Mauricio Pochettino expects progress in Tottenham's striker search "in the next few days" - and has hinted the club have looked to Europe.
Spurs have signed three defenders, Kieran Trippier, Toby Alderweireld and Kevin Wimmer, this summer but go into Saturday's Premier League opener at Manchester United with only Roberto Soldado and Emmanuel Adebayor as back-up for Harry Kane despite both players being available for transfer.
Spurs have been linked with the likes of Saido Berahino, Charlie Austin, Timo Werner and Clinton N'Jie, but Pochettino has hinted deals for the English duo are proving difficult.
"We have our target, I think in the next few days maybe something [will] happen," Pochettino said in his pre-match press conference on Friday.
"Maybe Liverpool tried to find their Harry Kane but we have Harry Kane," he said. "The people is very happy that our striker is Harry Kane. If you want to find players to compete with or improve Harry Kane it's not easy.
"My vision is [it's] better to sign a player from England, but it's true that the market in England is crazy, it's not easy. It's better to bring some players from England but it's not easy, maybe you need to bring some players from Europe."
Even if the search for a new striker drags on, Pochettino insists he already has enough players able to play up front for him not to worry.
"No worries about that and the people won't worry about the team because we have a lot of good players that can play like a striker," he added.
"We need to be [more] solid than last season because we scored a lot of goals but the problem was we conceded a lot of goals. If we are more solid maybe we can reduce the gap with the top four."