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Ange Postecoglou said Tottenham have hard work to do if they are to become serious challengers for the Premier League title, forecasting there will be changes to the list.

Spurs, fifth in the table, suffered a third consecutive defeat on Friday, losing 2-0 at Chelsea, following a 3-2 loss at home to arch-rivals Arsenal last week and a 4-0 hammering at Newcastle.

The club look likely to miss out on a spot in next season’s Champions League -- they are seven points behind Aston Villa with just four games remaining, though they have a match in hand.

Tottenham, early pacesetters in the Premier League this season, have not won a major trophy since lifting the 2008 League Cup and it is more than 60 years since they were last crowned champions of England.

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“We need change. Change has to happen,” Postecoglou said.

“You can’t want to alter your course quite dramatically for this club because we went down a certain direction. And now we’re pivoting to a whole different direction, expect the same people are going to be on that. It’s just not going to happen.

“We’ve had two windows and we’ve had some development of players, for sure, but when I say we’ve still got a long way to go, that’s what I’m talking about. We can’t be there yet because it’s impossible to say you’re going to have drastic change and yet expect everyone to be on that journey.

“It’s not for the want of trying. It’s just that we’re going to play a certain way, we’re going to train a certain way, we’re going to have a certain mindset and that’s not for everyone. And the same way, whether it’s Liverpool or Arsenal, if you look at the beginning of

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