{"id":3485,"date":"2021-12-22T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/12\/22\/revealed-the-two-positions-tottenham-are-looking-to-target-in-january\/"},"modified":"2021-12-22T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:02:41","slug":"revealed-the-two-positions-tottenham-are-looking-to-target-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2021\/12\/22\/revealed-the-two-positions-tottenham-are-looking-to-target-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The two positions Tottenham are looking to target in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An insight into Tottenham\u2019s January plans has been provided on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2>Conte takes charge<\/h2>\n<p>Antonio Conte took charge of Tottenham last month and has since improved the club\u2019s form a fair bit.<\/p>\n<p>In the Premier League, Conte has taken charge of five games so far, drawing with Everton, beating Leeds, Brentford and Norwich before then playing out an enthralling 2-2 draw with Liverpool this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This has seen Spurs move up to 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the Premier League with the Lilywhites having at least two games in hand on all of the teams above them which, if they win them all, could potentially see them move up to 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the table.<\/p>\n<p>However, though Spurs have had a solid start to life under Conte, the former Juventus man is no doubt aware that this side is by no means the finished article.<\/p>\n<h2>Tottenham looking to strengthen in two areas<\/h2>\n<p>And, with the January window now less than two weeks away, Conte is set to be handed his first chance to put his own stamp on this squad.<\/p>\n<p>But where does the Italian want to improve?<\/p>\n<p>The centre-back area could probably do with some more quality, as could both full-back spots.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the Lilywhites are once again coping without any sort of natural back-up to Harry Kane, which is an issue that could probably do with being addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, The Athletic have provided an insight into the areas Spurs will target next month, stating:<\/p>\n<p><em>Spurs are looking to sign two players \u2014 an attacking right wing-back and a forward \u2014 but their ability to bring in the right players will be partially connected to which ones they can get rid of. Spurs would be interested in moving on\u00a0Dele Alli\u00a0and possibly\u00a0Matt Doherty, and there are others they would listen to offers for.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2013 Dele future<br \/>\n\u2013 Targetting a RWB and striker<br \/>\n\u2013 Doherty can leave <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#THFC<\/a> transfer mailbag \u2013 with \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPittBrooke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JackPittBrooke<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yp28fpTbXM\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/Yp28fpTbXM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Eccleshare (@CDEccleshare) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDEccleshare\/status\/1473568295240486913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/football-betting-tips\/match-previews\/football-predictions\/tottenham-hotspur-vs-west-ham-united-betting-tips-carabao-cup-preview\/\">Tottenham Hotspur vs West Ham United betting tips: Carabao Cup quarter-final preview, predictions and odds<\/a><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/football-betting-tips\/match-previews\/football-predictions\/brentford-vs-chelsea-betting-tips-carabao-cup-preview\/\">Brentford vs Chelsea betting tips: Carabao Cup quarter-final preview, predictions and odds<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insight into Tottenham\u2019s January plans has been provided on Wednesday. Conte takes charge Antonio Conte took charge of Tottenham last month and has since improved the club\u2019s form a fair bit. In the Premier League, Conte has taken charge of five games so far, drawing with Everton, beating Leeds, Brentford and Norwich before then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}