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Tottenham Hotspur must now find themselves three players in the transfer window that strengthen Thomas Frank's starting XI and squad and they must do it at the most difficult point of the window.
Spurs failed to sign Eberechi Eze after a long-winded chase ended with a deal agreed with Crystal Palace only for Arsenal to swoop in for their former academy player. That meant Tottenham had failed in two drawn-out transfer pursuits for a number 10 this summer after failing to land Morgan Gibbs-White from Nottingham Forest in July.
Now the club is scrambling in the final week-and-a-half of the transfer window to not only provide Frank with a number 10 but also a winger and another central defender.
With Mohammed Kudus and the on-loan Joao Palhinha the only new faces this season so far, Tottenham are a long way behind many of the other clubs they want to compete with in the Premier League who have signed a smattering of players and spent well over £200million on them.
All of those months in the window have been wasted and now clubs will see Spurs, technical director Johan Lange and chairman Daniel Levy coming from a mile away in these final days and hear the unspent cash from the failed Eze and Gibbs-White deals jingling in their pocket, along with a so far unsuccessful attempt to sign Savinho from Manchester City.
It's also a period when selling clubs have precious little time to replace players which either knocks up prices or makes some moves impossible.
Our Tottenham correspondents Alasdair Gold and Rob Guest discussed those current transfer problems at the club, Cristian Romero's new contract and the trip to Manchester City this weekend in the latest episode of their Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham podcast. You can listen to the new episode of the show by heading right here or watch it on YouTube by going right here.
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