More top players may want to leave Spurs, says boss Mauricio Pochettino

Published on: 15 December 2017

Kyle Walker left Tottenham for Manchester City for an initial £45m in the summer

Mauricio Pochettino says more top players may want to leave Tottenham to win trophies, but he is not worried about the club's long-term plan.

On Saturday Spurs visit Premier League leaders Manchester City, who signed defender Kyle Walker from them last summer for an initial £45m.

But Walker is the only big name to leave Spurs in Pochettino's reign.

"It's human nature the players always want to improve and have different challenges and ideas," said Pochettino.

"Maybe some players are not agreed in this plan and this strategy and of course they are right to complain, to talk and in the end to want to move or have another challenge for different reasons.

"The most important thing is to talk, to design the plan for everyone and then be happy everyone because life is about enjoying and being happy."

Chairman Daniel Levy has committed most of Spurs' top players to new deals, despite the club's last trophy being the League Cup in 2007-08.

Tottenham sit fourth in the table heading into Saturday's game, but finished second last season and Pochettino says he is "thinking long-term".

"We're not worried," said the Argentine. "We know how our project is and who we are, and in the end we try to develop our project not only thinking about today and tomorrow, but thinking long-term.

"That is so important, because it's not only that we need to win today, tomorrow, after tomorrow.

"We need to win today, tomorrow and in one year and two, three, four years. That is the plan for Tottenham."

Source: bbc.com

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