Three senior Tottenham players have their eyes on the exit and are looking to move on, according to the Daily Mail.
The newspaper claim centre-back Toby Alderweireld, left-back Danny Rose and central midfielder Mousa Dembele are coming to the end of their Spurs careers as the club’s problems continue to mount.
In an analysis of the Tottenham mini-crisis, the Mail report Alderweireld has an exit clause in his contract that comes into effect next summer, Rose is holding out for a move to the north of England and Dembele is out of contract next summer.
OPINION
If you had polled Spurs fans at the start of the summer over whether they expected Alderweireld, Rose and Dembele to still be at the club on 1 September, most would have said ‘no’ or ‘probably not’. That they all stayed was seen as a victory for the team and environment assembled so shrewdly by Mauricio Pochettino as well as the sky-high valuations of chairman Daniel Levy and rival clubs unwilling to match them. Yet, there is a sense that the futures of the key trio are far from sorted. Alderweireld and Dembele have been regular starters this season, while Rose is also pushing hard for the left-back position and started the marquee fixtures against Liverpool and Manchester United. Of the three, Alderweireld has been the most effective and it was a surprise that he was left behind in London this week while Spurs tackled their Champions League opener against Inter Milan. A third consecutive defeat has prompted further question marks over the Belgium international’s future. Only newly agreed contracts for each of the three will make those go away.