Troy Deeney reveals he rejected Arsenal due to 'cojones' comments AFC
were also interested in Deeney that same summer, with Jose Mourinho eyeing the Hornets man up as a back-up for striker Harry Kane.
"My knee is swelling and you want to talk about getting rid of me now? Bearing in mind the last four months I haven’t been getting paid! Because I said to them to keep it, make sure the staff get paid. So now I was taking everything personally."Anyway, I settled down for a week, come back and they’re like, 'Will you speak to [Jose] Mourinho at Spurs?'
"He wanted me to come in at Spurs, but they’ve got that [Carlos] Vinicius guy [lined up], they’re toying with that idea," he said."They asked me to have a chat [with Mourinho], he wanted to know if I’d come in and be me. I said, 'listen, I’m 32, let’s have a good time innit, I’ll come.' It’s the only time I would have played in Europe.
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