Tottenham's longest serving player to extend deal and take stint to 12 years

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Tottenham are ready to trigger an option to extend Ben Davies' contract by 12 months to keep the defender at the club for a 12th year.

Davies' current deal expires at the end of this season but the north Londoners have the option to tie him down for a further year, which they intend to take up, meaning the Welshman will continue playing at the club he signed for back in 2014.

The 31-year-old is Tottenham's longest-serving player and was the first signing of the Mauricio Pochettino tenure more than a decade ago. During that time he's played more than 330 times for the London outfit and has been part of some of their most successful periods of the modern era.

Davies is the only remaining Tottenham player who was part of the team who made the Champions League final in 2019 and the 31-year-old made his first Premier League start of the season in Saturday's 4-0 win at Manchester City.

He underlined his quality with a stellar performance and Ange Postecoglou described him as "outstanding". His other five starts this term have come in Europa League and domestic cups.

The Australian manager underlined Davies' quality recently with the defender poised for more involvement this week. He said: "I doubt anyone who has any sort of real passion for this football club or real passion for football wouldn't say that he'd be very highly respected within or outside of this football club.

"He's captain of his country. Testament to his ability is the fact that a number of coaches at this football club have all trusted him at different times. Whether that's my opinion or Jose [Mourinho], Antonio [Conte] or Mauricio or anyone else he's been managed by."

Spurs are also poised trigger a 12-month extension to keep Heung-min Son at the club, unless the South Korean signs a longer-term contract extension in the meantime with the striker still vital to their ambitions.

Tottenham, despite suffering injuries to some of their key players, remain firmly in the top four picture at this early stage of the season. Their win at the Etihad means they are just three points off Arsenal in fourth ahead of their next league outing against Fulham.

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