Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Christian Eriksen should want to stay, admits Daniel Levy

The 27-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to Real Madrid and Manchester United with both sides keen on a move. But with interest from in and around England, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy went on to admit that he and the club will not offer a contract extension to anybody who doesn’t want to stay at the club and players who are looking to force their way out of the team.

“My view is really simple. For a player to sign a new contract, not only have the conditions got to be right but the player has got to want to do it. It is up to those players whether they want to stay at Tottenham and we’ll see. I don’t want to comment on ­individual players too much. I actually think it is unfair. Every circumstance is different. There may be a player who wants to stay, there may be a player we don’t want to stay,” Levy told Standard Sport.

“Firstly, there’s no guarantee to finish in the top four. Nobody has the divine right to be there. We all come back and watch football all the time because it is so competitive. Wouldn’t it be boring if we were guaranteed to be there? Obviously, we aspire to be there every season but there is no guarantee whatever we do. When we are there, we want to go as far as ­possible in the various competitions but sometimes it is the luck of the draw. We just want to go as far as we can,” added Levy.