Ange Postecoglou has admitted that he would like Tottenham to bring in a new attacker during this January transfer window amid links to PSG star Randal Kolo Muani.

Spurs are expected to be busy this month to bolster Postecoglou's threadbare squad after injuries, illness and suspension ravaged through it, with most recent games bringing double figures in terms of unavailable players. The club have already brought in goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky from Slavia Prague and are looking to add another couple of players at least to help in various areas of the squad.

Postecoglou was asked on Friday about links to 26-year-old versatile France international Muani but would only say that the club is working hard to bring in new players to help the current overplayed squad. However, when later speaking about Dominic Solanke facing his old club Liverpool he let it slip that he hopes another attacker will be helping the 27-year-old out in the "very near future".

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"[It not having worked at Liverpool] was what excited me about him. I knew I was going to get a player who had something to prove. I thought he felt, ‘ok the start of my career wasn’t great but I’ve worked my way back to a big club and now I want to show people I can play at this level and I can make an impact'," said Postecoglou.

"Look, he’s been unbelievable. To think of the way he’s led that front line pretty much on his own. We lost Richarlison all season and he had his own minor setbacks at the start of the season and I don’t even sub him off. I had to leave him out there and the manner in which he plays takes a big physical toll. It’s not like he’s one of these strikers who strolls about. He works his backside off for the team defensively, he leads the line and he’s scoring goals.

"He’s been brilliant for us. Hopefully in the very near future we get some help for him and then I think we’ll see him go to another level."

The Tottenham boss was picked up on that last line and asked whether that meant a new signing was incoming or that players were on their way back from injury?

He grinned before saying: "Both. It's hopefully what we can do but I wouldn't suggest tomorrow.

"Not a centre-forward but I think we need some help in the front half if we can get it. Obviously Wilson's still a fair way off, Richy's coming back but we've got to be really careful with him, we've got to try to keep him back. Again, it's got to be the right fit. Is that going to happen this window? I'm not sure but we know that all being well, in seven days, Richy's back and he'll definitely help Dom for sure."

Muani can play anywhere across the front line and is believed to be a player high on Tottenham's list of potential attacking additions, but they will face plenty of competition for his services despite falling out of favour at PSG. football.london reported this week that former Spurs managing director of football Fabio Paratici tried to sign the Frenchman for the north London club before his £74million move to Paris from Eintracht Frankfurt.

Solanke has certainly started his time at Tottenham well with 11 goals and five assists in 26 appearances so far since his own £65million move from Bournemouth, but would those numbers be even higher if the England international was more of a selfish striker than a willing runner and hold-up man for the team?

"His numbers would be better if we were better. You’ve got to cut these guys some slack," said Postecoglou. "They can’t do it all on their own. We’re struggling as a team for consistency, energy, cohesion - understandably so. You can’t expect strikers to go score hat-tricks on the back of that. Even at the weekend he scored an unbelievable goal, had a couple of headers where he was unlucky, he’s still getting in those areas. He’s doing the absolute maximum and his numbers will get better when we get better."

He added: "He’s becoming [a leader]. I think through this difficult process we’ve been in, there have been things that have emerged. Guys like Dom and Kulusevski have definitely become much more pivotal in what we do, with the way they play, and the way we tackled the tasks we’ve got at the moment.

"We’ve seen enormous growth in Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall, Djed Spence. There is some good stuff happening but it does get masked by the fact were not in a great space in terms of our results right now. We need to change that."

It was announced on Tuesday that Spurs had taken up the option to extend Son Heung-min's contract by another year until the summer of 2026. Postecoglou was asked whether it's important now for Tottenham to sort out the 32-year-old South Korean star's long-term future as well.

"Only if it’s important to Sonny as well. I think with all these kind of things, it has to be …. when you’ve got a player like Sonny who has such a standing at a club, and I know how highly the club regards him, and I know how much he loves the club … I just think it’ll all happen mutually," he said.

"It’s not something that needs to be forced one way or another. I don’t think the club will be in a position of trying to force anything or Sonny would try and force anything. There is enough respect and credit between both parties that those kind of discussions will happen naturally, and I think will come to a conclusion that everyone is happy with."

Son has to travel more than most each year with his international commitments and some have suggested that all those seasons of travelling around the world might have caught up with the forward's form and energy levels. This season has still brought seven goals and six assists but he has not hit the heights of previous campaigns with inconsistent displays.

When asked about his previous comparisons between Son's tough patch and Mohamed Salah's, Postecoglou fiercely defended his captain.

“You’ve always got to give context. Mo is an unbelievable player but he’s playing in a fantastic team that are flying at the moment. I’d hazard to say that if you put Sonny in Liverpool’s team, I reckon his goalscoring return would be decent," he said. "It’s hard for our players at the moment. Guys like Solanke and Kulusevski and Johnson, they’re trying awfully hard to be the best they can be, but there is context to that in that we are a team that is very disrupted, that is not playing with a fluency that it can play with.

"We’re asking players to play in positions that they are totally unfamiliar with. That has an effect. To me, it’s about context, but when we’re at our best, I still think you’ll see Sonny’s return, in terms of his ability to score goals and be really effective for us, I don’t think that’s diminished at all. Yeah, he’s going through a tough trot but we’re going through a tough trot. That goes hand in hand."

On the travelling being responsible, Postecoglou said: "No, the opposite. It's been unbelievable how he has been able to maintain that level of consistent performance, but I know everyone is focusing on it now but even last year his season was incredible for us. People need to have a little bit of context. Mo is a world class player but if you put him in our team now I'm not sure he'll have that same level of performance because of the situation we're in as a group," said the Australian.

"His attacking play, who do you need? You need a team that's kind of in good form creating opportunities, playing on the front foot, having a really solid foundation of a defence that is cohesive. None of these things exist at the moment. We're relying on individual moments and you can say the same about Dom, Kulusevski and Brennan because they are playing all the time. They're doing the best they can."

On those miles Son has racked up, Postecoglou added: "It's more of a testament to him in how he's been able to maintain such a high level of performance across many years.

"Obviously coming from that part of the world I can tell you it's the hardest trip you can do. Coming from Asia back into Europe on a consistent basis, I hate to know the kind of mileage he's put in through his career, but he's been able to maintain an unbelievable level of performance which is a testament to him as a person as much as a footballer.

"They are the things you take into mind because Sonny has found a way of maintaining an unbelievable standard. More concerning is how many players have not realised their potential because of similar circumstances."

Son and Salah will come face to face this week as Spurs look to get past Liverpool in the Carabao Cup semi-finals, with the first leg on Tuesday night.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy did not mention the only trophy won during his quarter century tenure at the helm - the 2008 League Cup win - among his top three achievements at the club during a fans' forum this year, but Postecoglou is hoping lifting a trophy would have an impact at Spurs.

"After sitting here for 18 months and [everyone] telling me what a trophy is going to do for this club, I kind of hope it has a little bit of an impact on everybody!" he said. "I don't get weighed down by those kinds of things in terms of allowing them to really impact what I think is important for this football club. That is we’re having a tough season. Our league form is really poor, we need to improve, but we are in a semi-final of a competition and with the group of players we’ve got at the moment, if we can achieve something where they are in their careers, I think it does set you up really well for what we’re trying to build here.

"I think it does. It’s not the be all and end all, as I’ve said many times, but if we get a final and happen to win a trophy, we’ll look back on this period of where we are, a small group of players having to rise above and beyond to get there, I think that will be as worthy of the achievement as actually winning it."

It was pointed out to Postecoglou that Jose Mourinho was sacked by Levy just days before a league cup final so would getting through these semi-finals actually give him any extra job security?

"So just drop out at the semi-final, you reckon?" he joked. "I don’t need greater security. Look, all I see is I’ve got a group of players who are giving absolutely everything they can. I see every person at this football club pushing hard every day, whether they are involved in football or not, to try and help us through this situation. I don’t need any more than that.

"It’s my responsibility, the results are on me. It’s my responsibility to change that, and if it doesn’t change, then, of course, I’m the one who should take whatever ramifications there are to it. But I don’t need any more security than seeing what I see every day that the club, everyone at the club is totally supportive of what we’re trying to do, trying to help me and trying to help us get through this. That’s all any manager needs, I’m not interested in security."

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