Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has rejected his team are back to their 'Spursy' ways.
Amid a major form slide, pundits are claiming the team has fallen back to their old habits.
"That's schoolyard stuff. All I need to know is that this club hasn't won anything for 15 years. That's all I need to know. Why that is, and why others may think that is, and whatever tag, that's the reality. There's no getting away from that," Postecoglou responded.
"There's no point in me trying to disguise that, or anybody else at this football club trying to disguise that. If you want to be successful, then like most organisations, you've got to learn from the mistakes of the past, you've got to come up with a plan, you've got to stick to it.
"Whatever tags other people want to put on it, that can't be your motivation, that can't be what drives you. If you want to bring success, you've got to have a clear idea of how you're going to go about it and stick to the process."
He added: "[The Spursy tag] shouldn't weigh the new players down because they have no history. Whether it weighs the ones that have been here, that's something that is hard for me to gauge, but it's not something I reflect on or talk about from a historical perspective.
"All you can do is chart your way forward. If you want to change perceptions, there is only one way to do it. People are not going change their minds and change what they think about you because you want them to. You've got to give them a reason to. That's the position we're in. That's why I'm here because the club wanted to change its course. That's what I'm doing.
"I said from day one, change means change, changing everything. If it means changing mindset because people are carrying scars from the past, let's get rid of them. You can't just wish upon things. Things have to happen. You have to change the course of what you're doing. That's what I've embarked on.
"I'm at pains to say it, and it sounds repetitive, but we're just at the beginning. For my mind, what we need to look like, we've got a long way to go, notwithstanding in the short term we've still got to provide reward for our supporters and make sure as a football club we're in the position we need to be."
