It took Paul Gascoigne one visit to Tottenham’s training ground to recognise things would not get better overnight.Spurs are at real risk of a third-straight season from hell as they sit in last place, having collected just two points from their opening five Premier League fixtures.Tottenham had to wait until the 86th minute against Villa to score their first league goal this seasonGettyIt is officially Tottenham’s worst start to a Premier League campaign after five games, with a 3-2 loss at home against Aston Villa on Saturday their latest slip-up.Spurs had the same amount of points to start the 2008/09 season but were three goals better in terms of their differential (-3) compared to now (-6).Adding to Spurs’ woes is that the defeat to Villa was their 22nd loss at home since the start of the 2024/25 campaign.As brutal as Spurs’ malaise has been, Gascoigne, who represented the club from 1988 to 1992, saw it coming.Paul Gascoigne’s verdict on Tottenham’s struggles“Last season was incredible, I went to their training ground, it was unbelievable,” Gascoigne said on talkSPORT Breakfast.“And straight away in my head, I thought, ‘They are going to struggle.’“Because everything is on a plate for them, when I played, the stuff and equipment we had…“Everything is on a plate for them, but they have got to buck their ideas up.“The fans were fantastic when I was there, so they’ve got to do better this season.”As Gascoigne suggested, Tottenham must indeed do better.‘Gazza’ believes Spurs players are simply too pampered these daystalkSPORTTo do worse would result in relegation, given Spurs have finished 17th for two consecutive seasons.Life as a Championship club is not something Tottenham has experienced since the Premier League’s inception in 1992, with Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Everton the only other teams not to have been relegated.Roberto De Zerbi’s brutal assessment of SpursGascoigne’s brutal assessment of Spurs follows manager Roberto De Zerbi’s claim he’d never managed a team so ‘fragile’ in his 14 years of coaching.“You’re good, or you’re bad,” De Zerbi told talkSPORT following the Villa loss.“You can’t be very good in the first 30, 40 minutes, and then concede like this in this way.“It’s tough to accept for me.”Who does Tottenham play next?De Zerbi and his players now have three weeks to stew on the fact they’re last in the Premier League due to the international break.But the fixtures don’t get any kinder for Spurs once the Premier League returns, as they travel to Old Trafford on October 10 for a clash against Manchester United.Limited tickets, including VIP meet and greet, for Sports Stars Stories: An Evening with Paul Gascoigne, The Watford Palace Theatre, Saturday 26th September, are on sale now. Visit https://watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk/events/an-evening-with-paul-gascoigne/