Juande Ramos has six games to save his job at Tottenham, it has been revealed.

The News of the World says the Spaniard, still less than a year into the job, will be axed if he hasn't lifted the bottom-of-the-table side clear of trouble by November 15.

That's the secret deadline the Tottenham board have put on Ramos's reign at White Hart Lane. Spurs are languishing at the foot of the Premier League with just two points after a disastrous start to the new campaign.

And a senior Spurs source said: "It's make or break time now for Ramos. If things haven't improved dramatically by mid- November then it's 'adios' for sure.

"The club just can't afford to let this crisis go on much longer, certainly not into Christmas. There's simply no way the powers-that-be are going to put the club's Premier League status in jeopardy. Being in the top flight is far too lucrative, especially in these harsh financial times.

"But they want to be fair. He's got a bunch of new players who need to gel, so he's got half a dozen games to sort it out."