It has been a nightmare of a 2025/26 Premier League season for Tottenham Hotspur, and while their results in the Champions League have been enough to get Thomas Frank to unfairly scrape by with his job intact - largely on the basis of the weak quality of opposition Spurs have been fortunately matched up against in European competition - pretty much every neutral or even biased observer of this football club knows that something very concering is brewing at the N17.
Tottenham are not totally bereft of talent, but in certain key areas, they have very little of it in comparison to the other Big Six clubs in the Premier League. Worse yet, knowing their talent deficiencies and coaching issues, Spurs are about to emerge from the winter transfer window with nothing, showing even more complacency than they did under Daniel Levy.
In fact, this may have slipped past the attention of many people, but Tottenham Hotspur are actually weaker this winter, especially in the attack. Having sold Brennan Johnson to start the window while signing no wingers despite a huge injury to top man Mohammed Kudus, Spurs decided to make themselves thinner at striker, too.
Tottenham discarded a potential asset
No, Randal Kolo Muani won't be leaving to Juventus despite the transfer rumblings, but a different striker is going out on loan. Dane Scarlett is headed for Hibernian to join gem winger Mikey Moore in the Scottish Premier League
Technically, Tottenham won't miss Scarlett from a production standpoint, because, well, the young striker was never even utilized at all by manager Thomas Frank, which was one of the many issues Spurs supporters took umbrage with the Danish manager for.
Frank discarded Scarlett entirely even though his other striker options were struggling badly. Not until Dominic Solanke returned from a pesky foot injury to shine did Spurs even have a truly competent striker, and although they will have three strikers on the roster when Richarlison finally returns from his latest injury, they currently only have two in Solanke and Kolo Muani.
And neither Solanke nor Kolo Muani have exactly had a clean bill of health this season. So Spurs are removing a talented striker from their first team squad this winter despite already being needy in the position, having many injuries at the position, and never actually giving said young striker a chance to get his licks in as a potential solution to a team that sorely lacks goals.