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Tottenham great Hoddle urges Mourinho to consider goalkeeper signing

Tottenham great Glenn Hoddle says manager Jose Mourinho needs to sign a new goalkeeper.

Hoddle believes Hugo Lloris needs extra competition to lift his game.

"He is having a poor time at the moment, you have got to say," admitted Hoddle, speaking on BT Sport. "The two goals we have analysed there [vs Manchester City], he was at fault.

"Here [vs Liverpool] he is at fault. That has got to go out for a corner. He is on the back-foot all the time. Here he just gets outdone for power [vs Everton].

“He will be so disappointed that he has fallen backwards and it has gone straight through his hands.

"Now, that shows that the confidence levels are really low in the back-four. But also, if your goalkeeper is playing how he is at the moment... his intent is to not come and get balls, he is actually wanting to get further to his line and I think he is struggling at this moment in time.

"They have got nobody else to go in there and say 'right, I am going to put you under pressure for your place.'

“I don't think he [Mourinho] trusts Joe Hart to play in the big games."

When asked if he needs to buy a new keeper, Hoddle added: "Possibly. I would be looking at it, without any shadow of a doubt, unless Lloris gets back to the form that he can. At this moment in time there is a little bit of a pattern developing."

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