Johan Lange makes Tottenham summer transfer vow as he explains January window

Johan Lange has explained the reason for Tottenham's lack of January transfer activity and hinted at big movement for the summer

Tottenham technical director Johan Lange has delivered clear verdicts on the January window and plans for the summer. Conor Gallagher and Brazilian left-back Souza joined the club while Brennan Johnson completed a permanent move to Crystal Palace.

Despite being ravaged by injuries, with more of those arriving in January, those were the only two additions with Lange revealing why that was the case and what the aim is ahead of the 2026/27 season.

He told Tottenham's official channels: "The summer market is where eight or nine out of 10 players, they move clubs, so we will go into the summer window with big ambitions of strengthening the team. We know there'll be more movements, we know there'll be more opportunities, so the plans are already, can you see, drawn up.

"We have a clear picture of which position and also which profiles. Could we have brought one or two more in this January window? We would have been delighted to do so. but that was not a possibility.

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"So, we are looking forward to the summer, now we focus on the rest of the season and that is very, very important as well because we have big objectives. We're still in the Champions League."

"We want to, of course, be higher in the Premier League and then myself and others will have our eyes already now directed towards the summer transfer window.”

Though losing Richarlison, Pedro Porro and Lucas Bergvall to significant injuries made the need for new signings clear, Lange has instead used those problems to explain why no further transfers were sanctioned with Champions League registration regulations and complying with profit and sustainability rules listed as other reasons.

He admitted: "First, a lot of our injured players, they will return in this season here, hopefully a number of them quite shortly.

There are also some limitations to how many players you can have in a squad to register them, but even though that our financial situation under the rules are better than most clubs, and we have owners who are very willing to invest, it is important that we are under those rules.

"So, it is important that we sign the right players. I think also Thomas has been quite clear on two players we wanted to bring in, but it wasn't a lack of willingness for the club to make the investment to support the team.”

On wanting to ensure signings made in January fit the long-term strategy, he added: “It's a bit of both, because we were very clear before the window that if there were players available that we were able to sign in this window that could help the team now, but of course also in the future, then we were ready to go.

"But when during the window you can see that some doors remain open, like, for instance, with Conor, some other doors close, then it's very important that you don't, can you say, force yourself in to make a stress purchases, because that normally doesn't end well for anyone.”