{"id":626804,"date":"2023-08-20T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=626804"},"modified":"2023-08-20T05:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:16:07","slug":"hugo-lloris-turns-down-lazio-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/20\/hugo-lloris-turns-down-lazio-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fantastic Leader\u2019 for Tottenham Hotspur Decides Against Transfer to Serie A Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/Actualites\/Hugo-lloris-tottenham-s-eloigne-de-la-lazio-rome\/1414352\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">L<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8216;<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">equipe France<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0have reported that\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/18\/pierre-emile-hojbjerg-tottenham-hotspur-atletico-prime-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has made a last-minute about turn and blocked a move to Serie A side Lazio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">[metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/tottenham_hotspur&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lazio Target Hugo Lloris in Last Minute Change of Heart<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hugo Lloris Decides Against Switch to Serie A<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the signing of Guglielmo Vicario by Tottenham seeming to put an end to his 11-year career in North London, a deal with Lazio seemed to be very close, but the former French captain described as a &#8220;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c13k50p5nypo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">fantastic leader<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8221; has decided that he will stay where is &#8211; for now at least. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/19\/sergio-reguilon-targeted-by-real-sociedad\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a325 Million Tottenham Hotspur Defender Targeted by La Liga Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lloris has a year left on his current Spurs contract, and despite not featuring in new manager Ange Postecoglu\u2019s opening-day squad against Brentford, he does still hold the number 1 jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Agreement to Miss Pre-Season Tour<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There have been no reports of any animosity between Lloris and the Australian, and both agreed that he would not go on the club\u2019s pre-season tour. This led to speculation that he would move on to pastures new, and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/18\/lazio-target-hugo-lloris\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lazio<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, who, unlike Tottenham, will be playing in the Champions League this season, agreed a fee. It looked like the deal to Lazio was done &#8211; after Lloris found that he would not be guaranteed a starting berth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REVEALED - The Four Steps to Spurs Reaching European Football with Ange Postecoglou\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glAPw3kAAnQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One Year Left<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">L<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8216;<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">equipe also cites other teams holding an interest in the French shot-stopper, including from Saudi Arabia and also how he said in June that he would like to move on but did not rule out the possibility of seeing out his contract:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI have desires for other things, but I do not forget that I still have a year of contract and that in football, it is difficult to predict what will happen.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/15\/tottenham-will-have-more-outgoings\/\" target=\"_self\">Spurs Will \u2018Prioritise Outgoings\u2019 Before Pursuing \u2018Phenomenon\u2019 Harry Kane Replacement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tottenham are looking to get a number of wages off their payroll, but it now looks like they will have to wait a little longer to see if the exit of Lloris can be facilitated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Main Image Credit:\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=129680845\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Acabashi<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&#8216;equipe France\u00a0have reported that\u00a0Tottenham Hotspur\u00a0goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has made a last-minute about turn and blocked a move to Serie A side Lazio. [metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/tottenham_hotspur&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;] Lazio Target Hugo Lloris in Last Minute Change of Heart Hugo Lloris Decides Against Switch to Serie A With the signing of Guglielmo Vicario by Tottenham seeming to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":626758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,7188,5],"tags":[742,1061,7466],"class_list":["post-626804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tottenham","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-serie-a","tag-hugo-lloris","tag-lazio","tag-tottenham-hotspur-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}