Pundit says ‘very strange’ situation has arisen at Spurs, Jose Mourinho should be worried

Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho has been warned by talkSPORT pundit Ray Parlour not to lose the dressing room because otherwise there’s “a real problem”.

Spurs have suffered a major downturn in form, falling to their fifth defeat in six matches on Saturday as Premier League leaders Manchester City ran out 3-0 winners.

Mourinho even called on the likes of Gareth Bale and Dele Alli in the game, two players who appear to have fallen out of favour with the manager.

Other players, such as Serge Aurier, Matt Doherty, Eric Dier and Harry Winks, are rumoured to have had their differences with the boss or otherwise been treated harshly this season.

And Parlour feels Mourinho may have burned his bridges with the likes of Bale and Alli, which doesn’t bode well for his standing amongst the rest of his squad.

“The dressing room is such an important area. The manager has got to keep everyone together, [make sure] everyone’s going in the right direction,” Parlour told talkSPORT.

“Has he lost a few people in the dressing room? Now, we don’t know, but Dele Alli, the Gareth Bale situation is very strange. What’s happened there?

“Aurier, there’s reports he’s unhappy with him [Mourinho], he stormed off at half-time.

“These guys talk in the dressing room, I’ve been in dressing rooms and players talk with each other about how the manager is treating certain players.

“It might be totally wrong, but if there is a small crack there with the players then there’s a real problem.”

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All is not well at Spurs, a team that was in the running for the title not long ago and appearing to have put its prior issues aside, now looking like a shadow of its former self.

There have been reports hinting at cracks in the dressing room and, if those were true, on top of the poor results and performances, then Mourinho would be on increasingly thin ice.

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