Tottenham: Ange Postecoglou makes 'urgent' Spurs transfer admission as injuries mount

Ange Postecoglou is not expecting immoderate imminent caller signings astatine Tottenham, but says the nine volition workout “urgency” successful the transportation marketplace aft different decision and with much injuries piling up.

Spurs person lone signed 21-year-old goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky from Czech broadside Slavia Prague truthful acold this month, portion teenage winger Yang Min-hyeok besides completed his determination from Gangwon FC successful South Korea that was agreed successful the summer.

That is contempt a wretched tally of Premier League signifier that has seen Tottenham triumph conscionable 1 of their past 10 matches and led to morganatic worries implicit yet being dragged into a imaginable relegation fight.

Spurs’ database of absentees for the travel to Goodison Park again stretched into treble digits with the latest worsening of an wounded situation that has blighted their squad passim a pugnacious wintertime period, with forwards Dominic Solanke (hamstring) and Brennan Johnson (calf) some present set for weeks connected the sidelines and midfielder Yves Bissouma besides absent connected Merseyside with a knock, joining Guglielmo Vicario, Destiny Udogie, Timo Werner, Rodrigo Bentancur, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Wilson Odobert successful missing the game.

Of that number, lone Bentancur could perchance beryllium backmost soon arsenic helium goes done concussion protocols pursuing a caput wounded sustained successful the Carabao Cup semi-final first-leg triumph implicit Liverpool earlier this month. Tottenham look an adjacent worse predicament for Thursday night’s Europa League travel to Hoffenheim successful Germany with full-backs Djed Spence and Sergio Reguilon some ineligible to play.

“There volition beryllium urgency, but it doesn't request maine to accidental it,” Postecoglou told Sky Sports connected Tottenham’s transportation hunt aft the nonaccomplishment astatine Everton.

“Everybody tin spot that. I've nary issues with however the nine are going astir it, they are moving hard and trying to find solutions.

“These players request assistance that is for definite and hopefully implicit the adjacent 10 days oregon truthful we'll find a solution. It is truly tricky, we're not the lone ones successful the market. The nine are trying hard.”

Asked successful his post-match property league if determination was immoderate motion of imminent transportation activity, the Australian said: “Look, arsenic I said during the week, I'm definite similar everybody, the club's good alert of our concern and they're doing their utmost.

“As acold arsenic I cognize astatine the infinitesimal there's thing imminent, but you know, I presume betwixt present and we're getting to the extremity of the model that hopefully thing comes up.”

When enactment to Postecoglou that caller signings are tied successful with his aboriginal arsenic helium does not presently person the numbers indispensable to conflict to affirmative results, helium added: “I abstracted myself from that. This is not astir me, but what is astir maine close present is I person the work of the radical of players I bash have, to effort and get america done this, and that's what I've got to absorption on.

“For maine to absorption connected thing other is abstaining myself from the work I have. I'm conscionable determined to get america retired of this. The club's doing its best. It’s much astir helping the players than helping maine due to the fact that they're the ones we're asking immoderate monolithic jobs of. 18-year-olds.

“We had a 17-year-old retired determination trying to triumph games of shot for us. And others who are conscionable playing week connected week, so, you cognize it's much astir getting the players assistance alternatively than maine help.”

Postecoglou reiterated that the request for caller signings astatine Tottenham was evident adjacent earlier the latest injuries to Solanke and Johnson.

“I mean it doesn't truly [increase the request for much players]. I mean I deliberation it was beauteous evident earlier that, but yeah, similar I said, we had 11 oregon 12 missing contiguous and we've got to spot however Rodri's [Bentancur] going done the protocols. Apart from him, nary 1 other is truly owed to travel back.

“We've got a European crippled connected Thursday, we evidently can't usage Djed oregon Reguilon successful that, truthful we're successful this situation.”