Tottenham's injury crisis has deepened after Ben Davies suffered a setback in training to potentially leave Ange Postecoglou without a fit centre-back for Sunday's visit of Wolves.
Spurs were already without Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Davies for Thursday's 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest, but issues were then compounded when Radu Dragusin limped off with an ankle problem.
Speaking about the need to enter into the January transfer market to alleviate some of the squad's lengthy issues, with up to nine players out injured and Djed Spence now suspended after getting sent off against Forest, Postecoglou said: "We're running a fine line.
"There's always been issues at different times but not to this extent. I think we've had close to pretty consistently 10 first-team players not available for a significant run of games. Definitely a first for me. We're in a tough spot and we have been for a while.
"We've been kind of getting through it for quite a while and keeping our fingers crossed we don't get any more issues.
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"[Transfer policy] can be disciplined, but we need a clear picture of where we're at. There is a need to reinforce if we can, it's not an easy time to do that in this window.
"The club is working hard behind the scenes to help the players we've got, who are giving everything in every game to try and get us through.
"We need to help some of these guys, because there's at least two or three who are feeling long-term injuries, so we're going to be short there. Others are coming back and need time to get up to speed. We're working hard to try to get reinforcements."
Asked if Yves Bissouma - who finished the Forest game at centre-back - could step in as an emergency defender against Wolves, he added: "Yves has never played there so I'm not sure why I would put him there. We'll see."
Guglielmo Vicario, Van de Ven, Romero, Davies, Spence, Mikey Moore, Wilson Odobert and Richarlison are confirmed absentees for Sunday's Premier League meeting.
Postecoglou added on Davies: "Unfortunately he had a setback in training, so he'll probably be out for a couple of weeks."