Ange Postecoglou provides Tottenham team news update as January transfer plans confirmed

Tottenham Hotspur caput manager Ange Postecoglou has been talking squad quality and transfers up of Thursday's Premier League contention with Nottingham Forest astatine the City Ground.

The Lilywhites volition quadrate up to the Champions League-chasing Tricky Trees - thriving nether the helping of ex-Spurs brag Nuno Espirito Santo - connected the backmost of their unforgettable 6-3 nonaccomplishment to Liverpool connected Sunday evening.

Having travel retired connected the incorrect extremity of that nine-goal spectacular, their 3rd nonaccomplishment from their past 4 top-flight matches, Tottenham volition beryllium spending Christmas Day successful the bottommost fractional of the Premier League rankings successful 11th place.

Spurs' slump has coincided with a enactment situation successful defence successful particular, arsenic good arsenic the lack of Rodrigo Bentancur, who was serving a seven-game suspension for an violative comment helium made implicit the summertime astir Son Heung-min and South Koreans.

However, Bentancur completed that lengthy prohibition successful the Liverpool nonaccomplishment and is eligible to marque his instrumentality connected Boxing Day, wherever Postecoglou besides expects Destiny Udogie to gain immoderate minutes aft helium was an unused substitute astatine the weekend.

Udogie, Bentancur disposable for Tottenham's clash with Forest

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Asked for a squad quality update successful his pre-game property conference, Postecoglou said: "From the game, arsenic acold arsenic I'm alert nary issues," arsenic quoted by football.london. "Destiny was connected the seat but wasn't 100% rather close and should beryllium right. Bentancur is disposable aft his suspension. That's benignant of it for now."

Tottenham should truthful beryllium moving without Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, Richarlison, Wilson Odobert, Mikey Moore, Guglielmo Vicario and Ben Davies erstwhile more, leaving Postecoglou down to the bare bones astatine the back.

Radu Dragusin is Spurs' lone acceptable elder centre-back close now, meaning that 18-year-old Archie Gray has had to deputise successful that unfamiliar relation successful beforehand of backup goalkeeper Fraser Forster, who has travel successful for disapproval recently.

Before shipping six to Liverpool past clip out, Forster fto successful 3 against Manchester United successful Spurs' EFL Cup quarter-final occurrence and was culpable for the Red Devils' archetypal 2 goals, his footwork letting him down connected some occasions.

Spurs had been tipped to motion a caller goalkeeper successful January earlier Forster's blunders, with Burnley's James Trafford, Sunderland's Anthony Patterson and Angers' Yahia Fofana each linked with moves to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Postecoglou confirms Spurs volition beryllium progressive successful January

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A abstracted study has claimed that Tottenham could besides people a 'dual payment deal' for Borussia Dortmund's Julian Brandt, and Postecoglou has confirmed that the nine volition beryllium progressive erstwhile the model reopens.

"I think, yeah, reinforcement. Like I said a portion ago, we've been planning," the Spurs brag added. "A batch of it was going to beryllium astir wherever we're astatine astir this time. Fair to accidental we're inactive a small spot abbreviated successful a mates of areas and we request to reinforce.

"But January's trickier successful presumption of what benignant of players you tin bring in. For us, perfect — for immoderate club, I conjecture — you privation to bring successful radical who are going to marque you stronger.

"I deliberation the information that, obviously, we're inactive successful the Carabao Cup semi-final, inactive got Europe, FA Cup, we're successful each the competitions, it's not similar our schedule's going to easiness up astatine immoderate stage. So I deliberation it makes sense. We volition effort and reenforce wherever and what fig we'll person to hold and see."

Tottenham volition beryllium bidding to marque it 7 consecutive Premier League wins implicit Forest successful Thursday's fixture, and not since 2003 person the Lilywhites mislaid a top-flight lucifer connected Boxing Day.

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