Tottenham news: "Excited" Micky van de Ven reveals key reason behind new Spurs contract

Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven has signed a caller declaration to perpetrate his aboriginal to the northbound London club.

Spurs bolstered their cardinal antiaircraft options with the additions of Marcos Senesi and Jan Paul van Hecke earlier this summer.

Those caller signings came astatine a clip erstwhile Van de Ven was linked with a imaginable move to chap Premier League broadside Liverpool. 

However, it soon became wide that Spurs were determined to support Van de Ven's services arsenic they entered talks implicit a caller contract. 

Tottenham person present confirmed that the Dutchman has enactment pen to insubstantial connected a caller contract, though the nine person not specified the magnitude of the deal.

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Van de Ven "excited" astir Spurs future

The centre-back cited the club's "direction" arsenic 1 of the factors down his determination to widen his enactment successful the English capital.

"It's a peculiar infinitesimal to motion a caller woody and a arrogant infinitesimal for maine and my family," Van de Ven told Tottenham's authoritative website.

"I've ever loved Spurs, from the archetypal time I stepped successful here. I emotion the club, I emotion the fans and I've developed truly good here.

"It's wide the absorption the nine wants to spell in, and I privation to beryllium a portion of it. I'm excited astir what's to come."

De Zerbi, who is preparing for his archetypal play arsenic Tottenham boss, besides expressed his delight astatine keeping a subordinate of Van de Ven's calibre astatine the nine up of the caller season.

"Micky is 1 of the champion centre-backs successful Europe and an important subordinate for us," De Zerbi said.

"He has the qualities, mentality and ambition that we privation astatine Tottenham, and I americium precise blessed that helium has decided to proceed his travel with the club.

"We are gathering thing beardown here, and players similar Micky are an important portion of that future. His determination to motion a caller declaration shows his content successful what we are creating together."

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Van de Ven's value to Tottenham 

The Netherlands planetary has made 96 competitory appearances since joining from Wolfsburg successful the summertime of 2023.

The 25-year-old was a cardinal portion of the Tottenham broadside that lifted the Europa League trophy successful May 2025, played an important relation successful the club's palmy endurance bid past term, donning the captain's armband for the last six games of the play successful the lack of Cristian Romero.

Van de Ven volition commencement the caller play with a caller centre-back partner, with Romero expected to permission the club successful the adjacent future.

Senesi and Van de Ven's Netherlands teammate, Van Hecke, are the main contenders to regenerate Romero arsenic a regular starter successful the backline.