Damien Comolli has defended Tottenham’s lack of signings this summer, telling talkSPORT it’s ‘an almost impossible task’ to improve their young and talented first XI.

Last season’s Premier League runners-up are yet to spend a penny in the summer transfer window, despite banking over £70million by selling the likes of Kyle Walker, Nabil Bentaleb and Federico Fazio.

Many have questioned why Spurs have been so slow in building on their impressive squad this summer, with many fans also voicing their frustrations while all their closest rivals have strengthened and spent millions in the market.

But former director of football Comolli believes manager Mauricio Pochettino and chairman Daniel Levy deserve a lot of credit for building such a special squad, saying that it was always going to an extremely difficult task to make them better.

“I think Tottenham deserve so much respect for what they’ve achieved,” the Frenchman told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.

“Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino are working with less money than everybody else and working on a lot smaller wage bill than any of the Premier League’s top five – we need to give them some credit.

“I’m sure they know exactly where they’re going [in the transfer market].

“The thing with Spurs which is extremely difficult for them to deal with and is probably very frustrating, is that if you take that first XI, it’s so difficult to make it better because every player is fantastic, every player is young…

“There’s was the second youngest team in Europe among the top five teams last season and yet they finished second in the Premier League which is the most competitive league.

“So to reinforce that team with players who are as good or better than those players, and as young too, it’s almost an impossible task.

“They’re probably looking for young and up-and-coming players to come an compliment that team, probably two or three and I’m sure they’ll achieve that in the end.

“It must be so difficult to find reinforcements for that team.

“Pound-for-pound, every player could play for almost every club in the world, that’s how good that starting XI is.”