Post by Phil on Apr 22, 2015 16:43:36 GMT 7
Hugo Lloris ready to leave Tottenham to fulfil Champions League dream
• Hugo Lloris frustrated at failure to play at European elite level with Spurs
• Goalkeeper could be candidate to replace Manchester United’s David de Gea
Hugo Lloris will consider his future at the end of the season if and more likely when Tottenham Hotspur do not qualify for the Champions League. The France goalkeeper signed a five-year contract last July but he has long made it plain to the club’s chairman, Daniel Levy, that he wants to play in the Champions League.
Tottenham even took Michel Vorm from Swansea City two weeks after Lloris had re-signed in a move that was seen as a shrewd contingency on Levy’s part in the event of Lloris pushing to join a Champions League club. Vorm, 31, was Holland’s third-choice goalkeeper at the World Cup in Brazil and cost £4.5m.
Lloris is frustrated and finds his career approaching a crossroads. He joined from Lyon in 2012 for an initial £8m and he hoped to play with Spurs in the Champions League. It has not happened and Lloris knows there is the strong possibility that it will not do so next season either. Tottenham trail fourth-placed Manchester City by seven points and have a hugely inferior goal difference, with five matches to play.
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www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/21/hugo-lloris-tottenham-champions-league
• Hugo Lloris frustrated at failure to play at European elite level with Spurs
• Goalkeeper could be candidate to replace Manchester United’s David de Gea
Hugo Lloris will consider his future at the end of the season if and more likely when Tottenham Hotspur do not qualify for the Champions League. The France goalkeeper signed a five-year contract last July but he has long made it plain to the club’s chairman, Daniel Levy, that he wants to play in the Champions League.
Tottenham even took Michel Vorm from Swansea City two weeks after Lloris had re-signed in a move that was seen as a shrewd contingency on Levy’s part in the event of Lloris pushing to join a Champions League club. Vorm, 31, was Holland’s third-choice goalkeeper at the World Cup in Brazil and cost £4.5m.
Lloris is frustrated and finds his career approaching a crossroads. He joined from Lyon in 2012 for an initial £8m and he hoped to play with Spurs in the Champions League. It has not happened and Lloris knows there is the strong possibility that it will not do so next season either. Tottenham trail fourth-placed Manchester City by seven points and have a hugely inferior goal difference, with five matches to play.
Football transfer rumours: Asmir Begovic to leave Stoke for Real Madrid?
Read more
www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/21/hugo-lloris-tottenham-champions-league
