Defoe hints at Spurs exit

Tottenham forward Jermain Defoe has revealed that he could leave Spurs at the end of the season in search of first team football.

The England international has spent last few years warming the bench at White Hart Lane and he admits he was on the verge of leaving last January.

“I didn’t want to leave. I don’t go thinking, ‘I want to go to this club or that club’,” Defoe said to The Mirror.

“But in January I just wasn’t playing enough and I did go to the manager and ask to go out on loan.

”He said to me, ‘I don’t want you to go on loan. We are trying to do something special here. Don’t go’. And so I stayed.”

Defoe is now disappointed that nothing seems to have changed as far as his status in the team is regarded.

“But still I haven’t had that run of games. It still feels like I will only get a game if someone is injured or suspended.

Nonetheless, the experienced forward admits he may be forced to finally leave White Hart Lane at the end of the season.

”I love the club. Everybody knows that. When I’m out and people ask whether I am leaving I always say no. But how can I stay somewhere that I don’t get the chance to play?”

Defoe is currently playing his fourth season at White Hart Lane following his return to the club from Portsmouth, where he has also played under Harry Redknapp.

Since his return to the club in January 2009, the 29-year-old has scored 35 goals in 88 Premier League games.