Jose Mourinho has revealed that he expects Tottenham to make signings this summer despite the financial cloud hanging over the club.
The Portuguese is used to working with big budgets and indeed one of his former clubs Chelsea has already confirmed the capture of Timo Werner from RB Leipzig, for a fee of around £48m, according to talkSPORT.
Mourinho has admitted that Spurs, facing huge Covid-19 losses and stadium debts, are in no position to be matching that sort of spending but he does anticipate the club making two or three additions in important areas.
BBC Sport quote Mourinho as saying: “You have now examples already of clubs investing and making important movements in the market and we are still nine matches away from the end of the season.
“We know that we are not going to be in the same league, in the same world, as clubs that are going to do completely different to us.
“But would I expect us not to do anything and to stay exactly with the same squad that we have in this moment? My answer is no.
“I expect us to do some little important things and if we do our little important things and we improve in two, three positions that we need to improve in the squad, I am completely open to the challenge.
“I am completely supportive to the board, to the owners.”
We probably need five or six players but there’s an obvious recognition that two or three is as good as we can do in the next window, and we might do well to get that many. But put a new right-back and holding midfielder in the team and get a striker on the bench and it would make a big difference.
What is unclear is whether Jose’s confidence in us being active is regarding free transfers and loans only, which could jeopardise the quality of the signings, or Daniel Levy putting his hand in his pocket to really improve us.
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The Spanish League is aiming to have stadiums at 50 per cent capacity in September and 100 per cent in January. Hopefully the downturn finance wise will not be as drastic as was envisioned earlier in the year.