{"id":466706,"date":"2011-07-23T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/23\/%e2%80%98any-team-would-love-to-have-luka-modric-but-he%e2%80%99s-our-player%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-jermaine-jenas-hopeful-tottenham-can-keep-hold-of-chelsea-target\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T12:25:00","slug":"any-team-would-love-to-have-luka-modric-but-hes-our-player-jermaine-jenas-hopeful-tottenham-can-keep-hold-of-chelsea-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/23\/any-team-would-love-to-have-luka-modric-but-hes-our-player-jermaine-jenas-hopeful-tottenham-can-keep-hold-of-chelsea-target\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Any team would love to have Luka Modric but he\u2019s our player\u2019 \u2013 Jermaine Jenas hopeful Tottenham can keep hold of Chelsea target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"50.4490276959\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> midfielders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/2030\/jermaine-jenas\">Jermaine Jenas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/wales\/13913\/gareth-bale\">Gareth Bale<\/a> have revealed how important they feel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/croatia\/11993\/luka-modric\">Luka Modric<\/a> is to the club and how keen they are for the Croatian to remain at White Hart Lane.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"26\"><br \/>Modric has admitted he wants to leave Spurs and sign for Chelsea, who have subsequently had two bids turned down by the north Londoners, and his team-mates are in no doubt as to how important a player he is for Harry Redknapp&#8217;s men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny team would love to have Luka Modric but he\u2019s our player,\u201d said 28-year-old Jenas according to <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great playing with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s of fantastic ability but, as was said before, it\u2019s a sensitive subject which I have no control over as a person, or as a friend of Luka\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019d love to have him at the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham&#8217;s failure to qualify for next season&#8217;s Champions League has been cited as a reason why Modric wants to leave the club, but team-mate Gareth Bale is confident an improving Spurs side can finish in the top four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve probably got one of the strongest squads in the league and there\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t be at the top challenging as well as qualifying for the Champions League,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think every season every team is improving and that seems to be the normal thing at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/23\/2587190\/any-team-would-love-to-have-luka-modric-but-hes-our-player\" title=\"\u2018Any team would love to have Luka Modric but he\u2019s our player\u2019 \u2013 Jermaine Jenas hopeful Tottenham can keep hold of Chelsea target\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Any team would love to have Luka Modric but he\u2019s our player\u2019 \u2013 Jermaine Jenas hopeful Tottenham can keep hold of Chelsea target<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tottenham Hotspur midfielders Jermaine Jenas and Gareth Bale have revealed how important they feel Luka Modric is to the club and how keen they are for the Croatian to remain at White Hart Lane. Modric has admitted he wants to leave Spurs and sign for Chelsea, who have subsequently had two bids turned down by the north Londoners, and his team-mates are in no doubt as to how important a player he is for Harry Redknapp&#8217;s men. \u201cAny team would love to have Luka Modric but he\u2019s our player,\u201d said 28-year-old Jenas according to 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-466706","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>\u2018Any team would love to have Luka Modric but he\u2019s our player\u2019 \u2013 Jermaine Jenas hopeful Tottenham can keep hold of Chelsea target - 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\/23\/any-team-would-love-to-have-luka-modric-but-hes-our-player-jermaine-jenas-hopeful-tottenham-can-keep-hold-of-chelsea-target\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Any team would love to have Luka Modric but he\u2019s our player\u2019 \u2013 Jermaine Jenas hopeful Tottenham can keep hold of Chelsea target - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Tottenham Hotspur midfielders Jermaine Jenas and Gareth Bale have revealed how important they feel Luka Modric is to the club and how keen they are for the Croatian to remain at White Hart Lane. 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