Despite a successful 15/16 season and entry into the Champions League on its way, there are some tweaks to be made at Tottenham.
Strength and depth are always seemingly the buzz words whenever a team is put together, and when a club is in Europe, it seems to take on more meaning
Mauricio Pochettino has built a very capable and exciting side at Tottenham and their performances at points last season blew away most of the opposition.
However, with Europe calling at the very highest level and another competitive year in the Premier League, Pochettino will be strengthening his squad, which is good news for the fans, but not for all of the players.
So here are four Spurs players that need to leave White Hart Lane to enable them to play more first team football next season…
Ryan Mason
Mason has struggled for playing time under Pochettino recently, and has seen himself go from the fringes of the England side to a bench warmer at White Hart Lane.
Mason has spent his entire career at Spurs and only broke into the first team the season before last after loan spells here and abroad. After his Premier League debut, the midfielder made 29 further starts and secured a five and a half year contract in 2015, but bad luck with injuries has seen the Spurs man on the bench more often.
It will be difficult to see him break into a side with Alli and Dembele playing so well, so boyhood club it might be, but it’s time to move on.
Nacer Chadli
‘Hit and miss’ is how you may describe Nacer Chadli’s career at Tottenham.
At times unstoppable, and at others unreliable, the Belgian often frustrates the faithful with his inconsistency. The 27-year-old almost always seems at his best when either off the bench or others are underperforming, but looks almost incapable of maintaining a high standard in a run of games.
He has scored 25 goals in 119 appearances in his three seasons in north London, but could be allowed to move on after falling down the pecking order last season.
Son Heung-Min
The South Korean forward has been linked with a move away from Spurs despite only joining them from Bayer Leverkusen in a £22m move last summer.
The Daily Telegraph claimed Spurs are ready to sell the striker after he managed just four Premier League goals in his debut season in England. The biggest problem will be to find a club willing to offer the £22m Tottenham paid for Son, following an unspectacular first season in English football that was disrupted by injury.
The 24 year old is still highly rated in Germany and Spurs will hope to attract the interest of Bundesliga clubs.
Alex Pritchard
The England Under-21 international spent the second half of last season on loan at West Brom, where he had very little playing time.
But that has not deterred Premier League clubs, as well as a host of Championship sides, from showing an interest in Pritchard this summer. Until he sustained an ankle injury last summer, Pritchard was on target to be an important back-up player in Pochettino’s squad.
It is now understood that Spurs are prepared to let Pritchard leave despite the fact that some at White Hart Lane even believed the 23-year-old could succeed Christian Eriksen in the first-team, were the Dane ever to leave Spurs.