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Wayne Rooney reckons Tottenham need to get someone like Roy Keane into the manager's hotseat if they are to survive relegation this season.

Spurs are embroiled in a Premier League relegation battle after a calamitous season and concerns are growing with their interim head coach, Igor Tudor , losing all four of his games since succeeding Thomas Frank last month.

The Croatian's position is already starting to be questioned with some pundits suggesting Tottenham will need to make another managerial change if they are to retain their top-flight status.

And Rooney feels the club need a no-nonsense character like Keane who is ready to 'go in and batter' Spurs' underperforming players.

“Those players need to look at themselves, I think they have been an absolute disgrace, I do, Rooney said on the Stick to Football podcast. “The performances, the attitude, the lack of desire, the lack of fight, the lack of anything in them.

“I was watching the Palace game the other day and I really felt sorry for Tottenham fans, they are not even angry anymore they are disappointed and sad.

“Them players need to look at themselves, this is a disgrace. I think they need someone to go in, like Roy, and batter them. They need some fear put into them.”

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Harry Redknapp , the former Spurs manager, is another name who has been touted to go in and perform a rescue act. And the 79-year-old revealed on Thursday that Daniel Levy, the club's ex-chairman, would try to get Redknapp in if he was still at Tottenham .

“I got a phone call last week from Daniel, funnily enough,” Redknapp told talkSPORT .

“I think I spoke to him once since I left all that time ago, and I was in the car last week and suddenly the phone goes, it's Daniel Levy.

“I thought 'that's strange' and I was on the phone to him for about half hour, chatting to him and he was explaining what happened to him, and how he got marched out of there, which was really strange.

“And he did say to me: 'If I was there now, and I'm not just saying it, I would bring you back in until the end of the season, Harry', so it would have been interesting.”

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