12-Jun-2020 20:00:02 | The Guardian
Goalkeeper stays in contact with Mauricio Pochettino and believes Spurs’ difficult season is due to exceeding potential in recent times
Few footballers do melancholy quite like Hugo Lloris. To him, the highs are but fleeting, including the ultimate one of lifting the 2018 World Cup as the captain of France. “I don’t want to say that I’ve forgotten about it but, for me, it belongs in the past,” he said in February 2019.
The Tottenham goalkeeper and captain gave his World Cup replica to Mauricio Pochettino, his club manager at the time, who kept it on display in his office. So where is the trophy now Pochettino has left Spurs and been replaced by José Mourinho? “I think it’s somewhere in the building,” Lloris replies. Wait, what?
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