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JUANDE Ramos has embraced the task of breaking Tottenham into the top four of the Barclays Premier League and has called for continued financial backing to build a squad capable of it.

Ramos arrived at White Hart Lane last October and won the Carling Cup within four months, with the cost of luring him from Sevilla reducing Spurs' profits in their interim financial results.

In announcing the figures, chairman Daniel Levy stated the ambition of establishing Spurs as a main contender'' under head coach Ramos.

He said: I'm very happy that the chairman has expressed that opinion, that he wants the team to progress.

If, on a sporting level, the club has to be more ambitious then we have to prepare the team in order to fight to get into the top four.

If that is the objective of the club then I'm delighted.'' Spurs finished fifth in the last two seasons but there were doubts whether Martin Jol could take them to the next level, leading to the messy recruitment of Ramos.

The departure of Jol, assistant Chris Hughton and goalkeeping coach Hans Segers - with Ramos and his staff taking over - were factors behind the decrease in profits for the last six months of 2007 from £14.2m to £9.9m.

Ramos changed training regimes and diets but he was also helped by the club recruiting Jonathan Woodgate and Alan Hutton

8:46am Saturday 29th March 2008

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