Journalist reveals why he is ‘surprised’ by Tottenham’s summer business

The Standard journalist Dan Kilpatrick is surprised that Tottenham did not do more this summer, questioning whether Ange Postecoglou actually got the squad overhaul he was looking for.

Tottenham made five signings

Dominic Solanke, Archie Gray, Wilson Odobert and Yang Min-Hyuk were signed by the North London club this summer while Lucas Bergvall, who was signed back in January, also linked up with the squad and Timo Werner arrived on loan again.

There was a mass exodus from Hotspur Way this summer as the Lilywhites had to cut short their wage bill, which was quite bloated coming into the window.

Eric Dier, Ivan Perisic, Ryan Sessegnon, Japhet Tanganga, Joe Rodon, Tanguy Ndombele, Troy Parrott, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Bryan Gil, Emerson Royal, Oliver Skipp, Manor Solomon and Giovani Lo Celso departed the club.

That reportedly brought the club’s net spend to around £70m according to Sky Sports, which was one of the highest in the Premier League.

Did Postecoglou get the signings he needed?

Kilpatrick felt that while Tottenham did do quite well to get so many players out of the door, he questioned if they made enough signings to satisfy Postecoglou.

The journalist told The Transfer Talk podcast: “Well, when you were asking which clubs you were surprised by earlier, I was going to bring up Spurs, because I was a little bit surprised by the window overall.

“I think if you go back to what Postecoglou was saying in April about the need for change, he kind of laid out his manifesto for a second season in the club, and talked about how drastically Spurs still needed to change their 11, change the way they worked, changed the culture of the club.

“So I wondered if it was going to be a real summer overhaul, and I think we did see that in one respect, in terms of the players they got out. You talked about Newcastle struggling to get players out, but Spurs did really well at finally offloading all this deadwood.”

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While I understand why some Spurs fans feel that the club could have done more this window, I do not see any obvious areas of weakness in the squad at the moment.

Some fight feel that the club should have signed a better winger than Wilson Odobert or a better striker than Dominic Solanke but Postecoglou made it clear that those were the players he desperately wanted.

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