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Rob Guest

Jose Mourinho can send Premier League warning by transforming Tottenham with two vital additions

It's going to be a big summer for Tottenham as they look to bounce back following a hugely disappointing season in north London.

Reaching the Champions League final at the start of last June, the club spent big in the transfer market as Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso, Ryan Sessegnon and Jack Clarke arrived.

The Lilywhites just never kicked on to the next level and have instead fallen way behind the likes of Liverpool and Man City.

With Jose Mourinho replacing Mauricio Pochettino at the helm back in November, the team need to hope results go their way on the final day to ensure a Europa League place for next season.

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The club are going to have to spend very wisely in the transfer market this year with a holding midfielder and new striker needed on what is likely to be a limited budget.

However, BT Sport pundit Jermaine Jenas believes that the club should spend all the money they have available on a certain area of the pitch to help them reach their previous heights.

"I personally would be looking at two full-backs if I was Jose," he told football.london in an exclusive interview. "I think Ben Davies has been a brilliant player for the football club, very professional and is a player who should stay at the football club from a utility point of view as he can play in a three at the back and he can actually do a job if someone gets injured at left-back.

"They've lost so much of their dynamic element that they had at Tottenham. The amount of times I've seen them going through the lines and I look wide and no one is there to be seen, whether that is they've been told not to go forward.

"Serge Aurier has made too many mistakes, it's as simple as that. He makes too many mistakes, defensively he's a liability and going forward he's hit and miss.

"They need more security in the wider areas, something a little bit stronger and on the front foot to cause problems. At the minute they don't have that in those areas and that is where I'd start.

"If you look at them around Europe they have some of the best teams. Bayern Munich and the way they play football and you look at what Alphonso Davies is doing, look at what Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson do at Liverpool or Kyle Walker at Man City.

"The best teams at the minute build around their width and teams like to play with inverted forwards so they get their width from the full-backs.

"Spurs don't have anywhere near enough quality or the dynamic element that they need in the league right now. That's where I would start right now.

"If that's all the money I have to spend this summer, that's where I'd spend it because I'd be saying I've got Toby Alderweireld, Davinson Sanchez and Jan Vertonghen, give him at least until January or next year, and then I could start working on my defence.

"I do think that would change Tottenham and their style of play drastically if they get two new full-backs."

BT challenged the biggest brains in sports data to write the world’s first AI-driven script for a Premier League season, for its #Unscripted campaign. Check out how the report fared at btsport.com.

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