The arrival of Pedro Porro appears to have brought the best out of Emerson Royal who has produced two strong performances in big Tottenham games since they paid £45million for another right back on transfer deadline day.
'A healthy dispute,' says Royal. 'As we say in football, a good fight. I want to play. He's going to want to play too. The important thing is that we have players who are going to have this fight and the club does need that kind of players. We have some big competitions and we're going to need everybody.