Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has stated that the club must fill their squad gaps.
The Australian is adamant about taking the team to another level in the next few years.
While Spurs are likely to play Europa League football next term, Postecoglou knows that Champions League qualification and eventually title challenges are being demanded by fans.
"Yeah, and it was never going to happen in two transfer windows," he stated in an interview with Optus Sport.
"What you've got to remember is, when I came in last year, the team had finished eighth last season but it wasn't eighth of a team that was on the climb.
"It was eighth for a team that was kind of going in the other direction, because a lot of the players were getting to an age where it was getting time for the next challenge. And then you've lost your best player from that as well.
"So you've got eighth, decline, you lose your best player and, by the way, we want you to totally change the way we play from this [defensive football] to the other end of the spectrum. So all those kind of factors I knew was never going to get done in two transfer windows, this process of building a squad. Even the starting XI, we're in the infancy of.
"Now I think we've done really well in the transfer windows so far which means we're probably further ahead than I thought we'd be in terms of the squad. Because when I look at [Guglielmo] Vicario, [Micky] Van de Ven, [Destiny] Udogie, Pape Sarr, Brennan Johnson – guys who are kind of in their first year of real Premier League at this club, all 20/21/22, I think [wow]. Apart from Vicario, but he's still fairly inexperienced for a goalkeeper.
"I think I've got the formation there of being further along, but we need to start filling the gaps further up in terms of our starting XI but also, like you said, more importantly for our squad."
