French World Cup winner Hugo Lloris questioned the wider nature of what is happening at Tottenham Hotspur after Thursday's shock Europa League exit.
Leading Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 after the first-leg, Jose Mourinho's team were not expected to have much trouble progressing to the Europa League quarter-final.
Yet, it is the ignominy of a 3-0 defeat and a shock exit from the competition is what Spurs must now deal with.
"I think we are all more than disappointed, it is just a disgrace," goalkeeper Hugo Lloris told BT Sport. "I just hope everyone in the changing room feels responsible for this situation because it is a disgrace.
"We are a club full of ambition but I just think the team at the moment is just the reflection of what's going on in the club.
"We have a lack of basics, a lack of fundamental[s] and all our performances are [related] to that. When you are not ready at this level, you pay."
"It's just a disgrace. I hope everyone in the changing room feels responsible."
Hugo Lloris didn't hold back following Tottenham's Europa League exit.#UEL pic.twitter.com/dl7JZYS8am— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) March 18, 2021
Signed by Andres Villas-Boas to Spurs in 2012, Lloris was remarkably frank - albeit deliberately vague - in his criticism of people within the club.
"It is one thing to come in front of the camera and say, 'I'm ambitious'," he stated. "It is another thing to show it every day in training and every day on the pitch. You cannot let it down if you play or don't play [and] to behave as a team is the most difficult thing in football.
"Whatever the decision [the manager makes], you have to follow the way of the team. If you follow the team only when you are in the starting XI, that causes big problems for the team.
"Today is a consequence of that."
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An instrumental part of the team Mauricio Pochettino guided to a Champions League final in 2018, Hugo Lloris believes this Spurs team are a sizable way shy of this level.
"In the past, we could trust the togetherness that was in the team," he explained. "Today, I don't know, I'm not sure about that."
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