Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has acknowledged transfer rumours linking him with a return to his former club Nice.
Nice were the Frenchman’s boyhood club where he spent three years in the first team before moving to Lyon, from where we bought him in 2012.
Aside from the few weeks that it took him to usurp Brad Friedel upon his arrival, Lloris has been our undisputed number one since and became captain for the start of the 2015-16 season, replacing Younes Kaboul.
However a sharp decline in form over the last 18 months has seen Spurs start to plan for life after Lloris. Ajax’s Andre Onana is believed to be our first choice for the 33-year-old’s eventual successor, via The Mirror.
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And it seems as though Lloris is thinking in the same way, based on his comments in an interview with Nice-Matin, in which he admitted that he still has “personal goals” to achieve before the end of his career.
“I follow the news of the club a lot because I am very attached to it, he told Nice-Matin. “I still have personal goals. For the moment, I am focused on Tottenham.”
I think we’ll have one more season of Hugo before he enjoys a swansong back in the South of France or in the MLS.