The Tottenham Hotspur head coach has been speaking about the remaining days of the winter transfer window and what the club will do
22:30, 30 Jan 2026Updated 22:49, 30 Jan 2026
Thomas Frank has been speaking about Tottenham’s potential signings in the winter transfer window
Thomas Frank has not ruled out Tottenham making a loan signing to bolster their injury-ravaged squad before the transfer window closes on Monday.
Spurs are dealing with eight long-term injuries as Frank has to do without summer signing Mohammed Kudus, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall, Dejan Kulusevski, James Maddison, Richarlison, Pedro Porro and Ben Davies while Micky Van de Ven is a doubt for Sunday’s Premier League clash against Manchester City.
In some Champions League games this season, with others ineligible to play, the Tottenham boss has only been able to call upon 11 senior outfield players. The Dane admitted that his squad is weaker now than when the winter transfer window opened thanks to those injuries and the £35million sale of Brennan Johnson to Crystal Palace.
“I think that’s fair. We lost six or seven players inside three weeks in January. That’s crazy, and some of them extremely unlucky, definitely Lucas and Ben with clear contact injuries. There were definitely too many. So yeah, of course it’s weaker than we started with on the first of January,” he said.
Despite Spurs sitting 14th in the Premier League and a weakened squad at his disposal to get the club out of trouble, the 52-year-old wants Tottenham to keep their nerve in the transfer market and only push the boat out for big players for the long-term and short term.
The north London club have so far brought in Conor Gallagher from Atletico Madrid for £34.6milion and 19-year-old left-back Souza from Santos for £13million.
“The best clubs, they take good, calm, sensible decisions, also when it’s a little bit windy, not going as well as we want it to, because that’s key for what we want to build. It’s absolutely key,” he said.
While Frank has ruled out making permanent panic signings for the short-term, with Tottenham not believed to be among those clubs after Jean-Philippe Mateta and Raheem Sterling, he did admit that loan signings would be an acceptable measure for the ailing squad.
“We’re still in the market, so it’s not that we are not trying, but it’s just that the short term also needs to be with a long-term view. That’s a big thing,” he said.
“[A loan] that’s different, doing a loan that fits and can help us. That’s different compared to buying a player for £30-£40million, that does he really improve us much more to what we’ve got now? That’s two different things.”
On whether such a loan move could be in the offing, the Spurs boss added: “I’m definitely not saying ‘no’ or that it can’t happen, but I think that if you look at the market, there’s not that much happened so far. When you look across it, there’s not that many players available.”
Despite some difficult atmospheres at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this season, in keeping with the team’s performances, Frank is expecting the fans to get behind Spurs in Sunday’s game against City.
“In the Dortmund game, you definitely felt you played at home. That was a fantastic feeling. The fans were fantastic throughout. It also went according to plan and it’s always a little bit easier so it’s more when there are setbacks in games when players and fans, all of us need to be united, together and pushing through that,” said the Dane.
“That’s the big thing and of course have confidence. We are playing at home in front of our fans. That should be an advantage which I think it is most of the time.”
Frank knows that first and foremost it is the team’s displays that must improve in the Premier League to match their Champions League exploits.
“For me, the most important thing is that we get even more consistent in the performances than the result and then the rest will take care of itself in terms of where we are ending,” he said.
“So we need to keep putting good performances together, that also needs to change to get those wins or consistent points. That creates momentum and then we can look back at the table in April and look at how it looks. If we do that, the rest will take care of itself.”