Tottenham Hotspur have moved swiftly to dismiss a report in this morning’s newspaper that the north-London club are looking to replace boss Juande Ramos with Mark Hughes, who is currently the manager of Manchester City.

Spurs are stuck at the bottom of the Premiership table with just two points from six games with the White Hart Lane outfit having looked a disjointed lot ever since the start of the season with former Sevilla boss Ramos, who had guided Spurs to Carling Cup glory last season, surrounded by speculation over his future.

On Friday morning, a newspaper reported that Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is ready to offer former Welsh national team boss Hughes a £20million five-year deal to quit the Eastlands Stadium and move South to Spurs.

However, Tottenham have made a statement to rubbish the claims. “The Club largely refrains from making statements of this nature unless absolutely necessary in order to set the record straight in light of wholly inaccurate reporting,” said the statement.

“An article on the back page of this morning's Sun newspaper reports that the Club has made an offer to Mark Hughes to take over as manager during the forthcoming international break.

“This story is completely untrue and without foundation and the matter is being discussed with the publication.”