Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor has jumped to the defence of manager Mauricio Pochettino.
Tottenham have now lost five league games already in the current campaign and have seven fewer points than they did under Andre Villas-Boas at the same stage last season.
Villas-Boas was sacked in December last year but Adebayor insists Pochettino is not to blame for the club's poor form.
"Obviously all managers bring their own philosophies, the way they see football, the way they see games," Adebayor said.
"But come on, this the third or fourth manager in two or three years so we just have to stop it now being about the manager.
"He's a good manager and we just have to find a way so that we can try to understand what he wants to tell us and how he wants us to play and put that on the pitch.
"If every player could do what the manager wants then we would win the Champions League but at the moment we are not getting the message.
"To me, he is a good manager and a good man - we just have to get what he is telling us."
