New Tottenham stadium 'on time' and Spurs stars will stay to play there, insists Daniel Levy

Ground force: Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and NFL chief Mark Waller at the new stadium yesterday
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Marco Giacomelli12 January 2018

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has reassured supporters that the club will move into their new stadium on time and with all their star players.

The first confirmed fixture at Spurs’ yet-to-be-named 61,559-seat new home was announced in Tottenham on Thursday — the NFL match between Oakland Raiders and Seattle Seahawks on October 14 — and afterwards Levy said the £800million stadium would be ready for the start of the 2018-19 Premier League season.

“Unless there are unforeseen circumstances, I am very confident and I wouldn’t be sitting here otherwise, saying that the season we are about to enter in August, we will be playing our games here from the start of next season,” Levy said.

Levy is determined to return home with the strongest possible playing squad and he ruled out selling stars such as Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Toby Alderweireld and Christian Eriksen this month or in the summer.

“I’m 100 per cent confident [that] every single player that we want to keep will be playing for Tottenham Hotspur next season,” he added. But the 54-year-old dampened expectations that Spurs would add to the squad this month.

He said: “[Manager] Mauricio Pochettino’s strategy has always been that if an opportunity arises that he thinks can improve the squad then we will need to look at it but January is always a very difficult window.”

Fifth-placed Tottenham host Everton at Wembley on Saturday, aiming to keep the pressure on the top four. There is no club that Everton’s Sam Allardyce has beaten more often as a manager, with 12 wins and as many defeats from 26 matches against Spurs, but the Londoners are unbeaten in the past 10 League games against the Toffees, a run dating back to April 2013. Spurs will be without Danny Rose, who is targeting a return from a knee problem at the end of the month, and Alderweireld (hamstring).

Kane has scored twice in the past two meetings with Everton and another brace will take him level with Teddy Sheringham as the club’s all-time leading Premier League goalscorer on 98.

Kane has urged Spurs, who have won five of the past seven League games, to continue their momentum tomorrow. “Earlier in the season we hit a few speed bumps and couldn’t get that momentum going, whereas in the previous two seasons we went on good winning streaks and gained momentum,” he said.

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