{"id":427938,"date":"2011-05-21T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/21\/luka-modric-insists-he-is-not-thinking-about-leaving-tottenham\/"},"modified":"2011-05-21T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T17:24:00","slug":"luka-modric-insists-he-is-not-thinking-about-leaving-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/21\/luka-modric-insists-he-is-not-thinking-about-leaving-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Modric insists he is not thinking about leaving Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Jake Watson<\/h3>\n<h4>21 May 2011 18:24:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"97.3597532036\">\n<div readability=\"14.347826087\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Luka Modric, Tottenham Hotspur\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/131600\/131699_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Luka Modric, Tottenham Hotspur<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/croatia\/11993\/luka-modric\">Luka Modric<\/a> is happy at the club and believes Spurs can win the title next season with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/13420\/harry-redknapp\">Harry Redknapp<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Croatian is a key performer for Tottenham but has regularly been linked with a move away from the club although he is convinced he can achieve his ambitions at White Hart Lane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think so,\u201d Modric said according to a report in the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You can&#8217;t predict things in football because anything can happen. But I am enjoying it here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The fans are amazing, the club is amazing. There are Croatians here. I really do enjoy it here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;m not missing anything. I think this club can achieve a lot of great things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think we can challenge for the Premier League and the cups. Like I said, you never know what is going to happen. You can say you are staying and then you leave. But I am happy here and I am not thinking about leaving.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tottenham enjoyed a fine debut season in the Champions League, reaching the quarter-final stages and Modric says they will learn from this season&#8217;s mistakes to make sure they qualify for the competition next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt&#8217;s going to be hard,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;For the first time in the Champions League we did a great job and we were involved in some great games. It&#8217;s going to be hard watching the Champions League on TV next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We need to focus on qualifying for next season,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If it hadn&#8217;t been for the problems we had in the last two-and-a-half months we could have easily been in the top two or three in the Premier League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We had a bad run. It happens in football. You have bad days. But we had some good days, too. In the Premier League and the Champions League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I can&#8217;t explain what went wrong. We just couldn&#8217;t kill teams off. Maybe, because we had some injuries too, the players got tired from playing all those big games.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/21\/2496737\/luka-modric-insists-he-is-not-thinking-about-leaving\" title=\"Luka Modric insists he is not thinking about leaving Tottenham\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luka Modric insists he is not thinking about leaving Tottenham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jake Watson 21 May 2011 18:24:00 Luka Modric, Tottenham Hotspur Related Links Teams Players Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric is happy at the club and believes Spurs can win the title next season with Harry Redknapp . The Croatian is a key performer for Tottenham but has regularly been linked with a move away from the club although he is convinced he can achieve his ambitions at White Hart Lane. \u201cI think so,\u201d Modric said according to a report in the Daily Mail <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-427938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Luka Modric insists he is not thinking about leaving Tottenham - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/21\/luka-modric-insists-he-is-not-thinking-about-leaving-tottenham\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Luka Modric insists he is not thinking about leaving Tottenham - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Jake Watson 21 May 2011 18:24:00 Luka Modric, Tottenham Hotspur Related Links Teams Players Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric is happy at the club and believes Spurs can win the title next season with Harry Redknapp . 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