Juande Ramos has insisted that he will not change his approach to managing Tottenham despite the club's disastrous start to the season.

Chairman Daniel Levy is keen for the Spaniard to adopt a more 'English' coaching style at White Hart Lane and wants Ramos to employ a new homegrown assistant.

The club's board are also understood to be uneasy at the way Ramos is saving injury-prone skipper Ledley King for cup matches when his help is desperately needed in the Premier League.

Levy reassured Ramos that his job was safe at a meeting yesterday before flying out to America on business, but the chairman wants to see the manager approach his job differently.

The former Sevilla coach has seen his 'continental' training methods and dietary regime come under increasing fire in recent weeks with reports claiming the players are struggling to understand his tactics and training sessions.

There are also suggestions they have suffered from hunger before games because of his strict rules on what they can eat.

Spurs are now four points adrift at the foot of the table and have still to win in the League this season, but Ramos has said he will resist all attempts to get him to change his ways.

A source close to the manager said: "All that talk is rubbish. These were the same methods that helped Spurs win the Carling Cup Final last season and no one was complaining then. Maybe the stories have come from a player who is not in the team or that player's agent, but Juande is sticking with it because it works.

"The fact is Juande is staying. There was a meeting with everybody and he has been given time. He has been told the board trust in him.

"Of course he is worried about the results, but he is not feeling the pressure. He certainly won't resign and walk away. He feels that the luck has gone against them and that will soon change."

Sporting director Damien Comolli has been blamed by many fans for the club's poor start after a number of his signings failed to make an impact.

The Frenchman received fresh praise from Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger yesterday but does now look like paying the price for his failures in the transfer market over the summer and is expected to be sacked. Ramos has seen star strikers Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane sold in the summer without a proven scorer in the Premier League replacing them.

"Tottenham are not scoring goals and in the summer they sold two strikers who have scored 100 goals in the past two seasons," the source added.

But Ramos hasn't helped his own cause by not picking King in the costly defeat at Stoke on Sunday when he was fully fit to play.