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Spurs not willing to sell Modric at any price

ESPN staff
June 18, 2011
Tottenham insist none of their key players are for sale © PA Photos
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Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has issued an official statement stressing that Luka Modric will not be allowed to leave the club to join Chelsea.

Modric, 25, has been linked with a move away from White Hart Lane after the club failed to secure Champions League football for next season, and Chelsea are understood to have had a £22 million bid rejected.

Harry Redknapp dismissed that figure as "ridiculous", but Modric has now said that he wants to join Chelsea and added: "I have an arrangement with the chairman. When I signed my new contract, he said that, if another club came to sign me, they would consider the offer."

However, amid reports Chelsea have upped their bid to £25 million, Levy has now written on the club's official website to dismiss talk the Croatia midfielder could be allowed to depart.

The statement read: "I wish to make it absolutely clear, as I have said previously, that none of our key players will be sold this summer. We are building a team for the future to consistently play at the highest level and retaining quality players is crucial to that.

"In respect of Luka Modric, we are not prepared to sell, at any price, to Chelsea Football Club or any other club. We made our stance on this issue abundantly clear in writing to Chelsea. They chose to ignore it and then subsequently made the offer public.

"For the avoidance of any doubt, let me reiterate that we shall not enter into any negotiations whatsoever, with any club, regarding Luka. We now consider this matter closed."

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