Wayne Rooney makes Tottenham relegation prediction ahead of Liverpool vs Spurs | Football

Wayne Rooney believes Tottenham will be relegated from the Premier League this season and has urged Robbie Keane not to take the job at Spurs.

Igor Tudor suffered his fourth defeat in charge of Spurs this week as his side were beaten 5-2 by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.

Spurs now turn their attention to the Premier League where they sit just a point above the relegation zone and play Liverpool at Anfield this Sunday.

Tudor’s position as interim manager is already under scrutiny but Rooney believes Spurs will be relegated from the Premier League this season, regardless of whether they sack the Croatian.

‘The players need to look at themselves because I think they’ve been an absolute disgrace,’ Rooney said on Stick to Football.

‘The performances, the attitude, the lack of desire, the lack of fight and there’s a lack of everything in them.

‘Last week I didn’t but after seeing what’s happened in the last couple of games I think they will go down.’

Gary Neville added: ‘I don’t think they will go down. I think if you’re going to make another change that, for me, probably needs to be today or tomorrow because you don’t wait.

‘My view is they will make a change and stay up just. That’s what I think will happen.’

Rooney replied: ‘I think they’ll go down.

‘That’s what I’m saying, if I’m Robbie Keane I wouldn’t leave a job to go into Tottenham now.

‘If it was Sherwood or whoever who is out of a job I’d go in, but if I’m Robbie Keane there’s no way I’d leave a job to go into Tottenham.’

Neville then said: ‘I don’t think that group of players will buy into the idea of bringing someone in who’s not been a coach for a long time just because they used to play for the club. They’ll just see right through that. It’ll have to be someone who’s been coaching recently.

‘Sean Dyche would take that job now, 100 per cent. To be in the game and have a chance to manage a top-six team, I know they’re not at the moment, I know it’s ridiculous saying that, but they are a massive club.

‘Tudor’s tried to go in a bit harder, be a bit more regimented and disciplined. It’s not working, they’re 100 per cent rejecting him. They will need someone to go in who’s got more of a man-management ability.’

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