Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has spoken about the new-found belief in the camp and described Juande Ramos as being “obsessed with winning”.

The Spaniard took charge at White Hart Lane in October and helped Spurs end their nine-year trophy drought with the Carling Cup and with that guaranteed another UEFA Cup campaign.

The north-London club also recovered from the disastrous early season period under Martin Jol in the Premiership and are looking to enter top half of the table with six games left.

Ramos is expected to make sweeping changes in the summer as he aims to make the side challenge the big four, and Levy said in the Daily Mail: "If you believe you can be successful, you've got more chance than if you don't.

"It's very important to have a leader who really believes he can deliver success - because that filters through. We did not anticipate winning a cup so early. But Juande is highly intelligent, a real motivator - and it's all about the team, not him. I didn't realise the extent to which he's obsessed with winning."

On the transfer policy, he said: "It's not about how much you spend on players - it's how you spend it.

"Arsenal are the best example of being incredibly skilful in acquiring younger players or doing certain transfers that have not cost a lot of money.

"Over the years, they've spent considerably less money than us on a net basis - but look at the success they've had."

"Sometimes in transfers you have to take opportunities when they present themselves. It was never a case, as some people are suggesting, of spending the money on a striker without being able to bring in anyone else," he continued.

"One of the reasons we decided to bring him [Darren Bent] in was that we believed one of our other strikers [Jermain Defoe] may be going. Okay, it didn't happen at the time. But we took the view we wanted a target man - and there are not that many.

"We knew were paying a full price but we were competing with a lot of other clubs and took a long-term view."