Julen lopetegui has stressed on several occasions that he is very comfortable in the Seville, where he has found a great club that offers him the possibility of fighting for great heights and with which he has managed to lift a European title, the sixth Europa League of the entity's history.
A few days ago in England the possibility that the Gipuzkoan coach would undertake an adventure in the Premier League, specifically in the Tottenham. After the departure of José Mourinho and the interim option of Ryan Mason, the 'Spurs' were looking for an important figure for their bench and the 'Sunday Times' pointed out that one of the objectives was Lopetegui, along with the dream of also returning to lead Mauricio Pochettino at White Hart Lane. Finally it seems that the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca, who Lopetegui faced in the Europa League in the Sevilla-Roma duel in the round of 16, will be Tottenham's coach.
But the journalist Duncam Castles, of the “Sunday Times”, now assures that the negotiations existed and that they were well advanced, although Lopetegui refused to go to London for “family reasons” despite the fact that the offer was very powerful economically. “Tottenham came a long way with Julen Lopetegui, Sevilla coach, with whom they had agreed terms with Sevilla to pay the clause of their contract. For personal reasons related to family matters, he dismissed it, “Castles insists in a podcast about the transfer market.
Lopetegui recently renewed his contract with Sevilla until 2024 and, according to the British press, the penalty for his departure that appears in it is 5 million euros.