Mauricio Pochettino has said Christian Eriksen "has always been happy" at Tottenham Hotspur despite strong links to Real Madrid in the summer transfer window.
The Danish playmaker was linked with a move to the Santiago Bernabeu for most of the summer after he said in June he "would like to try something new," per Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet (h/t the Guardian's David Hytner).
Eventually, though, he remained in north London.
And Pochettino has now said Eriksen was never unhappy despite briefly being left out the first team at the beginning of the new season, per Husmukh Kerai of Sky Sports:
"He has always been happy here.