{"id":461009,"date":"2011-07-14T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/14\/michael-dawson-hoping-luka-modric-will-stay-at-tottenham-to-help-champions-league-push\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:44:00","slug":"michael-dawson-hoping-luka-modric-will-stay-at-tottenham-to-help-champions-league-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/michael-dawson-hoping-luka-modric-will-stay-at-tottenham-to-help-champions-league-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dawson hoping Luka Modric will stay at Tottenham to help Champions League push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By George Ankers<\/h3>\n<h4>14 Jul 2011 15:44:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"71.1630321911\">\n<div readability=\"14.8586387435\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL: Michael Dawson, Tottenham (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/120400\/120453_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL: Michael Dawson, Tottenham (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"39.9519950125\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/9517\/michael-dawson\">Michael Dawson<\/a> is hoping that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/croatia\/11993\/luka-modric\">Luka Modric<\/a> will stay at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a> this summer rather than move to rivals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The influential Croatian playmaker has publicly stated that he wants to be allowed to leave for Stamford Bridge but Spurs chairman Daniel Levy insists the sale will not happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time of year there are always going to be rumours and Luka&#8217;s been linked with Chelsea,\u201d club captain Dawson told <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a team&#8217;s point of view you want to keep your best players and the chairman has come out and said he is going to keep him so that is great for the football club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all friends with Luka, we have got great team spirit amongst the players and we want to keep that together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chairman has come out and said no-one is for sale so that&#8217;s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dawson also made it clear that Spurs will be aiming to break back into the Premier League top four this season, having missed out on Champions League qualification in 2010-11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are striving to be in top four next season and that is our aim,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did it two seasons ago, it was a fantastic campaign we had last year and unfortunately it is not to be this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim in the Premier League this year is to be in the top four again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the 27-year-old is anticipating a foray into the transfer market for manager Harry Redknapp this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always want to improve the squad, but if you look at the squad it&#8217;s a top, top squad,\u201d the former Nottingham Forest man added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always want to improve and freshen things up and I am sure the manager and chairman will be looking to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/14\/2574735\/michael-dawson-hoping-luka-modric-will-stay-at-tottenham-to-help-\" title=\"Michael Dawson hoping Luka Modric will stay at Tottenham to help Champions League push\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Dawson hoping Luka Modric will stay at Tottenham to help Champions League push<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By George Ankers 14 Jul 2011 15:44:00 EPL: Michael Dawson, Tottenham (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Michael Dawson is hoping that Luka Modric will stay at Tottenham this summer rather than move to rivals Chelsea . The influential Croatian playmaker has publicly stated that he wants to be allowed to leave for Stamford Bridge but Spurs chairman Daniel Levy insists the sale will not happen. \u201cThis time of year there are always going to be rumours and Luka&#8217;s been linked with Chelsea,\u201d club captain Dawson told Sky Sports News <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Dawson hoping Luka Modric will stay at Tottenham to help Champions League push - 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\/07\/14\/michael-dawson-hoping-luka-modric-will-stay-at-tottenham-to-help-champions-league-push\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Michael Dawson hoping Luka Modric will stay at Tottenham to help Champions League push - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By George Ankers 14 Jul 2011 15:44:00 EPL: Michael Dawson, Tottenham (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Michael Dawson is hoping that Luka Modric will stay at Tottenham this summer rather than move to rivals Chelsea . 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