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Lamela is not quite the captain’s right-hand man – he offers a boyish smile at the thought of being one of the senior men at Spurs these days – but he has had an important role to play in helping fellow Argentine Giovani Lo Celso settle at the club this season.
“We are together almost all the time,” Lamela reveals.
“If not here at the training ground, at home together before this lockdown happened. I tried to help him at the beginning but, to be honest, I can see now that he is doing very well. He is very comfortable here. I am very happy for him that he is enjoying the team.”
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Lo Celso has been winning admirers with his performances, but will he be able to fill the void left by Eriksen? Lamela is optimistic about his future.
“He gives us a lot of things on the pitch,” he explains. “He has so much potential and he is young as well. I hope for him and the club that he can play a long time here.”
It was Eriksen’s departure in January that confirmed Lamela’s status as the last of the so-called magnificent seven. How long his own Tottenham journey will continue remains to be seen but there is work to do first – an ambition still left to fulfil.
The 12-year-old Lamela, already a prodigy, was once asked his plans for his future and stated his desire to win the World Cup for Argentina like Diego Maradona before him.
Sixteen years on, the same question is put to him and he repeats the claim.
“That has not changed,” he says confidently.
But there is an addendum now. An additional ambition. One that has been building up through these past seven years but remains, as yet, unfulfilled.
“I would also like to win something with Tottenham,” he adds. “I have had so many years here and I think the team, the players and the fans deserve something more.”
Sourse: skysports.com
