Thomas Frank is under real pressure at Tottenham Hotspur.
Spurs are without a win in their last four Premier League matches, with a solitary point coming against Manchester United in that run, with three defeats to London rivals Chelsea, Arsenal and Fulham.
Supporters are turning against the former Brentford manager, with a real disconnect between the team and the fans present. Frank called out the supporters for booing goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario during Saturday's defeat to Fulham at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Pedro Porro coming out after the game and making a statement of his own, having been spotted getting angry with team-mate Lucas Bergvall after the final whistle.
Frank said: "I didn't like that our fans booed at him [Vicario] straight after and a few times he touched the ball. They can't be true Tottenham fans because everyone supports each other when you are on the pitch.
"And we do everything we can to perform. After, fair enough, boo, no problem. But not during. That's unacceptable in my opinion."
Porro wrote on Instagram: "Football is emotions. In football, as in life, there can always be mistakes. What I will not tolerate is hearing disrespect from the fans to my team-mates, hence my frustration at the end of the game."
Awful record
Defeat to Fulham meant it was just three home wins in the last 21 matches in N17 - a shocking statistic that Frank must turn around, with just one of those wins coming under him - the first game of the season against Burnley.
The reality is that Spurs have stagnated somewhat in the last six years - the Europa League triumph apart.
Since Mauricio Pochettino left the club, Tottenham have finished 6th, 7th, 4th, 8th, 5th and 17th, only qualifying for the Champions League once through the league and luckily through that Europa League triumph last year.
Frank is the fourth permanent manager in that time - the sixth to lead the team after interim periods under Cristian Stellini and Ryan Mason and what Pochettino - now manager of the US national team gearing up for the World Cup - said before he left has been ignored.
Better furniture required
Pochettino had just guided Spurs to fourth in the Premier League and the final of the Champions League, but those finishes did mask a slow downturn in performances from a team that had been together and gelled and excelled together over a period of five or so years.
Pochettino warned things would have to change and that it would be painful.
Speaking in 2019 he said: "When you talk about Tottenham, everyone says you have an amazing house but you need to put in the furniture.
“If you want to have a lovely house maybe you need better furniture. And it depends on your budget if you are going to spend money. We need to be respectful with teams like Manchester City or Liverpool who spend a lot of money. We are brave, we are clever, we are creative.
"Now it’s about creating another chapter and to have the clear idea of how we are going to build that new project. We need to rebuild. It’s going to be painful.”
What Tottenham have done since then is rebuild, rebuild and rebuild again under different managers. It has been painful for supporters, that is for sure, but there has not been a proper, focused rebuild of the squad.
Forty-two players have been signed permanently in that time frame, with a further nine joining the club on loan deals. But when those signings are spread across four different head coaches - five if you count that five of those transfers were made for Pochettino - it is not a true rebuild, when a new boss comes in with his own ideas, his own philosophy and perhaps a desire for different players to play a different way.
Trust the process
Spurs have lurched from one manager to the next and have had a squad that has constantly had to be changed and updated as a result. At some point you have to stick with the man at the helm and - for want of a better phrase that has become synonymous with a certain manager who was allowed time to create down the road - trust the process.
Daniel Levy's departure as chairman at the start of this season leaves Vinai Venkatesham and the Lewis family in charge in N17. It feels like a new era behind the scenes and it has already been confirmed that a £100million investment has been made that will help when it comes to the January transfer window.
That message of a painful rebuild has been completely ignored and whether it is Frank who is given the time and space to really make it stick, or another person at some point this season or next summer - Pochettino may be back on the market then after the World Cup has ended - who knows, but whatever happens, Tottenham need to get their next big decision right.
The supporters demand it.