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Not necessarily. As mentioned previously in this thread, it would be useful to find players we can sign now but who could join us at a later date. Similar to what we did with Dele and Liverpool did with Keita. Here's what Pochettino said earlier this month:
"It’s so important today to identify your targets for the summer. If not and we wait until May and, before we sign, we sell, it’s so difficult to bring in players that can help.”
"The Dele signing is a very good example of the need to anticipate. We cannot be reactive because if we are, we are going to lose. If we are going to compete in the same period with City, United, Liverpool or Chelsea, then we are going to struggle to bring in the players we want. Maybe we need to sign the player in January and they can join in the summer."
“We tried to make early signings last summer but we could not, for different reasons. Now, we are going to try again to do things early. If we cannot again, I am going to say: ‘Come on, we could not again!’”
That's not my point.