The BBC is reporting that the house cleaning at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has begun. Manager Juande Ramos, Sporting Director Damien Comolli, and first team coaches Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez are all looking for work after being sacked Saturday night ahead of their tie with Bolton Wanderers on Sunday. Clive Allen (Development Squad Coach) and Alex Inglethorpe (Youth Team Manager) will be in place for Tottenham for Sunday’s tie.

It’s a toss up over what Ramos will be most remembered for. Back in February, Tottenham won the Carling Cup with an extra time defeat of Chelsea 2-1, their first since the League Cup back in 1999. It could also be argued that he’ll be most remembered for the poor start to this season that ultimately saw him sacked.

The partnership between Ramos and Comolli never seemed to take off. It didn’t help either that Tottenham sold Robbie Keane and Berbatov in the last transfer window, without adequate replacement up front. It’s going to be difficult to judge Roman Pavlyuchenko this season as he’s played a full season in Russia and will probably fatigue before the whole season is over. Luka Modric hasn’t exactly fit into the system Ramos had at Tottenham.

In the same report, it has been reveiled that Portsmouth have agreed compensaion so that Harry Redknapp can take over as Tottenham’s manager. While it surprises me, I can understand why Redknapp would want to leave. If all the media reports are to be belived of late, Portsmouth are facing debts beyond their control and won’t be able to build their new ground. And in all fairness to Portsmouth, Redknapp has taken the team as far as he can go.

For Redknapp, it’s also another bottom of the table challenge. When Redknapp took over Portsmouth back in December 2005, Portsmouth were in the same situation Tottenham are in now. Can he keep Tottenham up?  Only time will tell.

What’s unfortunate for Tottenham and Portsmouth is that this happened so close to their Sunday fixture. However when changes need to be made, it’s best to go ahead and get them done and out of the way.

Thanks to Bishopville Red for tipping me off to this breaking piece of news.

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What’s most revealing about the demise of Tottenham Hotspur is not how Juande Ramos appears so dispassionate and out of his depth on the touchline, but how Spurs fans are blaming the downfall of their club on Damien Comolli and not Ramos.

In two separate polls conducted by EPL Talk, fans appear to more upset about Daniel Levy and Damien Comolli than they are about the former Sevilla manager. When asked which Spurs manager should have the job of managing the club if Tottenham would lose against Stoke, 58% of the respondents sided with Juande Ramos instead of people like Terry Venables, Harry Redknapp and Gus Poyet.

And when asked who is to blame for the disaster at Spurs, only 17% of the respondents blamed Ramos (at the time of writing this article).

To me, this is astonishing. Take any manager in the Premier League other than Juande Ramos and he would be able to do a better job at Tottenham that Ramos. Spurs have a team of world-class players at White Hart Lane with people such as Roman Pavlyuchenko, Luka Modric, David Bentley, Vedran Corluka, Jonathan Woodgate and Aaron Lennon. Managers like Phil Brown, Roy Hodgson, Steve Bruce and Gary Megson would kill to have players of that calibre available for selection each week.

While Damien Comolli is the recipient of most of the venom from Tottenham fans, it’s simply masking the true incompetence at the club which is Juande Ramos. The club is bottom of the league yet he’s unable to get his team playing with the passion necessary to pull themselves out of the hole.

The dark cloud hanging over White Hart Lane would be removed if and when Juande Ramos gets the sack, and a new manager steps in to give the players a kick up the backside and start playing with a plan in mind. Jermaine Jenas should not be the captain of this club. Instead, he should be moved to the bench based on his pitiful performances and lack of leadership. The list of changes goes on and on, but as long as Ramos is in charge, the future looks extremely bleak for Spurs.

The reality is that if Spurs fans got their wish and Comolli was ousted, the next to go would be Daniel Levy, then the players and then Ramos. Other than help Spurs win the Carling Cup, what has Ramos achieved? The team looks worse than it was one year when he took charge. To be honest, I have no idea why Spurs fans are so reluctant to let Ramos go. He’s dragging the team down so much that Championship football is becoming more of a reality as each week passes.

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