Sevilla coach Juande Ramos has said he received a "dizzying" offer to take charge at Tottenham Hotspur but never considered accepting the approach from the Premier League club.
"They made an excellent, dizzying offer, but I'm under contract
to Sevilla and my decision is to fulfil it," Ramos told a news
conference today.
"There was not the slightest possibility that I would accept
it because I'm under contract. It did not interest me or the club.
"I wasn't in a meeting with anyone, what happened was that I
met with a person and that person went on to meet other people who
were surely Tottenham," Ramos said.
Ramos has been linked with a possible move to Spurs ever
since media reports suggested that manager Martin Jol no longer
enjoyed the confidence of club chairman Daniel Levy.
Speculation went into overdrive when the Seville sports paper
Estadio Deportivo published photographs of an alleged meeting
between Ramos and Spurs club secretary John Alexander at a hotel in
the Andalucian city.
Ramos has guided Sevilla to five trophies in the last two
seasons, including back-to-back Uefa Cups and the King's Cup.
His side crushed Real Madrid 5-3 on Sunday to complete a 6-3
aggregate win in the Spanish Super Cup and play AC Milan in the
European Super Cup next week.
They also have one foot in the Champions League group stage
after a 2-0 win over AEK Athens in first leg of their third
qualifying round tie.