It seems that the former Tottenham captain is set to stay put.
Tottenham have reopened contract talks with Jan Vertonghen and the central defender believes he can keep playing for the club for at least another two years.
Vertonghen is one of the trio of Spurs players, along with Christian Eriksen and Toby Alderweireld, who have entered the final 12 months of their deals.
Moussa Sissoko, who had just under two years remaining on his previous deal, last week signed a new four-year contract and Spurs are now in talks with Vertonghen.
Tottenham last year took up their option to extend Vertonghen’s contract by a single year through to the end of this campaign. It remains to be seen, however, whether the club are willing to offer the 32-year-old any more than another one-year extension, with the Belgian clearly believing he could go on at Spurs for longer.
Ahead of Tottenham’s Champions League Group B game against Bayern Munich on Tuesday night, Vertonghen said: “I’m very aware of my age. I feel fairly young and the contract situation doesn’t distract me.
“I want to play as many games as I can. I’m very ambitious and I feel I have got a couple of good years left in me. I hope I can help the team as long as I can. There is always some movement in contract talks everywhere – It’s my eighth season now, I had a great past, I’m feeling great at the moment in every single way here”, he told a news conference on the eve of Tuesday’s Champions League clash against Bayern Munich.
Vertonghen was left out of the Tottenham starting line-up at the beginning of the season with Maurcio Pochettino playing down reports of a rift between player and manager.
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