Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has reiterated that Spurs need 'two to three transfer windows' in order to be competitive in the Premier League and in Europe.
Conte's side suffered their third defeat in five games – and their first at home this season – as they went down 2-1 to Newcastle on Sunday.
Spurs lost Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Cristian Romero to minor injuries ahead of the game, while Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison remain sidelined.
"I think my only worries in this moment is we have to try to keep the fingers crossed and don't have injuries because we are not a team with such a depth of squad to face competitions like the Premier League and Champions League," Conte told reporters after the match.
"But this is not something against the club," he added. "At the start of this season I said to you that we need to go step by step and have time and patience and have two or three transfer markets to bring this squad to be competitive to play in two competitions like Premier League and Champions League.
"We are playing massive games and there are players like Hojbjerg who has played every game and at the end there was an injury because he was tired. He was a risk and it's the same for Cuti [Romero] and for Richy, he played with the national team and then he came back.
"For Deki [Kulusevski], honestly for Deki our expectation was to have him recovered much earlier. Instead the situation was worse and we needed to wait. Lucas Moura started the season with this problem in his tendon and now he's trying to recover a good physical condition."
Spurs host Sporting CP in the Champions League on Wednesday.
