Ange Postecoglou exclusive: Tottenham boss says signing centre-back is 'priority' in January transfer window
Just as Tottenham’s absentee list was beginning to clear up, Ange Postecoglou has a major headache on the horizon.
The Spurs boss will soon be without three key players - captain Heung-Min Son and midfielders Yves Bissouma and Pape Sarr - as they jet off to mid-season international tournaments.
Top scorer Son will be at the Asian Cup with South Korea, while Bissouma and Sarr will play for Mali and Senegal respectively at the Africa Cup of Nations. Spurs could be without the trio for all of January and potentially early February.
Their departures - combined with the injuries to James Maddison, Micky van de Ven and Rodrigo Bentancur - will once again leave Tottenham short. So is the January transfer window arriving at a good time for Postecoglou?
"Yeah, if we get the outcomes it will be," he exclusively tells Sky Sports. "But it's going to be a challenging month for us because you're talking about three players in Pape, Biss and Sonny who have been very important to what we're trying to build.
"We've got Maddison, Van de Ven and Rodrigo Bentancur - really significant players who are missing - so fingers crossed the guys we've got at the moment stay healthy through that period.
"It's going to be a challenging period and January is always a difficult transfer window to get things done particularly quickly, so I think we're preparing ourselves for that."
Postecoglou reveals he has been in contact with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy and the club's new technical director Johan Lange over the club's January plans.
"All of those things are in place," the Australian says. "We don't have daily meetings because that's their department. Johan's [Lange] got his department and he talks with Daniel [Levy] and all of the other key personnel, and
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