Ange Postecoglou says he still expects Tottenham to be active in the transfer window
With just two weeks to go until the end of the transfer window, it seems Tottenham are not quite finished signing players just yet. Ange Postecoglou has hinted at what the club plans to do, and how it will affect the squad he has.
New transfers will not rock the boat
Spurs are thought to still be looking for a new winger, a new central midfielder, and maybe even another full-back, too.
But, with so much still to do, how will that impact the dynamic at the club in the coming weeks? Postecoglou has been speaking to the press (via Football.London) and reassured fans that there will be more activity in the market, albeit less frantic than last year.
He said: “Look, I think while it’s open there’s always kind of a little bit of uncertainty about because there are so many moving parts to it… it’s not just outgoings and incomings.
“As opposed to last year where there was a lot more moving parts, you’re working within a sort of smaller spectrum of uncertainty, certainly for me, anyway, that I can plan for the season knowing that the bulk of the work’s been done.
“Whatever we get from here on in is not going to disrupt us too much, both incoming and outgoing. So from that perspective, I think I said after the weekend I still expect there will be activity, but I think the uncertainty factor is a lot less than last year.”
Finding a striker was key
The signing of Dominic Solanke appears to be the main task ticked off Postecoglou’s shopping list this summer, of course.
Since the sale of Harry Kane last summer, Tottenham have needed to sign an out-and-out striker, and they finally have that.
Commenting on that acquisition, Postecoglou added: “Dom was important. Because even though it was settled, it was a tricky pre-season for us because we had the majority of our back four missing, and we didn’t have a striker because Richarlison was injured as well.
“We only had young Will [Lankshear], so when you don’t have those key elements, you’re trying to build a team but I thought we managed that really well. But I was super pleased to obviously get Dom in, and that’s coincided with Richarlison coming back, so from that perspective, it does give us a little bit more of a settled look of what the team’s going to look like moving forward.”
Spurs Web Opinion
If we can sign a new central midfielder and a new left-back, I would be very happy with where we are at. I think we’ve got enough young players, like Mikey Moore to cover on the wing, to negate the need to add in that area.
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