, Forest are going to be four or five points closer to us.

“And we will be, genuinely, if we don’t change something, we’ll be genuinely talking about a relegation battle.”