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Spurs fans will love Alderweireld update

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The prospect of Toby Alderweireld ending his four-year spell at Tottenham this summer is enough to keep many fans awake at night.

The Belgium international’s central defensive partnership with Jan Vertonghen will go down as one of the best in the club’s history and certainly the outstanding one of the Premier League.

Alderweireld is out of contract in the summer of 2020 but a widely reported £25million release clause in his contract can be triggered in the forthcoming transfer window.

The general view is that the brilliant Belgian is far more likely to leave than he is to stay.

Alderweireld, who turned 30 earlier this month, has been one of Spurs’ star players this season after a difficult end to 2017-18 when he was frozen out of the side after contract talks with the club broke down.

Speaking ahead of his country’s European qualifiers against Russia and Cyprus, Alderweireld revealed his happiness at the club who signed him from Atletico Madrid in the summer of 2015.

He told Sky Sports News: “There’s a lot to play for this season. And in the end I have a year contract left at Spurs, so I don’t look further than this season.

“Other things I don’t know. I am very happy at Spurs, so we will see what the future brings.”

No Tottenham fans are in doubt about the excellence of Alderweireld, who is perhaps second only to Ledley King in terms of centre-backs to have represented the club in the Premier League era.

News he is content as Spurs prepare to open their spanking new stadium could be decisive. Can chairman Daniel Levy and the player’s camp not get round the negotiating table one more time to thrash out a new contract agreement?

In the meantime, Tottenham fans will all be going wild at the revelation that Alderweireld is “very happy” at the club.

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