Jose Mourinho has revealed that he will have "two new players" in his Tottenham squad at the end of the month.
Amid injuries to Hugo Lloris, Ben Davies, Danny Rose and Tanguy Ndombele, Spurs were dealt some more bad news this week following confirmation that both Harry Kane and Moussa Sissoko will not return to training until April as both require operations.
As many fans have called for Daniel Levy to give the boss the necessary funds to strengthen anyway due to their poor form this campaign, the calls only got louder following the Kane and Sissoko injury news.
Well, after the positive news on the injury front that Rose has this week returned to training from a calf issue, Mourinho has confirmed that both Lloris and Davies will also be back before the month is out.
"That's life, that's football," he said on Kane's hamstring injury. "Of course, bad news but we have to be positive and look to the good news.
"Good news is that before the end of the month we have two new players, Lloris and Ben Davies. This is good news.
"Lloris never played a game for me, Ben played one, and very, very well in a system we were trying to develop which was only possible with him because he's the one left-back that can play in that inside position because Danny Rose is a pure left-back, Jan Vertonghen is not a left-back and Ryan Sessegnon is learning how to be a left-back. So Ben is very important for our project. So it's good news.
"Of course Harry is important, irreplaceable. There's no player who can replace Hary Kane, and Moussa is playing so, so well with us. I think, since I arrived one of our best performers.
"It's not a couple of weeks until they're back. It's surgery, and a long, long time.
"I never spoke about Lloris in my first two months here and if you allow me, I would like not to speak about Harry Kane and Moussa Sissoko until they're back.
"Let's try to speak everything about them today because I know you're desperate to speak about them."
