TT Critics: Tottenham hotspur will 'shut it up'- Eric Dier

Tottenham Hotspur plan to "shut up" their critics after becoming the first Premier League club not to sign a player during a summer window, Eric Dier has said.

Speaking after Spurs began the season with a 2-1 win at Newcastle on Saturday, Dier argued that few rivals had succeeded in strengthening their teams.

"It's a great challenge for us to shut everyone up, really," he said. "We're going to enjoy that challenge. We've got a fantastic squad here, fantastic players throughout the team in every position.

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"To strengthen it is not easy as well. You can look at all the other teams around us -- they might have signed players, but not many of those players that they've signed are better than the players they've already got.

"Obviously there are signings that have been made which are players of high quality, but in many cases I don't believe that they've signed players that are better than they already have."

England international Dier stressed that Spurs had "a fantastic group" that had been challenging for honours in the past three seasons.

"We all really enjoy training together, playing together, being with each other," he added. "The manager said it before -- we're in a fight but we're having to use different tools.