Poch cool on transfer plans
The difficult nature of the transfer market is again limiting Tottenham's options according to Mauricio Pochettino.
Last summer saw Spurs become the first club to fail to sign a single player since the window was introduced and they have again been quiet this month.
With Harry Kane and Dele Alli expected to be out for three months through and Son Heung-min away at the Asian Cup with South Korea, Pochettino appears to have his hands tied going into Thursday's EFL Cup clash with Chelsea, a game they are 5/1 to win, with the draw 31/10 and the Blues 8/13.
To find the right profile to help us I think is going to be difficult.
Mauricio Pochettino
Spurs take a 1-0 lead to Stamford Bridge thanks to Kane's penalty in the opening tie and have received a boost ahead of the game with the news that Lucas Moura, Moussa Sissoko and Victor Wanyama are all back in training.
It remains to be seen if any of the trio feature on Thursday and supporters have urged the club to add to their stocks this month in order to maintain their top four hopes.
Winning the EFL Cup, which Spurs are 3/1 to do, would certainly appease certain sections of the support and Pochettino has suggested that might have to be the solution, with any new arrivals unlikely before the deadline.
The Argentine insists the club are scouring the market but is adamant that they will only sign the right players if they become available.
"It's going to be difficult, as I told you in the past," he told reporters. "If it was difficult in the summer, because in the end we had the squad full - we didn't have space to sign players because we didn't sell players – now of course it's difficult too.
"Of course we're Tottenham and to find the right profile to help us I think is going to be difficult. But we're trying, we're trying to deliver something."
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The difficult nature of the transfer market is again limiting Tottenham's options according to Mauricio Pochettino.
Last summer saw Spurs become the first club to fail to sign a single player since the window was introduced and they have again been quiet this month.
With Harry Kane and Dele Alli expected to be out for three months through and Son Heung-min away at the Asian Cup with South Korea, Pochettino appears to have his hands tied going into Thursday's EFL Cup clash with Chelsea, a game they are 5/1 to win, with the draw 31/10 and the Blues 8/13.
To find the right profile to help us I think is going to be difficult.
Mauricio Pochettino
Spurs take a 1-0 lead to Stamford Bridge thanks to Kane's penalty in the opening tie and have received a boost ahead of the game with the news that Lucas Moura, Moussa Sissoko and Victor Wanyama are all back in training.
It remains to be seen if any of the trio feature on Thursday and supporters have urged the club to add to their stocks this month in order to maintain their top four hopes.
Winning the EFL Cup, which Spurs are 3/1 to do, would certainly appease certain sections of the support and Pochettino has suggested that might have to be the solution, with any new arrivals unlikely before the deadline.
The Argentine insists the club are scouring the market but is adamant that they will only sign the right players if they become available.
"It's going to be difficult, as I told you in the past," he told reporters. "If it was difficult in the summer, because in the end we had the squad full - we didn't have space to sign players because we didn't sell players – now of course it's difficult too.
"Of course we're Tottenham and to find the right profile to help us I think is going to be difficult. But we're trying, we're trying to deliver something."
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