Lucas Moura admits he is unsure what will happen at the end of this season with Tottenham yet to take up the option to extend his contract.
The 30-year-old has played 213 games for Spurs since arriving from PSG in January 2018, with his dramatic hat-trick in the Champions League semi-final second leg against Ajax the undoubted highlight. However, with the Brazilian having suffered from inflammation in his tendon this season, he has not started a Premier League game for Antonio Conte this campaign.
Lucas has a deal until June 2023 with Tottenham and the club have an option to extend his deal by another 12 months if they wish to. The Brazilian told football.london last summer that he was unsure whether that option would be taken up and four months on, the winger appears to be no closer to knowing what his future holds.
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"Man, my plan, to be honest, I want to play football and I want to be in a club that allows me to play at a high level, play in a good league, play at a good level. That’s my plan. I still have a lot of firewood to burn, I’m 30 years old, so I’m very young," he told Flow Sport Club this week in a two-hour interview translated by Sports Witness.
"So my thought is to finish this season with Tottenham, try to win a title this season and, free of contract, sit down with my family and listen to the offers that will appear. That’s when you analyse everything: country, club, financial side. It’s analysing everything, and then make the best decision. That’s my thought. But now I’m very calm there."
On the option Spurs have to extend his deal, Lucas added: "If Tottenham want to renew, cool too, a club I like a lot, I’m adapted. Let’s see, let’s hear the renewal proposal. If they don’t want to, I’ll leave for free, and being free, of course, more proposals appear. So it’s a matter of analysing and seeing what we decide."
Lucas also praised Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy for the decisions he has taken over recent years to grow the size of the club.
"I think the management. It is clear what the president has done in recent years. Man, it’s very commendable. He brought Pochettino who stayed there for six years and changed the face of the team and also the players. That’s where management comes in," he said. "The guys they sign. They brought Harry Kane, Son, who today, man, what they did for the club, for sure, the club owes them a lot. Tottenham is what it is today thanks to these guys.
"Then I came later with my share of contribution and everything, but then you see, the investment that was made, the long-term planning, because the team has not won a title for a long time and even so the president kept the coaches and such. There he built the new stadium. The training centre there is something from another world. So, like, it’s management, right, it was earning more money, investing more, the team grew and today it is a great power."
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