Mathys Tel is a major coup but Tottenham might have missed another golden opportunity

In the end, Tottenham yet landed the "help" Ange Postecoglou truthful desperately wanted for his stretched squad, signing centre-half Kevin Danso and guardant Mathys Tel successful the last 36 hours of the window.

Tel is simply a large coup for Spurs, particularly arsenic the 19-year-old besides attracted involvement from Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea and his indebtedness woody from Bayern Munich includes a bargain enactment worthy £45.7million astatine the extremity of the season.

The French guardant is 1 of the astir highly-rated young players successful Europe and his accomplishment is successful keeping with Spurs' argumentation of recruiting talented teenagers who tin lend present portion perchance processing into superstars.

For Spurs, the operation of the woody is simply a win-win, with Tel providing extent for each 3 guardant positions successful Postecoglou's strategy for the remainder of the campaign, but the nine not tied to an costly woody if helium struggles to settee successful London oregon accommodate to the Premier League.

Danso, meanwhile, is simply a well-regarded Austria defender who is coming into his premier and should beryllium a bully acceptable for Postecoglou's system.

He volition beryllium successful information to commencement Thursday's Carabao Cup necktie astatine Liverpool aft Spurs lined-up astatine Brentford connected Sunday without a specializer centre-half.

It is, however, efficaciously 1 in, 1 retired for Postecoglou astatine the backmost aft Radu Dragusin was ruled retired for the play with an anterior cruciate ligament wounded and Spurs failed to onshore a 2nd caller defender earlier the Monday's 11pm deadline.

In a frantic scramble, they were knocked backmost by AC Milan’s Fikayo Tomori and Chelsea's Axel Disasi, and failed successful a important bid worthy up to £70m for Crystal Palace skipper Marc Guehi.

It was evident from agelong earlier the commencement of January that Spurs were successful chronic request of antiaircraft reinforcements, and had the nine moved with greater urgency successful the model - arsenic they did a twelvemonth ago, erstwhile Dragusin joined from Genoa connected January 12 - they mightiness person avoided an embarrassing and unsuccessful trolly dash.

In waiting truthful agelong to act, Postecoglou has been near to anticipation that Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero get acceptable and enactment acceptable successful the 2nd fractional of the play if Spurs are to debar a continuation of the antiaircraft enactment situation which has crippled them since the commencement of November.

The recoveries of some Van de Ven and Romero are proving thing but straightforward, however, truthful Spurs' nonaccomplishment to onshore different defender could hamper their chances of salvaging a unsmooth play via the cupful competitions.

There is besides tremendous unit connected Danso to deed the crushed moving for the biggest week of the club's season, with Spurs travelling to Anfield 1-0 up from the archetypal limb of their Carabao Cup semi-final earlier Sunday's FA Cup fourth-round necktie astatine Villa.

Had Spurs moved for the 26-year-old (or different defender) sooner, helium would person had clip to bed-in for a brace of matches which consciousness perchance make-or-break to Spurs' run and possibly adjacent Postecoglou's tenure.

Spurs besides signed promising young goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky astatine the commencement of January and, successful the fullness of time, this mightiness travel to look similar an important window, peculiarly if Tel tin beryllium persuaded to motion a imperishable six-year woody successful the summertime and begins to unrecorded up to his evident potential.

In the present and now, though, the nine needed much than a like-for-like replacement for Dragusin, a back-up goalkeeper and different promising young forward, who volition apt request clip to adjust, to springiness themselves the champion accidental of rescuing the campaign.

As Postecoglou has repeatedly pointed retired during this bleak mid-winter, the nine are inactive successful with a accidental of achieving "something special" and enjoying an historical play by winning 1 of the cups.

In the circumstances, the nine needed to beryllium decisive and brave successful the transportation model but alternatively they appeared to beryllium driven mostly by opportunism.

If the toll connected Spurs' injury-hit and jaded backmost enactment proves excessively overmuch successful the 2nd fractional of the season, this January whitethorn travel to consciousness similar different accidental squandered.