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[Getty Images] Tottenham's relegation battle is a result of poor recruitment after losing big figures at the club, says BBC Sport senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel. For the second season running, Spurs have found themselves down the wrong end of the Premier League table, with this campaign seeing them in a genuine fight for top-flight survival as they sit just one point above West Ham in the relegation zone. "Quality counts at the end of the day," Mokbel told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast.
"What has happened at Tottenham over the course of the past three or four years is that squad has been allowed to decay maybe. They lost Harry Kane, and any club in the world would suffer if they were to lose Harry Kane. "So they lost Kane, they lost Son Heung-min, the two who have been their main source of goals over the years.
And I have some sympathy with the club and the recruitment staff there because trying to replace those to players is nigh-on impossible. I don't know how you do it. "But regardless, they have had to replace them and unfortunately for them, the players they have been replaced with just haven't been up to scratch.
" Despite their form seeing them slide towards those danger places, there were some positives for fans to take from a hard-earned point away at Liverpool on Sunday. "We need to be careful to not over egg the pudding. It is still just a point, albeit a very good one at Anfield," Mokbel added.
"But also, my understanding going into Sunday's game was that a defeat, certainly a heavy defeat and poor performance, would have cost Igor Tudor his job. "There is some room for optimism if you are a Tottenham fan, but we still have to point out that he is very much not out of the woods. He is on the cusp of a very big week.