Tottenham coach Les Ferdinand has hit out at the criticism aimed at manager Tim Sherwood.
Ferdinand feels there's unrealistic expectations on the current squad.
Ferdinand told the Sunday Express: "Six or seven weeks ago, everyone said it was all going great. I said the test would come when things start going wrong.
"Will people then stick with you? Or will they suddenly start saying - oh no, they're just inexperienced.
"You have had seven new players here and Gareth Bale has left. We're talking about them needing a year to settle in the Premier League.
"Straight away, you're up against it. And then they're talking about finishing in fourth place? How are you going to do that, realistically? I never even thought that was feasible at the start of the season.
"If we don't win games, we've no chance of keeping these jobs. It's as simple as that. So we haven't got time to implement a philosophy. We can just tweak one or two things.
"Does that mean we are playing the way we really want to play? No, not really.
"You'd love to go into somewhere and say; this is the vision. We have been thrust in and told, there you go, you've got 18 months.
"There is no secret to the fact that we want to play attacking football.
"But when we first took over and Tim played Emanuel Adebayor and Roberto Soldado together, people said 'It's just the Harry Redknapp way. Its 4-4-2'.
"I thought, hang on Manchester City have done that all season, scored more than 100 goals and nobody said they play 4-4-2.
"Because Tim is English, it was all - he's gone back to the old way. It gets on my nerves."
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