Christian Eriksen insists uncertainty surrounding his and some of his Tottenham team-mates' future is not the cause of their horrible start to the season.
Spurs have won just three of their 11 games so far in this campaign, losing to League Two Colchester in the Carabao Cup, thumped 7-2 by Bayern Munich in the Champions League and going down 3-0 at Brighton on Saturday.
Boss Mauricio Pochettino, who is finding himself under pressure just four months after leading the club to the Champions League final, has said that it will take time for Spurs to be united after several of his players had "different agendas".
Despite that insistence, Eriksen has been a shadow of the player that has seen him linked with the likes of Real Madrid, Juventus and Paris St Germain and has found himself in and out of Pochettino's team.
He does accept, however, that he is having his toughest time since joining the club in 2013.
"It's definitely my hardest time right now at Tottenham," he said.
"The first year when I came was probably a bit up and down, but since Pochettino came in 2014 it has been a success story.
"Expectations for us are at a completely different level now. We have to win every time and it's the same feeling we have as players as well.
"We as players must try to keep all the negative things completely out.
"But the reason for our results is actually hard to answer. We can't close the matches, even though we are ahead. But we have also been unlucky."
