Tottenham 2-3 Wolves: I'll save judgement on Jose Mourinho until summer - Jermaine Jenas

[Russ ;x]

Everything seems to be wrong in Tottenham right now, and when I say it all, Jose Mourinho and his staff are involved in the training.

Sunday's 3-2 home defeat by Wolves was his third in a row, as he twice surrendered the lead.

They score goals but give up a lot and don't play particularly well for a while.

So, what exactly is happening in Tottenham and what areas can be improved?

Tottenham needs a system and stick to it
Watch the wolves on Sunday, in the best part of 50 minutes they were on third gear. They sounded a little sympathetic, but they always have that ability to go "come on their hands, wake up" and they just get ready for gear.

Everyone is in the right positions and before they know it is wide with Adama Traore or Matt Doherty and then they have the best striker in the league now through the middle in Raul Jimenez.

When you have a system like this in place and players are used to running it, you are stronger when hard times come because you can be more assertive and more solid.

However, Spurs are constantly playing in systems that they do not understand. There is no identity as to what a football club is now or what they want to be.

I can't remember the last time Tottenham played so well. They got results, but I can't see a system being implemented. Are they a team that'll miss? Are they the team that will pass between the lines? Are they a team playing from behind? Are they a team based on their game? Are they a team that depends on their game on a large scale? I just don't know what that is.

It is a major concern. Tottenham is the worst team to chase this fourth place - I don't see how they make the Champions League at this rate.

There is no doubt that the lack of Harry Kane and Son Heung-min will have an effect on your team. I may be very embarrassed when I lose your best players, but I am extremely important because it has been going on for a long time.

Constant chopping and changing not helping
In the weirdest way possible, I would rather be losing games but seeing a performance that suggests it is going to come good.

At the minute, I have not got a clue what I am going to turn up and see - I probably couldn't name four players that I know for a fact are going to start in the team.

Jose is always chopping and changing. I know he has the injury situation at the top end of the pitch but he just can't - or won't - pick players and rely on them. The system he won't stick with.

How he is behaving now is a little bit how Mauricio Pochettino was behaving at the end of his tenure as Tottenham manager, where he was trying everything to get it right.

There are not many teams in the history of football that, if they change their two center-halves as often as Tottenham do, are successful. Partnerships have to be made and Spurs do not have one right now.

Was Toby Alderweireld rested because of the baby situation on Sunday? That is not the manager's fault, but before that there had been a lot of changes - three at the back, Toby with Japhet Tanganga, Toby with Jan Vertonghen, Toby with Davinson Sanchez. On Sunday, Eric Dier came in out of nowhere and Dier is a player I continuously look at and feel he is not good enough to play for Tottenham right now, along with a couple of others.

Spurs have no pace, so utilize Ndombele
I look at Tanguy Ndombele and I am thinking £ 60m, I watched him at Lyon - a top midfield player when he is at it. He does seem to be sulking all the time, why that is I don't know. He doesn't seem to be happy, but whose job is it to put that right? The manager's. That is the point of managing - you have all these different personalities and you have to get the best out of each individual.

Jose needs to find a way to get Ndombele on to the pitch because the team just looks slow. Harry Winks isn't quick, Giovani lo Celso doesn't seem that quick. I wouldn't say Ben Davies is that quick, Dele Alli is not quick, Dier is slow. You go through that whole team and that dynamic element to a team, that athleticism you need in the Premier League, is not there.

Go through most top midfields right now, whether it is Liverpool or Manchester City, they all have pace to burn in major areas. Spurs have Lucas Moura and Steven Bergwijn and I saw Kyle Walker show Bergwijn a clean pair of heels the other day. He is not that quick, he is a strong runner but he is not rapid.

Ndombele would add that dynamism that you need in midfield.

Make-or-break summer ahead?
I just hope that when Jose sat down with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy before Pochettino was sacked there was a conversation between them that went along the lines of 'if I am going to be here, I want to be here for a long period of time to build something and I need your backing to get the players in that I need and get the players out that I want out '.

For too long now, the lack of planning and their inactive nature in the market has cost Tottenham. This is a massive summer ahead for them. Massive. Hopefully, they are on the same wavelength in terms of what they need and what Jose wants.

In my eyes, Jose is not a manager who challenges for the top four. You get him in to win a title or the league. The club have to look at themselves and ask what is the point of bringing Jose in if they are not going to give him the artillery he needs to go and get the job done.

I would hope come the summer he is given everything that he needs. He obviously cannot go and buy everybody but the club needs to bend far more than it did for pochettino - they should have given him what he deserved.

If that conversation happened and Jose doesn't get what he wants, I only see this ending in tears.