Tottenham head coach Jose Mourinho says the club will not panic buy in January, despite serious injuries to Harry Kane and Moussa Sissoko.
Striker Kane has been ruled out until April as he goes under the knife on a hamstring injury while midfielder Sissoko is set for a similar lay-off following knee surgery, leaving them short of quality ahead of a daunting Premier League game with Liverpool on Saturday.
Spurs have been linked with a host of strikers, and are understood to be interested in AC Milan’s Krzysztof Piatek, but Mourinho has warned they will only purchase in the current window if the right deal presents itself.
He said: “You know, it’s not me, I think even the coaches without injuries, even the coaches without problems in the squad, even the coaches with the best squads, even let’s say Jurgen (Klopp), even Jurgen with the best team, with amazing players, with amazing squads, he was happy to do a new player.
“So we are all the same, but the reality is that when I came here two months ago I knew the situation.
“I didn’t know of course that I was going to lose Harry and Moussa for so long, but I knew that the situation was about to try to get the best out of the players that we have, and that doesn’t change.
“So I’m focused on the work, I’m focused on the game tomorrow.
“If the boss arrives with a solution that can help us to face these difficult months that we are going to have ahead of us then so be it, then welcome.
“But if we don’t find the right solution, the right opportunity, then we are going to wait for the next summer to try to make the right decisions for the evolution of the team.
“So let’s wait, calm, but in this moment my focus is total on the players that we have available. That’s the way it is.”
Mourinho, who is used to doing his dealings in the summer transfer window, does not have a list of targets and says the club are likely to react if an opportunity comes their way.
“This isn’t about a list of players. January is a strange market, it’s not an easy market to be in,” he added.
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“It’s a market of opportunity, a market where an opportunity arise and you have the conditions to do it or not to do it. We have to be calm and not think about the market – let the market think about us.”