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Defoe wants to stay at Spurs
08/01/2008 07:44 - (SA)
London - England striker Jermain Defoe wants to remain at Tottenham Hotspur despite being told by manager Juande Ramos he can quit the English Premier League club.
"The manager has said I can leave if I want but I want to prove him wrong," Defoe told the Sun newspaper on Tuesday. "I want to stay here.
"He (Ramos) just said, 'You can leave if you want to'. Yet
I have no intentions of leaving this club because I love it
here."
The 25-year-old Defoe, one of four top strikers at Spurs
including Robbie Keane, Dimitar Berbatov and Darren Bent, has
been unable to claim a regular place in the starting line-up in
the last year and a half.
The former West Ham United forward said he could not sign a
new, long-term contract with the club unless Ramos started
playing him regularly.
"How can I be expected to stay for the next few years if I
am going to be on the bench all the time?", said Defoe.
"I don't think any player would accept that."
- Reuters
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