Shambles at Spurs as Poyet admits two main strikers can't play together

His remarks came as Jermaine Jenas revealed Juande Ramos was starting to feel the strain of being bottom of the League after the 2-0 defeat at Portsmouth.

Ramos was mocked by the Spurs fans when he replaced lone striker Roman Pavlyuchenko with Darren Bent, instead of putting them together for the final 17 minutes, and Poyet believes the pair are incompatible.

He said: "For the one-and-a-half games that they [Pavlyuchenko and Bent] played together, it did not work for us.

"They are the same type of player, so it is difficult for them to play together."

With only one other senior forward, on-loan Manchester United man Fraizer Campbell, on the books, it begs the question why £14million Pavlyuchenko was signed and places sporting director Damien Comolli's role in the transfer under even more scrutiny.

Ramos, who has yet to field an unchanged starting XI this season and admitted yesterday that his job is on the line, will be worried to learn that six of the club's last seven managers have been sacked between September and November.

When asked about his future, the Spaniard, who is believed to be homesick, said: "That does not depend on me. We have a chairman and a board who decide that sort of thing."

Jenas said that the pressure was starting to tell after Spurs' fourth defeat of the season.

Tottenham did not force David James into action until the 87th minute by which time the travelling fans had let Ramos know their feelings with chants of: "You don't know what you're doing."

Jenas later revealed: "The manager gets very angry at certain things, but he also has a very level head.

"The players know that we have not been up to our usual standards.

"The confidence is never going to be sky-high when you are not winning games, and one or two players are maybe lacking a bit of that confidence."

Ramos, who must now hope for a better performance against Wisla Krakow in the UEFA Cup on Thursday, added: "The chants do not hurt. What hurts is not winning games."

But Jenas warned that must play better as they take a 2-1 lead to Poland: "We need to improve a lot," the midfielder said.