See he's the exception to the rule, i believe he is being genuine but dont doubt there will come a time where he will want to move on.
I remember the cunting rose took when he signed a new contract years back yet now those same fans expect loyalty from him........... funny ol' game.
He didn’t have to sign the contract though & could have spent his career clogging around the bottom of the PL or in the championship. He took his chance with Spurs, improved massively (& in no small part due to the coaching he received) & got the full backing of the fans.
He shat all over that by going to none other than the most universally loathed rag of them all & bitching about the club & the fans that made him.
I have no objection to him & his agent negotiating better terms for him. His performances up to his injury deserved that. But he’d signed another contract only a few months earlier, & was presumably happy at that time?
I’ve no objection to contract talks breaking down & the club/player agreeing that he will be sold.
What was utterly shit about his behaviour, was what he said, to whom, & when he said it.
This is the part that people aren’t forgetting too quickly. If he gives 100% (no doubt he will do that because he wants a place on the plane to Russia next summer) then he can do what the fuck he wants after that, as long as it suits the club.
He can either sign another contract extension with us (in which case he commits to the club & we can move on from this as a brainfart while he was injured & not thinking straight) or he can go wherever his heart takes him. It really doesn’t matter to me. There aren’t many of the current squad I could say that about. Whether that makes me a wally, I couldn’t really care.