Ange Postecoglou reveals Tottenham planning shift in transfer philosophy to strengthen squad | OneFootball

Spurs set to make shift towards more experienced players in upcoming windows

Tottenham are ready to “shift” their transfer policy to signing more experienced players, according to manager Ange Postecoglou.

Spurs signed four teenagers this summer in Archie Gray, Wilson Odobert, Lucas Bergvall and South Korean winger Min-hyeok Yang, who will join them from Gangwon FC next month.

Their other signing was 26-year-old striker Dominic Solanke, who joined from Bournemouth for a club-record fee of £65million.

“Yes, there were discussions,” said Postecoglou. “When a club like ours is allocating such a big resource, there’s always discussions because you can’t get that one wrong.

Postecoglou, whose side host Liverpool on Sunday, addressed what the club’s recruitment is likely to look like from now on.

He said: “Are we going to be a club to spend a billion pounds to buy ready-made players? No, we’re not. There are very few of those. There are ones that can do, but we’re not one of them.

“When you are paying for ready-made players, there’s a premium.

“I think it would have been one of those stories where I’ll be 70 years old and I’d be saying: ‘You know what, I could have signed Archie Gray’, and Archie Gray ends up being the player we know he’s going to be.

“Moving forward, we probably need to err on the side of getting a little bit more experience, just to help the group, because we’ve got very few at that kind of sweet spot in terms of ages.

“And we want to give the guys in their teens or early 20s the opportunity to keep growing. We need to make sure we put quality around them, so how we allocate the next resources may shift a little bit.”