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Paul Robinson has urged Tottenham Hotspur to keep Christian Eriksen at the club, per beIN Sports.
What’s he said?
Eriksen’s current contract expires at the end of next season and rumours continue to swirl surrounding his future.
The Denmark international has been linked with Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Eriksen issued Spurs another reminder of his quality on Tuesday night, as he scored a superb long-range winner against Brighton to give the club all three points.
That result heightened the chances of Spurs finishing in the top four this season.
But Robinson insists that, unless they tie Eriksen down, they may be forced to cash in this summer, instead of letting him leave on a free at the end of next season.
“You can’t let a player of his quality go into the last year of his contract because come January he can speak to other teams,” Robinson told beIn Sport.
“There must be something amiss. They’re obviously talking. Tottenham won’t want him to leave at all. If they come to a point where negotiations have broken down that far then they may have to sell him and cash in.
“They will make the top four. But a player of his level of ability and his ambitions, they’ll be no shortage of suitors. He’d definitely want to play in the Champions League. When Real Madrid come knocking, they don’t come knocking twice and as Tottenham have proved in the past they are willing to sell players and re-invest in the team.
“If it comes to a point where they can’t agree on a contract with him, there’s going to have to be an executive business decision made where we can’t allow a player of his quality leave for nothing, so they would have to sell him.”
An intriguing possibility
Will Eriksen ever get another chance to move to Real?
Robinson is right to insist that Real “don’t come knocking twice” and, after a particularly up-and-down season, Spurs might be well advised to cash in.
Eriksen’s goal against Brighton came after a performance of running down blind alleys and losing the ball.
That has characterised the majority of his Spurs career and he may not actually be good enough to play at the Bernabeu – a stadium which has chewed up Gareth Bale and is now threatening to spit him back out.
Eriksen may well have found his level at Spurs and a massive offer from Real should absolutely be considered.
Indeed, it may not be the end of the world if a bid is accepted.