José Mourinho has conceded that Tottenham know that issues in the current squad must be addressed this summer.
Spurs sit in seventh place in the Premier League table with 10 games to go this season, with a five-point gap to make up on fourth-placed Chelsea.
After their FA Cup exit in midweek, they’ll hope to avoid a similar fate in the Champions League as they face a 1-0 deficit against RB Leipzig ahead of the second leg in their round-of-16 tie next week.
Injuries have hurt them in recent weeks with both Harry Kane and Heung Min-Son sidelined, and it appears as though Mourinho and the club will learn their lessons from the injury troubles this season.
“We know that we have to build a squad more balanced for next season,” said Mourinho, as quoted by BBC Sport.
“You have to be ready to cope with these unpredictable things. We have to prepare ourselves for something similar to happen again, and we have to build a squad that protects against this kind of situation.
“But I believe that any club that loses four fundamental players at the same time, doesn’t matter the squad you have, any team would always feel a situation like this.”
Hugo Lloris and Moussa Sissoko have also suffered lengthy setbacks this season and so injuries have been a problem for Spurs in their push to compete on multiple fronts.
Based on his comments above though, Mourinho will hope to find solutions this summer to avoid a repeat moving forward, while his response also suggested that the club hierarchy is in agreement.
Yes. But try telling that to the Saps that fork out for Season Tickets.
This has been the situation for nearly five seasons. We have never had the required depth to compete in all competitions. Kane and Son have missed chunks of seasons through injury consistently. Moussa Dembele was injured and missing many times.Lamela has been more out than in. We have never had cover at full back or dm. The situation is one of Levy’s and ENIC’s making and reflects owners who see the football business as maximising revenues whilst minimising investment with no interest in success as a team. Nothing will change until they leave. If we fail to get CL football then we will struggle to hold onto Kane and Son in the summer. Levy will do a Bale and sell Kane and buy a load of cheaper options that he thinks will increase in value and the club will issue another statement about another project blah blah blah. I love Spurs but I loathe the parasites that are suffocating our club and it’s supporters and who have done for the past twenty years. LEVY/ENIC out !
“while his response also suggested that the club hierarchy is in agreement.” Have you lost your marbles? Why is it any different this time to the last twenty years? How many mangers have built good sides only to be betrayed by Levy’s inadequacies in the transfer market? For all the Poch haters on this site, he warned the board eighteen months ago that the squad needed substantial reinforcing, but Levy’s response was his normal pathetic Pavlovian dog reaction that we had to sell first before we buy. This coming from the eighth richest club in the world! Is it good financial management to sell Eriksen for 16 mill, having valued him at circa 130-140 mill? Was it clever to sell Dembele for 12 mill, in the January window, having valued him at 30 mill even though he was semi crocked. Wanyama has gone on a free, why?
Is the real reason there was no money for transfers because Levy went 100% over budget with the stadium costs? Or is the real reason that Levy has to make sure that Enic get their pound of flesh first, and his over inflated salary before he considers the needs of the team. I will be amazed if Kane is here next season , and who could blame him? Levy has reigned for over twenty years, treating the supporters with contempt, and there is only one winner here and that is Enic. The club has become dysfunctional and stinks of toxicity and when a situation like this happens over time, you have to cut off the head of the snake.
Mourinho might be making these pointed statements towards Levy,but is he listening.Or does he even care.