Leeds manager Terry Venables has admitted his job is on the line after the Yorkshire club's poor run of results.
The Elland Road club find themselves in 14th place in the Premiership after losing eight of Venables' 15 games in charge.
The former England manager only succeeded David O'Leary in the summer, but has conceded "it doesn't look like I'm getting time on this occasion" while also criticising the war of words between his predecessor and Leeds chairman Peter Ridsdale.
"The fact is the results are not good enough yet, and the players and the staff will be the first to say that," said Venables.
"If I feel that I am not doing well enough and it's not helping anyone, you've got to have a look at that because stubbornness is not a strength in my book.
"I think you've got to look at it and see how it can improve, and if you have to make a decision at some stage on that, you have to do it.
"But when I've had time I've always done well wherever I've gone. Now it doesn't look like I'm getting time on this occasion. The pressure has been on very, very, very early and that's been a bit of a shock.
"Something will have to happen, maybe. But it helps if they support the team. That is why they are called supporters.
"You do need patience, there's no doubt about it. All around the club we need to stick together a lot tighter than we have done."
The feud between O'Leary and Ridsdale reared its ugly head again at the weekend with the ex-manager claiming he was in no way to blame for Leeds' current demise after the chairman had previously suggested the current decline started under the Irishman.
O'Leary is still embroiled in a £2.5million compensation battle with Ridsdale and Leeds following his sacking in June.
The message from an unhappy and under-pressure Venables is clearly for both men to bury the hatchet and shut up because the friction between them is damaging the club.
Venables, who has never been sacked in his managerial career, has so far stated he will not walk away from Leeds, but his stance now appears to have shifted a little in the wake of the maelstrom which is swirling around Elland Road.
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