Tottenham transfer planning underway as Ange Postecoglou confirms Johan Lange meetings

Ange Postecoglou says Tottenham's January transportation concern volition beryllium connected the authorities of his squad aft revealing helium has already held "a fig of meetings" with method manager Johan Lange astir the wintertime window.

Postecoglou's squad is presently stretched by the Thursday-Sunday docket and semipermanent injuries to Richarlison, Wilson Odobert, Micky van de Ven (all hamstring) and Guglielmo Vicario (ankle surgery), arsenic good arsenic Rodrigo Bentancur's seven-match home ban.

Asked astir the club's January transportation plans, Postecoglou said: "We're ever planning, readying for each scenario.

"A batch of it volition beryllium connected wherever we are arsenic a squad astatine that time. Between present and then, it is lone truly Romero and Van de Ven who volition beryllium backmost successful that clip frame.

“But Richy volition hopefully beryllium backmost successful the New Year and we volition conscionable measure wherever we are squad-wise but certainly, with Johan I've already had a fig of meetings for a strategy successful January.

"I deliberation past twelvemonth we did a small spot of concern which ended up helping us, but thing factual present due to the fact that January is ever tricky and it depends connected wherever we are squad-wise."

Postecoglou believes the days of streamlined squads are coming to an end, with clubs needing bigger rosters to header with the ever-increasing schedule.

"It is not conscionable the fixtures, it is the attrition rate, we've got a batch of injuries but a batch of clubs have," helium added.

"I deliberation we've been talking astir it for a portion but astatine immoderate point, it is going to travel location to roost for each the powers that beryllium due to the fact that players are getting overloaded, determination is nary uncertainty astir that, determination is excessively overmuch evidence.

“You're either going to get a diminished merchandise with the champion players not retired determination oregon clubs volition person to transportation bigger squads to cater for the demands of it."

Spurs had 5 teenagers connected the seat for Thursday's 2-2 gully with Roma in the Europa League, with Malachi Hardy and Luca Williams-Barnett, some 16, backmost astatine schoolhouse connected Friday morning.

Postecoglou believes Spurs are successful a beardown presumption connected aggregate fronts, contempt the "limiting factors" which person impacted their play truthful far.

"We're successful an OK presumption successful the league," helium said. "Safe to accidental we could beryllium successful a stronger presumption but we're inactive determination oregon thereabouts.

"We're inactive successful the Carabao Cup, we were retired of the Carabao Cup this clip past year. In Europe, we're inactive successful a bully presumption to get to the adjacent circular and we've had to woody with adversity. So, truthful acold our play has been solid.

"We've evidently had immoderate extremes which ever taints people’s representation of wherever we're astatine but I effort to measurement backmost and person a broader view. Again, we had 4 schoolboys connected the seat past nighttime - 2 were really astatine schoolhouse this morning.

“We're moving hard with immoderate beauteous limiting factors and inactive maintaining competitiveness successful the competitions we're in. We're successful an OK space."