Mauricio Pochettino admits more Tottenham stars may follow Kyle Walker by leaving to win trophies
MAURICIO POCHETTINO admits more of Tottenham's stars may look to follow Kyle Walker by leaving to win trophies.
But Poch says the club will only do business on their own terms, with Walker only allowed to join Manchester City for a mega £50million last summer.
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Walker has enjoyed a blistering start under Pep Guardiola.
City are 11 points clear at the top of the table ahead of Saturday's showdown with Spurs, and Walker has started all but two of their league games so far.
He has also more than doubled his wages to around £150,000 a week.
Poch said: "That is the problem.
"Maybe some players are not agreed in this plan and this strategy and of course they are right to complain, to talk and in the end to want to move or have another challenge for different reasons.
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"We are all different and we all have different challenges, motivations, roles in our life. That is normal.
"The most important thing is to talk, to design the plan for everyone and then be happy everyone because life is about enjoying and being happy."
Chairman Daniel Levy has managed to commit nearly all of the club's key players to long-term contracts and Walker is the only big name to have departed under Pochettino.
The Spurs boss added: "It's human nature that the players always want to improve and have different challenges and ideas.
"But I am not worried because in the end it's always three parts in all the situations in football - the players, the club that owns the players, and if another club want some players, and in the end it's to be agreed on different things and try to make everyone happy with the decision.
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"We're not worried. We know how our project is and who we are, and in the end we try to develop our project not only thinking about today and tomorrow, but thinking long-term.
"That is so important, because it's not only that we need to win today, tomorrow, after tomorrow. We need to win today, tomorrow and in one year and two, three, four years. That is the plan for Tottenham."