Pochettino admits to striker problem

And despite Hawthorns chairman Jeremy Peace insisting the 22 year-old is not for sale Spurs are ready to test West Brom’s resolve again with a second bid.

“It is obvious we need to add some more (players) in our offensive positions”.

“It wasn’t our problem to score, it was conceding goals, and we need to improve that this season“.

Berahino might be a few rungs below the ex-Barcelona attacker in terms of what he brings to the table, right now – but the Burundi born striker has the capacity to match Chelsea’s £21m capture for impact in a new environment.

And a day earlier the London Evening Standard had reported that N’Jie had been in Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday and that Tottenham were looking to train with him over the next couple of days.

Tottenham will also be seeking their first win of the season after losing their opening fixture 1-0 to Manchester United and drawing 2-2 at home to Stoke City on Saturday.

“Always we talk about 10 games”, added the former Southampton and Espanyol boss. “Our situation is good“.

And he said: “I made that decision from the start of pre-season as we needed to give the option to Eric to play“.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has told Juventus to forget signing Christian Eriksen or Erik Lamela because it would scupper his ambition of taking the Premier League title to White Hart Lane.

“Italian football is very tactical and very fast, they have everything”, he said. They fight and the referees sometimes don’t whistle. We can play in a different system, I think we have players for it. And in different games we can use different set-ups.

Not really. On a whole Tottenham’s player ratings will definitely improve due to the number of young players who broke into the first team last season (I’m looking at you Ryan Mason).

“My focus is working this week to do better than today”.