**You have all your trophies and man of the match awards on show. Why is it important to have them somewhere you can see them?**
Every time I look at them I’m like, This is something I did all by myself. You want to get more and more, so it keeps pushing you. This is where all my years have gone, it’s what I’ve been working for – so they keep driving me forwards, hitting even more goals you want to reach in your career.
**Were you the kid who used to pretend to lift trophies in the mirror?**
Playing in the garden against yourself, you’d always be like, We’re six nil down, then you score seven times in a row and celebrate afterwards. That's the sort of thing I did, childhood dreams – hopefully I can make one happen next week.
**You wear number 37 for Spurs. Is there any meaning behind it?**
When I was 15 years old, my best friend Dimitri passed away. He was really sick and I always promised to make him proud. He was the person I always played football with so the day before he passed away, I promised him I was going to make sure I became a professional football player. When I made this beautiful transfer to Tottenham Hotspur, they said, “These are the numbers you can pick for your shirt.” Number 37 was there. It was \[Dimitri’s\] favourite number when he was younger, so straight away I knew 37 had to be my number here.
**The last time Spurs reached a European Cup final, chairman Daniel Levy gifted every player an engraved watch. Any sign of there being a repeat of that this year?**
In 2019 they were second, so it’s now up to us to make sure that we come first, and then we can see what might happen. I think I will treat myself with something special to always look at it and think, Ah, this is because I reached a European final in my career.
**If you don’t mind me saying, you have great teeth, so why the Invisaligns?**
\[_laughs_\] To be honest, there’s just one tooth at the bottom that I was getting pissed off at but my girlfriend, my family were always like, “Nah, people don't see it.” But when I watch interviews back, the only thing I focus on is that tooth. I went to the dentist, and he was like, “Nah, your teeth are really beautiful,” so I got Invisaligns to make sure that bottom tooth gets fixed.