Ryan Mason has insisted he does not expect Tottenham to open their chequebook and sign any new players this month.
Spurs crashed out of the League Cup on Thursday night after losing a thrilling semi-final to Chelsea on penalties in a massive blow to hopes of ending their 11-year trophy drought.
Ex-Tottenham midfielder Mason has been working as a coach at the Spurs academy after his early retirement from football.
“Tottenham are not a team that will want to panic buy and get someone for the sake of the next two or three games,” Mason told the Sky Sports Debate programme (11:40) in the aftermath of their League Cup elimination. “They have a style and a philosophy and a way they want to operate.
“They’re going into a new stadium, which is massive for them, and it doesn’t look like, at this moment in time, that they’re going to get someone in.
“They’ve got a squad of players who the manager believes in, a youth system with players ready to go up. Immediate future? I’d be surprised if Tottenham do some business.”
OPINION
Mason is well placed to assess Spurs’ late-window transfer activity, given that he is at the club on a daily basis as he sets out on his path to get all his coaching badges. The popular former midfielder felt the pain of his former teammates on Sky Sports last night as he assessed the fall-out of a fixture in which Mauricio Pochettino’s side came from two goals down, fought bravely but once again fell short, this time through the brutal eliminator of a penalty shoot-out. Many Tottenham fans have given up hope of their club signing any players. They become the first in Premier League history to go an entire summer without any new arrivals, and there is now the prospect of another fallow window. Serious questions will need to be asked of the club’s ambitions and ability to finance their near-£1billion new stadium, which is becoming like an albatross around the neck of the cash-strapped board.