Looking forward to January, we know EL squad is full ....... and that means we need to drop one of existing EL players to include Spence in EL squad. And maximum number of changes is 2 players under uefa rules so not a lot of room for change.
The PL squad is under different rules with more opportunities - and the current squad can be categorised as :
GK -Vicario/Forster/Austin
RB - Porro (and Spence (also LB) in PL squad)
CB - Romero/Van De Ven/ Dragusin
LB - Udogie/Davies (also LCB)
CM1 - Bissouma, Gray
CM2 - Bentancur/Sarr
CM3 - Maddison/Bergvall
RW - Kulusevski/Johnson/ Moore
LW - Son/Werner(loan), Odobert
CF – Solanke/Richarlison/ Lankshear
Analysis under PL definitions :
Home Grown - Forster, Austin, Spence, Davies, Maddison, Johnson, Solanke (7 players)
Overseas - Vicario, Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Dragusin, Udogie, Bissouma, Bentancur, Sarr, Kulusevski, Son, Werner, Richarlison (13 players)
U21's - Gray, Bergvall, Odobert, Moore, Lankshear (we can have unlimited numbers of u21's)
So we do have scope within PL squad to bring in a couple of new 'senior' players - but whilst ATM one player needs to be left out of EL squad to register Spence, then increasing the PL squad by (say) 2 players will mean 3 players in PL squad cannot be registered in EL squad, So it might be a problem to resolve in summer for 24/25 uefa squad to be 'right sized' with enough players covering each position 0 two problems being brought in can be catered for, more might be a problem which we need to avoid. Probably best to think of it as bringing forward a couple of purchases from Summer transfer window - and tbh, there are rarely more than one or two players who will improve Spurs who we want who are available in January,
Interesting to see what Ange/Lange decide to do in January - maximum of 7 games left in EL after January, probably more than 20 games to play in Pl and domestic cups after January.
