He added: “I was like, ‘wait a minute, Spurs want me? What? Not Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United?’.

“I was thinking all these stupid questions because I was thinking I was doing so well that a big team must come after me.

“When you’re young, you think you know everything. You think you have all the answers to all the questions, but you have nothing.

“Again, my intuition will start working the same, ‘Berbs now is the right time, difficult but we need to challenge ourselves’.

“In the end, their persistence was a big factor for me, and of course, meeting [manager] Martin Jol was the moment I knew I had to go there.